buxifolia of Vahl, which has been usually considered 
synonymous with D. collina, is distinguished, upon the au- 
thority of Vahl's own specimens, as a distinct species with 
white flowers. 
This is as hardy as the common Daphne collina, and in 
some measure a more ornamental plant. It is propagated 
by grafting upon D. mezereum, or D. collina itself. Our 
drawing was made at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery. 
Description of D. collina «.—A shrub from 1-3 feet 
high, much branched upwards. Branches scattered, often 
dichotomous, leafy at their ends, angular, smooth, brown- 
ish; young branches upwards cinereous, hairy, or villous. 
Leaves scattered, close together, sessile, obovate, obtuse, 
quite entire, coriaceous, revolute at edge, above smooth, 
shining, dark green, beneath villous, cinereous, evergreen, 
6-10 lines long, 3-5 lines broad in the middle. Scales of 
the flower-buds oblong, concave, obtuse, villous, or silky. 
Flowers terminal, fascicled or aggregate, numerous, 6-16 
in each fascicle, surrounded by leaves, on the outside silky 
or villous, pale rosy violet, sweet-scented. Corolla (Calyx) 
nerved, about 5 lines long; tube wider at base, 3 lines 
long; segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, about 2 lines long 
(in wild specimens nearly as long as the tube). Stamens in 
two rows; filaments very short; anthers oblong or linear, 
2-celled, yellow. Germen elliptical, silky ; style very short; 
stigma capitate, convex, smooth, depressed in the middle. 
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