Tas. 8732. 
DAPHNE GrrRabpit. 
: China. 
THYMELAEACEAE, Tribe EUTHYMELAEFAE. 
Dapune, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 190. 
Daphne Giraldii, Nitsche, Beitr. Kenntn. Gatt. Daphne (Diss.) p. 7; Rehder 
in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. vol. ii. p. 545; inter species subsectionis 
Alpinarum, Keissl., floribus aureis glaberrimis distinctissima. 
Frutex erectus, 0°75 m.altus, glaberrimus. Folia primo anno decidua, alterna, 
sessilia, anguste oblanceolata, subacuta vel obtusa, saepe minute apiculata, 
basin versus magis minusve attenuata, 4-6 cm. longa, vix 1 cm. lata, papy- 
racea, glaberiima. Flores adramorum apices capitato-glomerata, pauci (in 
planta culta ad 8), subsessiles, ebracteati, glaberrimi, aurei. Receptaculum 
tubulosum, 6-8 mm. longum, 2°5 mm. latum. Sepala ovata, acuta, ad 
4mm. longa. Petala0. Staminum series inferior paulo supra medium 
tubum, supe ior in faucibus inserta. Ovariwm sessile; stigma depresso- 
globosum, sessile. Fructus ovoideus, 8 mm. latus.—D. tangutica, Pritz. 
in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 481; non Maxim.—O. Srapr. 
The Daphne here figured was first met with by Pere 
Giraldi, after whom it is named, in 1894 on Mt. Tue-lian- 
pu in Northern Shensi. It was collected by him again 
in 1897 in other localities in the Tsin-ling range, and in 
1899 it was found by Mr. H. Scallan on Mt. Ugosan in 
the same province. Some years later it was found in 
Western Kansu, at elevations of about 9,000 feet, on the 
mountains to the west of the Tow River by Mr. W. 
Purdom when collecting on behalf of Messrs. J. Veitch 
and Sons, by whom it was introduced to cultivation. 
The material for our plate of D. Giraldii has been 
supplied by Mr. G. W. E. Loder from a plant in his 
garden at Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, Sussex. This 
plant, which was obtained from Messrs. Veitch in 1913, 
has been grown since then in an open border, where 
it has proved quite hardy and has developed into a bush 
two and a half feet high with a crown four feet in 
circumference. It has flowered fairly freely at Wake- 
hurst Place, but does not set seed very readily. Mr. 
OcropEr, 1917. 
