194 CXXX. THYMELHACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Daphne. 
common. Patkoye Mts. in Upper AssAM, Griffith. TENASSERIM Mrs., alt. 4- 
5000 ft., Parish, &c. 
A tall lax shrub, often 20 ft. highs; branches 'glabrous, except the tips. Leaves 
narrowed at both ends, pale beneath, thin; nerves very many, slender, arching $ 
petiole 4 in. Heads few- or many-fid.; peduncles solitary or fascicled, filiform, 
1-4 in. long, glabrous or villous, bracteolate at the base; involucral bracts 2, 
boat-shaped, obtuse, silky; flowers white, scented, limb flesh-coloured. Perianth 
villously silky; lobes ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the tube. Fruit ovoid, 
4 in. long, black, 
4. D. pendula, Sm. Ic. Ined. ii. 94*, t. 94; leaves 3-5 in. oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate glabrous, flowers in long-peduncled axillary involucrate 
heads, perianth 1-j in. silkily villous. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. g. 540; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 877. D. montana, Meissn. in Regensb. 
Denkschr. iii. 284. Erisolena montana, Blume Bijd. 651; Meissn. in DC. 
l c. 
BURMA; on the hills between Nattoung and Moulmein, Parish.—DIsTBIB. Java, 
Sumatra. 
Very similar to D. involucrata, but smaller in all its parts, and with the flower 
smaller in proportion to the leaves. It may be only a variety. 
2. TH'YMELIEA, Endl. 
Herbs shrubs or undershrobs, rarely annual. Leaves scattered, usually 
small, narrow. Flowers small, 2-sexual or polygamous, axillary, sessile; 
bracts small, Perianth urceolate or males rarely tubular; lobes 4, spread- 
ing ; scales 0. Disk minute annulate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate; anthers u^ 
sessile. Ovary subsessile, 1-celled, style very short, stigma capitate. Fru 
dry, included 1n the perianth or wholly naked, pericarp membranous. ne 
crustaceous, albumen scanty or 0.—Species 20, Mediterranean region to 4 
sia. . 
T. arvensis, Lamk. Fl. Franc: iii. 218, and Ill. t. 293; annual, ve 
slender, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, stem strict erect leafy, leaves 897 
sile linear-lanceolate, flowers axillary sessile minute. Mezssn. m 7 
Prodr. xiv.1. 551. Lygia Passerina, Fasan. in Act. Acad. Neap. ye , 
235; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1052. Passerina annua, Wikstr. in Act. Hei 
1818, 320; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. iii. t. 47. Stellera Passerina, Linn. ps i , 
559; Jacq. Ic. Rar.i.t. 68; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xi. 12, t. 550; Get 
Fruct. i. 186, ¢. 29, £2. P. diarthronoides, Griff. Notul. iv. 365, and Je. Pl. 
Asiat, t. 534, l | 
UPPER PANJAB; plains below Jummoo, Thomson. KasuMrr, Ramoo, alt. 6000 ft-» 
Clarke.— DISTRIB. Affghanistan and westward to France and N. Africa. ct 
Stem 8-18 in., sparingly branched, branches erect. Leaves 4-3 in., pir fy 
acuminate. Flowers j; in., hermaphrodite, in all the axils, and forming long ^*^ y 
very slender spikes. Perianth appressed-pubescent ; lobes ovate, obtuse, erect, very 
short. Fruit 4-4 in. long, ovoid, narrowed upwards. 
3. EDGEWORTHIA, Meissn. 
Shrubs. Leaves scattered. Flowers capitate, 2-sexual, in sessile, 
uncled axillary heads; bracts involucriform or 0. Perianth-tube cy i 
ric; lobes 4, spreading; scales 0. Stamens 8, 2-seriate; anthers 9". 
sessile. Disk annular, lobulate. Ovary sessile, villous, 1-celled ; stigm^ 
elongate, cylindric. Fruit included in the base of the perianth, pericarp 
coriaceous. Testa crustaceous. 
