Diarthron.] cxxx. tHymeLmacua. (J. D. Hooker.) 197 
A slender annual, 6-12 in., usually copiously dichotomously branched. Leaves 
3-4 in., nerveless, rather glaucous. Racemes very slender, flowering 4 in. long, fruit- 
ing lin.; flowers very shortly pedicelled. Perianth 4 in. long, tube very slender, 
lobes short. Lower anthers smaller than the upper. Fruit l-j, in. long, narrowly 
ovoid, perianth-tube membranous (vesicular when the fruit does not ripen), 
7. LASIOSIPHON, Fresen. 
Silky shrubs. Leaves opposite or scattered. Flowers 2-sexual, in dense 
eads with broad bracts. Perianth-tube cylindric, circumsciss above the 
Ovary; lobes 5, spreading ; scales above the stamens 5-10. Stamens 10, 
Upper or all shortly exserted; anthers oblong or linear. Disk 0 or short, 
annulate. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Fruit 
small, dry, included in the base of the perianth, pericarp membranous. 
Testa crustaceous; albumen scanty or 0,—Species about 25, Trop. and 
» African and Trop. Asiatic. 
e eriocephalus, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 148; leaves subses- 
sile from oblong.to linear-oblong -lanceolate or oblanceolate acute glabrous 
or silky beneath, heads globose shortly peduncled, bracts hoary deciduous, 
penanth densely villous with long silky Fairs. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
. 997; Thwaites Enum. 250; Beddome For. Man. 179, t. 25, f. 2. L. spe- 
&osus, Dene. L. c. 147, t. 150; Meissn. in DC. L. c. 598 ; Datz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
P 221. L; sisparensis, Hugelii P and insularis, Meissn. in DC. l. e. L. 
Metzianus, Mig. Analect. Bot. ii. 3, t. 1. Daphne eriocephala, Wall. Cat. 
Lachnæa eriocephala, Heyne mss. Gnidia eriocephala, Meissn. in 
egensh. Denkschr, iii, 999; Wight Ic. t. 1859. G. sisparensis, Gardn. 
in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1; Wight Ic. t. 1860; G. insularis, Garda. l. c. 
G. monticola, Mig. in Flora 1849, 557. i . 
Dzccax PENINSULA; on the Ghats from the Concan southwards, ascending to 
7000 ft. on the Nilghiris. CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft. . Bi 
G A small tree or large much-branched bush, with much of the habit of Edgeworthia 
ardneri ; branchlets usually purplish, Leaves 2-3 by 4-1 in. not coriaceous, 
narrowed from the middle or above it to the rounded base, nerves very slender and - 
oblique. Heads 1-2 in. diam. ; involucral bracts oblong, acute, silky, shorter than 
hi flowers, which are very numerous, densely packed and thickly clothed with 
White or buff long silky villous hairs. Perianth }-% in. long, yellow; tube slender ; 
obes 4-5, oblong, obtuse; scales at its mouth very variable, oblong obcordate or 2-fid. 
_—Tean find no valid characters whereby to distinguish the 5 species here brought to- 
Bether, for which Decaisne and Meissner rely chiefly on the shape of the perianth-scales, 
Waites has united both speciosus and zeylanicus with eriocephalus. The scales 
err bed as minute obovate and notched in'L. eriocephalus; obcordate in Z. 
7 ensis ; linear and bifid in Z. speciosus; linear and entire in L. Metzianus, and 
Small linear and fleshy in L. insularis. Wight further characterizes L. sisparensis 
y the tawny brown heads. Z, Hugelii, Meissn., said to be from the Himalaya, is 
probably founded on an erroneously ticketed plant, for no species of the genus is Known 
H » t hat region, and Hugel collected in the Nilghiris ; Decaisne indeed reni 
nges plant doubtfully to L. eriocephalus itself. Beddome confirms this view o 
Species thus brought under one, 
8. LINOSTOMA, Wail. 
posite. Flowers 
Shrubs someti L . . bo 
imes climbing. eaves opposite or su 
2-sexual, in small panicle doy ms; Pract 2, on the peduncle, at length 
fugi ianth- indric, base at length 
tur id lobes Ed and membranous. Perianth-tube cylindrig, ba gt 
T spreading; scales above the stamens 10, free or connate in 
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