Daphne.] CXXX. THYMELXACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 193 
1. DAPHNE, Linn. 
Shrubs or smalltrees. eaves alternate. Flowers in terminal or lateral 
sessile or peduncled heads or clusters. Perianth tubular, lobes 4, spreading ; 
scales 0. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, subsessile; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 
l-elled; style very short or 0. Fruit coriaceous or fleshy. Testa crusta- 
ceous.— Species about 80, Europe, N. Africa, Temp. Asia. 
l. D. oleoides, Schreb.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1047 ; leaves 1-21 in. 
obovate oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or mucronate sparsely 
airy or glabrate, flowers in terminal sessile or subsessile clusters ebracteate, 
penanth silky. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 533; Jaub. 4 Sp. Ill. PI. 
Or. t. 305. D. mucronata, Royle Ill. 322, t. 81,1. 9; DC. l. c. 536; Brand. 
For. FI. 984; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 315. D. coriacea, Royle l. c. 321. 
D. buxifolia, Vahl Symb. i. 29; Sibth. Fl. Grac. t. 357; Jaub. & Sp. l c. 
99. D. acuminata, Boiss. dr Hoh. Diagn. Ser. 1. xii. 103; Boiss. FI. Orient. 
1.1048. ? D. cashemireana, Meissn. L. c. 535. 
WxsrzRN HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal westwards to Murree and the Suliman Range, 
alt. 3-9000 ft.— DrsTRIB. Affghanistan and westwards to Italy. 
small much-branched shrub; branches green brown or purple, pubescent or 
Bhbmte, Leaves very variable, sessile, coriaceous. Flowers white or tinged with 
Pink, about 3 in. long; lobes ovate or lanceolate, very variable in length. Ovary 
pu t. Fruit dry or rather fleshy, 1i-j in. long, ellipsoid, orange or scarlet. 
iu? Pt cannabina, Wall. in Asiat. Research. xiii. 315, t. 7, 8, and Cat. 
045 (not of Loureiro); leaves 2~4 in. oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate or 
r ptic obtuse *or obtusely acuminate glabrous, flowers in terminal and 
teral sessile bracteate heads, perianth-tube cylindric pubescent. Griff 
otul. iv, 370. D. papyracea, Wall. ex Steud. Nomencl. 483; Meissn. in 
enkschr, Regensb. Bot. Gesell. iii. 282, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 537; 
[^ e am Jacq. Voy. Bot. 143, t. 148; Brand. For. Fl. 386; Gamble 
an, Ind. Timb. 315; Madden in’ Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. 610. 
odora, & Bholua, Don Prodr. 68. D. papyrifera, Ham. mss. 
and OUP ERATE HiMALAYA; from Chamba to Bhotan, alt. 5-7000 ft. in the west, 
A 10,000 in the east. KĦASIA Mrs., alt. 3-6000 ft. . 
a shrub, 7-8 ft.; branches glabrous, except the youngest, leafy at the ps. 
ye E thinly coriaceous, nerves faint ; petiole very short. Flowers white purp e o 
slender? very sweet; bracts oblong or lanceolate. Perianth 4 in., tube rather 
oscil? lobes broad or narrow, ovate, acute. Fruit ovoid, succulent, red or orange 
have be, two species are included here. Small alpine states 6-8 in. high from S kim 
dry; roadly elliptic-ovate hard reticulated leaves 3-1 in. long, and dark brown w en 
white flo, stems are buried in the ground with the few leaves and small greenish- 
of D, ps exserted.—Finding no authority for Steudel having attributed the name 
did 9? ?¥acea to Wallich, 1 have taken for it that of D. cannabina which Wallic 
e (uit though under the erroneous impression that it was Loureiro's plant of that 
Which is Wikstraemia indica). 
5 D. involucrata, Wall. in Asiat. Research. xii. t. 6, and Cat. 
d leaves 3-6 in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate glabrous, flowers 1n ong: 
ncled axillary involucrate heads, perianth $-} in. silkily villous. ur 
Meine Ny Meissn. in DOC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 540.  Eriosolena Wal lic i 
Be St Gen. ii, 949. Scopolia involucrata, C. 4. Mey. in Bull. Imp. ln . 
ii ggs Petersd. 1843, 357. D. longifolia, Meissn. in Regensb. Denkschr. 
tig? DC. 2c—Daphne sp. Grif. Notul. iv. 370, and Ie. Pl Asiat. 
D a IMALAYA, alt, 6000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. Kuasia MTS., alt 4-6000 ft., 
