Tab. 7180. 

 EDGEWORTHIA Gardneri, 



Native of the Himalaya. 



Nat. Ord. Thymelaeace.e. — Tribe Euthymele^e. 

 Genus Edgeworthia, Meissn.; {Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI., vol. v. p. 194) 



Edgworthia Gardneri; frutex ramosus subsericeo-villosus, foliis 3-5-polH- 

 caribus ellipticis v. elliptico-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis supra glabris 

 subtus sericeis, petiolo J-J poll, longo, floribusin capitula globosa, see e ilia 

 v. breviter pedunculata congestis sessilibus aureis suaveolentibus, bracteis 

 brevibus linearibus, perianthii tubo J-f poll, longo, sericeo-villoso, lobia 4 

 tubo multo brevioribas late ovatis rotundatisve intus glaberrimis, fila- 

 mentis brevibus, antheris obiongis, ovario apice villoso, stylo villoso! 



E. Gardneri, Meissn. in DenJcschr. Regensb. Bot. Geselsch. vol. iii. p. 380, t 6 • 

 in DC. Prodr. v. xiv. pt. ii. p. £.43 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 195.' 



E. chrysantha, Lindl. in Journ. Ilort. Soc. vol. i. (1846) p. 148 ; Bot. Beg 

 1847, t. 48; Meissn. in DC. I.e.; Fl. des Serves, t. 289; Gamble Man 

 Ind. Timb. p. 314; Trees, Shrubs, &c, of Barjeeling, p. 67. 



E. papyrifera, Zuccar. in Abhandl. Math. Phys. Kl. Bair. Acad. v. iv. pt. 3, 

 p. 199 ; Sieb. & Zucc. Fam. Nat. Jap. p. 694 ; Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. 

 p. 299 ; Franch. & Sav. Enum. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 405. 



Daphne Gardneri, Wall, in As. Research, vol. xiii. p. 388, t. 9 ; Cat. No. 1044; 

 Bon Prodr. Fl. Nep. 69. 



D. papyrifera, Sieb. in Act. Batav. vol. xii. p. 24. 



The earliest account of this plant in any European work 

 (for it has been long known to the Japanese) is WalJich's 

 excellent description find figure of it in the Asiatic Society's 

 Researches, where it is stated to be a native of Nepal, and 

 where it occurs wild, and is also cultivated for its beauty 

 and perfume, and for the value of the bark, from which the 

 finest kind of " Nepal paper " is prepared. It is singular 

 that Wallich's account of it should have escaped the notice of 

 Royle, whose " Illustrations of the Flora of the Himalaya," 

 which is a veritable microcosm of the useful plants of India, 

 contains no allusion to Daphne Gardneri; nor is it in- 

 cluded in Drury's " Useful Plants," another comprehen- 

 sive work on the economic plants of India, which has gone 

 through two editions. This is no doubt partly to be 

 accounted for by the fact that the common sort of so- 

 called " Nepal paper " is made from another species of 



Jvsz 1st, 1891. 



