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EDGWORTHIA chrysantha. 
Golden Edgworthia. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
: "ee ord. THYMELACEÆ. (DAPHNADS, Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 530. 
EDGWORTHIA, C. A. Meyer.—Squame 0 perigynze ; una hypogyna 
emarginata. Stamina 8, biserialia. Ovula solitaria. Stigma elongatum, 
subulatum. Nuz fibrosa. Flores capitati. 
E. chrysantha; foliorum costis minutissimé pilosis, calycis tubo clavato 
sericeo-villoso.— Lindley in Journal of Horticultural Society, vol. 1. 
p. 148. 
Daphne papyrifera, Siebold in act. Batav. xii. 24. Hasskarl Cat. hort. 
Bogor. 92. : 
Edgworthia papyrifera, Zuecarini Fl. Japon. sect. alt. p. 75. (no date.) 
This shrub was found by Mr. Fortune in Chusan, and 
by him was sent to the Horticultural Society in April, 1845. 
It flowered for the first time in February, 1847, in a green- 
house. 
In the Journal of the Horticultural Society it is described 
as *a dwarf soft-wooded plant, throwing up rod-like dull 
green stems from its base, and bearing the leaves exclusively 
near their ends. The leaves are about eight or nine inches 
long, oblong-lanceolate, stalked, very dull green, and covered 
with fine hairs, so small and closely pressed to the surface 
that the naked eye fails to discern them. The flowers have 
not yet been produced in England; but Mr. Fortune's 
Chinese drawings and specimens shew them to be bright 
golden yellow, something less than an inch long, covered 
with exceedingly thick hair on the outside, and collected 
into balls about two inches in diameter at the ends 
of the shoots. He adds, that they are sweet-scented, and 
appear in Chusan in July. The limb of the calyx is divided 
into four smooth ovate obtuse lobes, the tube contains eight 
sessile stamens, arranged in two lines, and with the anthers 
