Piate LXXXVI, 
(A.) DAPHNE Guipivm, Linn.; (B.) THymeta@a uirsura, Endl. 
Natural Order TuyMELACE-. 
(A.) Gen. Cuar.—VF lowers hermaphrodite, tetramerous. Perianth 
coloured (more rarely green), tubular or funnel-shaped, deciduous, or 
more rarely persistent, tube continuous, limb regular, 4-partite, spreading, 
destitute of scales at the throat. Hypogynous disk obsolete or minute, 
annulate, sometimes forming a very short cup or dimidiate. Anthers 8, 
inserted in a double row in the throat, subsessile, oblong, subincluded. 
Style terminal, very short or none, stigma capitate. Berry fleshy or 
coriaceous, naked, or almost dry, and enclosed for some time in the calyx. © 
Seed nut-like, testa crustaceous. Albumen none or little. Embryo fleshy, 
cotyledons plano-convex. Meisner in DC. Prodr. XIV. p. 551, 
(A.) Spec. Cuar.—/ lowers in ebracteate racemes forming a terminal 
panicle. Pedicels covered with a dense white tomentum, the uppermost 
hairs of which form a sort of fringe. Pertanth silky outside, lobes shorter 
than the tube. Berry fleshy, red. Leaves subcoriaceous, linear lanceo- 
late acuminate, densely clothing the branches. Stem upright, woody, 
branched, perennial. Daphne Gnidium, Linn. Sp. Plant. 511; Gren. et 
Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 60; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 322; Ardoino, Fl. Alp. 
Mar. p. 327. 
(B.) Gen. Cuar.—Perianth urceolate or funnel-shaped, quite per- 
sistent or at last deciduous. Hypogynous scales 0. Style lateral or 
rarely terminal. Frwt a dry, nut-like drupe. [The other characters 
are as in Daphne. | 
(B.) Spec. Cuar.—V lowers 2-5 on capitate enlargements of the summit 
of short lateral branches, sessile, destitute of bracts. Perianth pale 
yellow, pubescent outside, about as long as the leaves, lobes slightly 
shorter than the tube. Leaves thick, evergreen, convex and smooth on 
back, concave and covered with white-felted hairs on face, imbricate. 
Stems much branched, forming a low bush, the younger branches of 
which are pendulous and covered with felted white hairs. Thymeicea 
hirsuta, Endl. Gen. Suppl. 4, ii. p. 65; Ardoino, Fl. Alp. Mar. p. 328; 
Passerina hirsuta, Linn. Sp. Plant, ed. i. p. 559; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de 
Fr. iii. 63; Woods, Tour. FI. p. 331. 
_ Hasrrats.—(A.) gathered by me at Mentone, Nov. 27th, 1866; (B.) 
collected by Mr. Stainton on the Isle Ste. Marguerite, off Cannes, on 
March 12th, 1867, who kindly brought me a supply of specimens, 
Remarks.—The genera Daphne and Thymelea seem to-be scarcely 
separable, the terminal style and usually succulent berry of the former 
