DAPHNE collina: 8. neapolitana. 
Neapolitan Hill Daphne. 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. THYMELER. 
DAPHNE. L. Calyx nullus. Corolla monopetala infundibuliformis, 
quadrifida, decidua. Drupa monosperma. Wikström diss. de Daphne. p. 2. 
D. collina, floribus terminalibus fasciculatis extus sericeo-villosis : laciniis 
corollz ovatis obtusis, foliis obovatis supra nitidis glabris, subtus piloso- 
villosis. Wikstr. l. c. p. 32. enum. p. 9. 
D. collina. Smith spicil. fasc. 2. t. 18. Wild. sp. pl. 2. 423. Pers. syn. 
1. 435. Bot. mag. 428. Duham. arb. et frut. ed. nov. t. 2. Link enum. 
ber. 3. 351. 
(8) neapolitana ; foliis utrinque glabris. 
D. neapolitana. Lodd. bot. cab. 719. 
Descr. D. colline a.—Frutex 1-3-pedalis, supernè ramosissimus, Rami 
sparsi, sepe dichotomi, versus apices foliosi, angulati, glabri, rufescentes ; 
ramuli juniores sursum cinereo-hirsuti, v. villosi. Folia sparsa, conferta, ses- 
silia, obovata, obtusa, integerrima, coriacea, margine revoluta, supra gla- 
bra, nitida, intensè viridia, subtus piloso-villosa, cinerea, sempervirentia, 
6-10 lineas longa, medio 3-5 lineas lata; squame gemmarum floralium ob- 
longe, concave, obtuse, villose v. sericee. Flores terminales, fasciculati ` 
v. úggregati, numerosi, 6-16 in uno-quoque fasciculo, sessiles, foliis cincti, extus 
sericeo-villosi v. villosi, diluté v. roseo-violacei, suaveolentes. Corolla ( Calyx ) 
nervosa, 5 circiter lineas longa: tubo basi latiore, 3 lineas longo: laciniis 
corolle (calycis) ovatis v. oblongis, obtusis, 2 circiter lineas longis (in cultis 
fere longitudine tubi). Stamina duorum ordinum; filamentis brevissimis ; 
antheris oblongis, v. linearibus, bilocularibus, luteis. Germen ellipticum, se- 
riceum; stylus brevissimus; stigma capitatum, convexum, glabrum, medio 
depressum. Wikstr. l. c. 
This pretty plant is surely a mere variety of D. collina, 
from which it differs, as far as we can observe, after com- 
paring the living plants, chiefly in the want of pubescence 
on the under surface of the leaves. Like many other plants 
with which the Catalogues and Floras of the present day 
are augmented, it is a sport of Nature, which the ingenious 
acuteness of modern Botanists has brought into notice; but 
which, if unmolested upon its native hills, would quickly 
have passed away into the type from which it sprung. 
In Dr. Wikstróm's recent dissertation and subsequent 
enumeration of the species of Daphne, we perceive no no- 
tice taken of this variety; but in the latter the Daphne 
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