being the only distinctive features which are tolerably absolute. The 
genus Passerina is limited by Prof. Meisner to four species, all from the 
Cape. The extreme range of Daphne Gnidium, L., extends on the south 
and west to Algiers, Teneriffe and Palma in the Canaries, ‘on the north 
to the shores of the western Riviera and Dalmatia, and on the east to 
Greece. It is commonly found along the shore between Marseilles and 
Genoa, but exact data are wanting. The distribution given by Meisner 
(DC. Prod.) for Thymelea hirsuta, Endl., is as follows:—around all the 
Mediterranean coasts, in Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearic 
Islands, southern France, at Nice, on the Ligurian shore, in Istria, the 
kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Zante, at Constantinople, in Crete, Syria, Egypt, 
Arabia petrea, and Algeria. Four varieties are also described. a. vul- 
garis (the form here figured). 3. polygalefolia, Endl., with ovate leaves 
tomentose on either side, at last glabrescent on back; from near Mar- 
seilles. y. rotundifolia with suborbicular ovate, very obtuse leaves, as 
broad as long, glabrous on back; from near Collioure. 6. angustzfolia, 
leaves narrow, ovato-oblong or lanceolate, somewhat acute canaliculato- 
concave above, with apex often inflexed, glabrous on back; found near 
Carthage, Marseilles, Naples, in Sardinia, Sicily, Algeria, Crete, and Egypt. 
Thymelea hirsuta has apparently almost attained a diccious condition, 
some plants* bearing male flowers, as at B 4, with only occasional her- 
maphrodite flowers, while others produce, almost exclusively, female 
flowers, as at B 3, and others again the hermaphrodite flowers of B 2. 
I was able last April (thanks to the kindness of the Rev. S. Henning) to 
examine specimens from nine distinct bushes. The results may be 
briefly given as follows :— 
Bush No. I., 12 flowers examined all 2; No. II., many flowers all 8; 
No. III, 15 flowers g and 2%; No. IV., many flowers all$; No. V., 4 
flowers $8 and 2 ¢; No. VL, 149; No. VIL., many flowers all 9; No. VIL, 
7 flowers ¢; No. IX., 6 flowers 3. Thus there were three bushes of which 
all the flowers examined were female, one in which all were male, three all 
hermaphrodite, and two in which there were both hermaphrodite and 
male flowers. It would be curious to learn, from the examination of a 
really large series of specimens, whether male, female, and hermaphrodite 
flowers are ever found together on the same bush. 
Between Marseilles and Genoa Thymelea hirsuta grows near Marseilles, 
Hyéres, St. Raphael, on the islands of Ste. Marguerite and St. Honorat, on 
the promontory of Antibes, and between Spotorno and Vado, west of 
Savona (De Notaris).t 
EXPLANATION OF Piate LXXXVI.—Fig. A 1, a flower and pedicels 
from which the flowers have fallen, magnified. A 2, a longitudinal 
section of the berry, magnified. A 38, the embryo, magnified. Fig. B 1, 
* The figures B 1, and B 2, by an oversight bear the letter B, asif the flowers came 
from the plant B. In reality, they came from distinct plants, and should have been 
numbered C 1, and D 1, respectively. 
+ ‘Rep, FI. Lig.” p. 389. 
