278 THYMELE.E. 



7. hcterophylla. Simple leaves elliptical or ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate beyond the 

 base, rarely quite entire : segments of pinnatipartite ones 3-9-jugal, either large, ovate, or 

 small, ovate-lanceolate and lanceolate. — Simple leaves 3"-6" long, segments f"-4" long. 



Hab. Trinidad ! (0, 7), Pd., Or., in the northern mountain-woods ; [Isthmus ! (a, £, 7), 

 Venezuela ! (a, ff), Guiana !, Brazil]. 



LXXIV. THYMELE^. 



Flowers apetalous. Stamens defiuite, inserted into the itnbricative, coloured calyx. Ovary 

 superior, usually simple : ovule usually solitary, laterally affixed : style simple. Seed exal- 

 bnmiuous or with a thin perisperm. Embryo straight : radicle superior. — Leaves exslipu- 

 lute, quite entire. 



This Order contains an acrid principle, which acts upon the skin as a vesicatory. Animals 

 feeding on the berries of Dapknopsis in Dominica are considered poisonous (Imr.). The 

 inner bark of Daphnopsis aud Lagetta (the Lace-bark tree of Jamaica) afford an esteemed 

 fibre. In Trinidad the bark of Schwnobiblus is used as a substitute for rope {Pd.). 



1. SCHCENOBIBLUS, Mart. Zucc. 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx $ 4-partite, rotate, $ . . . . Stamens 4, inserted into the 

 calyx-segments : tilameuts long. — A shrub ; leaves alternate ; flowers in peduncled, corym- 

 bose umbels. 



1. S. daphnoides, Mart. Zucc. — Mart. PI. Bras. 14. t.28.f. 2: the leaves narrower 

 and the flowers smaller than in our plant, which however presents no specific difference. — 

 Leaves subsessile, chartaceous, lanceolate-oblong, pointed, glabrous, 12"-8" long, 3"-2" 

 broad; corymbs rusty -pubescent : pedicels filiform, 8"'-10" long; calyx-segments linear, 

 blunt, 4'" long, nearly twice as long as the stamens. — Hab. Trinidad !, Pd., in shady woods 

 near Arima ; [Venezuela !, equat. Brazil], 



2. DAPHNOPSIS, Mart. Zucc. 



Flowers dioecious : $ with a rudimentary pistil. Calyx salver-shaped, supported by a 

 minute, denticulate involucel : limb 4-partite. Hypogynous scales 4. Anthers 8, subsessile. 

 Stigma terminal, subsessile. Berry naked : seed exalbuminous. — Leaves alternate ; flowers 

 in peduncled heads or umbels. 



2. D. Swartasii, Meisn. Branchlets pubernlons ; leaves chartaceous, lanceolate or lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, discolor, glabrous above, hoary -pub erulous beneath ; peduncles simple : flowers 

 shortly pedicellate, sericeous ; calyx-tube iufuudibular, thrice as long as the limb : lobes lan- 

 ceolate, pointed, recurved ; berry ovoid." — Daphne occidentalis, Sw. Hargasseria, Gr.- — A 

 shrub ; leaves 4"-3" long, 1S"'-10"' broad, tapering into the short petiole, pointed or blunt ; 

 peduncles 1"-1£", pedicels 1'", calyx-tube 4'", limb IV" long; flowers whitish. — Hab. Ja- 

 maica!, Pd., AL, in the high southern mountains; [Guadeloupe {Wickstr.)~\. 



3. D. tinifolia, Gr. Branchlets glabrous ; leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous, lanceo- 

 late-oblong, elliptical-lanceolate or elliptical, concolor, glabrous ; flower-heads cymose, hoary- 

 sericeous : flowers sessile, $ peripherical, at length pedicellate, central ones in both sexes less 

 developed ; <? calyx-tube filiform-clavate, 3-4 times as long as the limb, $ infundibular, 

 at length campanulate : lobes bluntish, recurved ; berry ellipsoidal, pointed, as long as the 

 excrescent pedicel. — Daphne, Sw. Nordmannia, Fisch. Mey. Hargasseria, Endl. D. ti- 

 nifolia, )8, Cnmingii, Meisn. — A tree, 20'-30' high ; leaves usually pointed, 3"-4" long, 

 shortly petioled ; peduncles sericeous, several times dichotomous or 2-3-furcate ; $ calyx- 

 tube 4"'-5'", ? 2'"-3"', berry 4'" long ; flowers yellowish, ? with abortive anthers and the 

 stigma subexscrted. — Hab. Jamaica !, Mac/., AL, Wils., March, Wullschl., in the southern 

 aud western mountains. 



4. D. caribaea, Gr. Branchlets glabrous; leaves subcoriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, con- 

 color, glabrous, veiny ; flower-heads cymose, hoary-pubescent : flowers sessile or ? subses- 

 sile, central ones less developed ; <J calyx-tube clavate, twice as long as the limb, ? in- 



