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Daphne odora. Sweet-scented Daphne, 



Clq/s and Order, 



DcTANDRtA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Ccl. o. Cor. 4-fida, marcefcens, Stamina incluctens. Dn-pa 

 i-fperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



DAPHNE odora; capirulo terminali fubfeiTiIi multitlcro, foliis 



fparlis oblongo-lanceolatis glabris. Hon. Keiv. 2. p. 26. ed. 



alt. 2. P. 411. Willd. Sp.Pl. 2. p. 412. Smith Exot. Bot. 1. 



p. 91. /. 47. Jacq. Hort. $choenb. 3. p. 54. /. 351. Martytt 



Mill. Ditt. n. 17. Perfoon Syn. 1. p. 435. 

 £)APllN T E odora; floribus aggregatis fetfilibus terrninalibusj 



foliis ovatis alternis glabris. Thunb. Jap. 159. Banks Ic, 



Kiempf. t. 16. Lour. Cochin. 237, 

 SjlKO. K<empf. Aman. Exot. fafc. 5. p. 844. 



The flowers in our plant are corifidcrably larger and more 

 Coloured than reprefented in the figure given us in the Exotic 

 Botany or in that of J acq_u in. The former circumftarice has 

 been probably Owing to the more free admiffion of air and light, 

 the latter we fhall attempt to account for. It appears to us 

 that in its natural ftate the capitulum of flowers is entirely feflile 

 in the bofom of the leaves, which are more crowded at the 

 extremities of the branches ; and that there are no braftes or 

 fmaller floral leaves, or in fome inftances a few immediately 

 under the flowers. In our plant there were only two or three 

 leaves fmaller, but exaclly fimilar to the others; the flowers 

 grew from a globular receptacle on very fhort hairy pedicles, 

 the place of their infertion being marked on the receptacle with 

 a double ring, the outer one having a ciliated edge. But wheri 

 the flowering is deferred later in the fpring or artificial heat is 

 applied from the plants beginning to Ihootj the capitulum of 



flowers 



