Leaves synanthus, 2-10.5 x 0.7-2 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, erosedentate. Scape (0.5-) 10-16 cm long, up to 24 cm in fruit, 2-8 flowered. Bracts 4.5-7 mm long, base saccate. Calyx (4-5-) 6.5 mm long; lobes 2-2.5 mm long, acute. Corolla tube 6.5-8 mm long; limb 10-12 mm broad, lobes 4.5-6 x 3.5-4 mm, bilobed, throat yellowish, barely annulate. Style 5 mm long (in pin-eyed flowers). Capsule barely exceeding the calyx.

Fl. Per.: June-August.

Holotype: Schugnan, in valle fluvii Gunt, B. & O. Fedtsch. in 1901 (LE).

Distribution: N.E. Afghanistan, Chitral, Swat (Pakistan) and S. Tadjikistan.

Allied to Primula rosea from which it differs in the synanthus leaves which are erose-dentate, the smaller bracts and flower parts. The corolla is more or less annulate and the yellow throat has a white ring surrounding it. In a specimen col¬lected from Ayun (no. 4980) the corolla lobes are very narrow and six in number.

The species is found near streams, moist places, from 1500-2253 m.