300 



SPURGE LAUREL : ROSE BAY 



Leaves 3 15 cm. (5 8 x 2 3 cm.), coriaceous, evergreen, 

 cuneate-lanceolate or oblong or obovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 attenuated at base and sub-sessile; glabrous and very 



Fig. 116. Spurge Laurel, Daphne Laureola, p. 299 (D). 



polished dark green above, paler matt green below. The 

 leaves in crowded rosettes towards the ends of the 

 shoots. Venation obscure. Dying leaves brown. 



#J Shoots rigid and brittle. 



f- Leaves more than 5 cm. long ; not 

 glaucous or revolute. 



Rhododendron ponticum, L. Rose Bay. Evergreen 

 shrub. Leaves large, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, at- 

 tenuated below ; deep polished green above, paler or more 



