Tab. 7579. 



DAPHNE Blagayana. 



Native of Styria and Carniola. 



Nat. Orel. Thymel^ace^:. — Tribe Eutiiymeltee/e. 

 Genus Daphne, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 190.) 



Daphne (Daphnanthes) Blac/ayana ; fruticulas vage ramosus, f oliis glabris 

 apices versus ramorum confertis quasi verticillatis subsessilibus obovatis 

 v. oblanceolatis obtnsis basi angustatis tenuiter nervosis luride viridibus, 

 capitulis sessilibns multifloris, bracteis obovato-oblongis imbricatis sericeis 

 intimis angustioribus perianthii tubum subaequantibus, perianthii pallide 

 straminei tubo f pollicari subsericeo, lobis ovatis obtusis tube- triente 

 brevioribus, ovario longe stipitato pubescente, stylo brevi, bacca carnosa 

 alba. 



D. Blagayana, Frazer in Flora, vol. xxi. pars. I. (1838) p. 176. Reichenb. Ic. 

 Fl. Germ. vol. xi. t. 555, fig. 1180. Meissn. in DO. Prodr. vol.. xiv. 

 p. 534. Begel, Gartenfi. vol. xxix. (1880) p. 228, t. 1020-1. Flore ales 

 Serves, vol. xxii. (1877) p. 2313. The Garden, vol. xiv. (1878) p. 200, 

 t. 143. Gard. Ohron. 1880, vol. i. p. 245, fig. 47; 1882, voL i. p. 505, 

 fig. 80. K. Koch, Dendrolog. vol. ii. p. 377. 



Though discovered in 1837 by Count Blagay, it is only 

 comparatively lately that this most sweet-scented little 

 Spurge-laurel has been introduced into cultivation in 

 England, which was effected by Messrs. Veitch about 

 twenty years ago. It belongs to the section Daphnanthes, 

 C.A.M., characterized by the coriaceous persistent leaves, 

 and terminal more or less capitate flowers, and is nearly 

 allied to D. collina, Sm. (see Tab. 428) of the south of 

 Europe, which is well distinguished by its villously silky 

 branches, short bracts, and much shorter purple perianth. 

 According to the analysis in Reichenbach's figure, the 

 ovary is nearly sessile, but it is narrowed into a long 

 stipes both in the cultivated specimen here figured and in 

 indigenous ones. 



D. Blagayana is a native of calcareous rocks, in company 

 with Erica carnea, in the Carinthian Alps of Carniola and 

 Styria. It is now frequent in English gardens, flowering 

 in March. 



Descr. — A small, laxly branched spreading shrub, a foot 



February 1st, 1898. 



