2 THYMEL^ACE^ (Wright). 



VI. lachnaea. — Flowers terminal^ capitate^ rarely solitary, 

 *^* Petals preseiit, fleshy or memhvanous. 

 fStainens as many as the calyx-lobes. 

 VII, StrutMola. — Only South African genus. 

 tfStamens twice as many as the calyx-lobes. 

 VIII. Gnidia. — Flowers in bracteate heads or spikes, rarely axillar}^, 4-merou3. 

 IX. Lasiosiphon. — Flowers in bracteate heads or spikes, rarely axillary. 



5-merou3. 



X. Englero daphne. — Floivei's in ebracteate terminal fascicles, 4-merous. 

 XI. Synaptolepis. — Flowers axillary, 5-merous. 

 Tribe II. PHALERIExE.— Ova?-^ 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled. 

 XII. Peddiea. — Flowers pedicelled. Petals 0. 



I. DAIS, Linii. 



J7o2re/*s hermaphrodite. Ccdyx-tnhc cylindrical, often curved, naked 

 in the throat; lobes 5, patent. Stamens 10, included, or the upper 

 series or all shortly exserted ; filaments short ; anthers oblong ; 

 connective inconspicuous. Disc hypogynous, cupular, membranous, 

 truncate or toothed. Ovary villous, 1-ceIled ; style long, filiform ; 

 stigma ovoid 'or capitate. Fruit dry, enclosed in the base of the 

 calyx ; pericarp membranous. Seeds exalbuminous ; testa crus- 

 taceous ; cotyledons broad, fleshy. 



Shrubs ; leaves opposite or scattered, often collected at the ends of the 

 branches ; flowei^ in di-nse stalked heads at the tips of the branches ; bracts 

 2-6, broad, forming an involucre ; calyx silky. 



DiSTKiB. Species 2, one in Madagascar, the other South African. 



1. D. cotinifolia (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 556); a shrub up to 9 ft. 



high ; bark fibrous ; leaves opposite and alternate, obovate or 

 oblong, 2h in. long, H in. ^sj^icle, acute, cuneate at the base, glabrous, 

 lateral nerves about 10, spreading, looping within the margin; 

 petiole 2 lin. long, stout; peduncle 1^2 in. long; involucral 

 bracts 4, broadly ovate or almost rotundate, 5 lin. long, chestnut- 

 brown when dry ; calyx-tube 6 lin. long, | lin. in diam., cylindrical, 

 silky outside especially near the base, less densely so inside ; lobes 

 3 lin. long, 1^ lin. wide, ovate, obtuse; filaments filiform, 1 lin. 

 long ; anthers oblong, ^ lin. long ; ovary ovoid ; style filiform, 

 reaching nearly to the lower anthers ; stigma globose. Lam. 17/. 

 t 368, f(f. I; BoL 3Iarj, L 147; Wikstr, in Vet. Acad. HandL 

 Stockli. 1818, 348; Meisn. in Linn^a, xiv. 388, and in DC. Prodi\ 

 xiv. 529, incl. var. major; Drege, Zwei P/l, Documentey 148; Harv. 

 Gen. S. Afr. PL ed. 2, 325; Wood, Natal PL L 308; Sim, For. FL 

 Cape Col 302, L lo3, Jig. 5. 



Vab. &j parvifolia (Meisn. in Linmea, xiv. 388) ; leaves oval or elliptic, not 

 more than 1 in. long. DC, Prodr. xiv, 329 ; Dreje, Zicei Pjl, Documente, 142. 



Var. 7, laurifolia (MeLsn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 529); leaves lanceolate-oblong, 

 tapering towards both ends, 2-3 in. lontr, about 1 in. wide. D. laurifolia^ Jacq, 

 ColL i. U6; Ic. t. 77. 



