THYMELZACEA, 79 
Order CXXII. THYMELASACE. 
Thymeleacee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant ii. p. 186. 
Trees or shrubs, or very rarely herbaceous. There are thirty-eight genera referred 
‘to this Order; and these comprise about 360 species, which mostly inhabit the temperate 
regions of the Old World, especially South Africa, the Mediterranean region, and 
Australasia. Several inhabit North and South America, but they are not numerous. 
1. DAPHNOPSIS. 
Daphnopsis, Mart. et Zucc. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 65; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 191. 
An exclusively American genus of about twenty shrubby and arboreous species, 
ranging from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. 
1. Daphnopsis bonplandii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 521. 
Daphne bonplandiana, Kth. Synop. i. p. 447 ; Linnea, v. p. 89. 
Hargasseria mexicana, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. St. Pétersb. iv. n. 4; Ann. Sc. Nat. série 2, xx. 
p. 51. , 
Hargasseria schiedeana, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. 2, p. 68. 
Sour Mexico, near Vera Cruz (Humboldt & Bonpland), Plan del Rio (Schiede). 
GB. mollis, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 521. 
Sovra Mexico, around Papantla (Schiede & Deppe). Hb. Kew. 
2. Daphnopsis cestrifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 523. 
Daphne cestrifolia, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. p. 150. 
Hargasseria cestrifolia, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. 2, p. 68; Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 247. 
South Mexico, Vera Cruz (Linden, 96; Galeotti, 523).—Conompia. Hb. Kew. 
8. Daphnopsis lindeni, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 523. 
South Mexico, Mirador at 1000 feet (Linden, 95). Hb. Kew. 
4, Daphnopsis salicifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. p. 522. 
Daphne salicifolia, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. p. 150. 
Daphne mexicana, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. p. 236; Mart. et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. x. (reprint, 
. 20). 
Hargaseoria  aicifoia, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. 2, p. 68. 
Soutn Mexico, Cordillera of Vera Cruz at 3000 feet (Galeotti, 524), near Jalapa 
2000 to 3000 feet (Galeotti, 7025), Cuernavaca (Humboldt & Bonpland ; Bilimek, 238). 
Hb. Kew. 
[The Penwacew are a small Order of four genera and twenty-one species, restricted 
to South Africa; and the Elwagnacee comprise about sixteen species, referred to three 
genera, all of which are represented in North America, though not one extends so far 
south as Mexico. | 
