Daphne.] cxxx. THYMEL-EACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 193 



1. DAPHNE, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers in terminal or lateral 

 sessile or pednncled heads or clusters. Perianth tubular, lobes 4, spreading ; 

 scales 0. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, subsessile; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 

 1-celled; style very short or 0. Fruit coriaceous or fleshy. Testa crusta- 

 ceous. Species about 80, Europe, N. Africa, Temp. Asia. 



1. D. oleoides, Schreb. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1047 ; leaves l-2 in. 

 .obpvate oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or mucronate sparsely 

 hairy or glabrate, flowers in terminal sessile .or subsessile clusters ebracteate, 

 perianth silky. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 533; Jaub. & Sp. III. PI. 

 Or. t. 305. D. mucronata, Boyle III. 322, t. 81, f. 2 ; DC. 1. c. 536 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 384 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 315. D. coriacea, Royle I. c. 321. 

 D. buxifolia, Vald Symb. i. 29 ; Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 357 ; Jaub. # Sp. I. c. 

 306. D. acuminata, Boiss. Sf Hok. Diagn. Ser. 1. xii. 103 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 1048. P D. cashemireana, Meissn. I. c. 535. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal westwards to Murree and the Suliman Range, 

 alt. 3-9000 ft. DISTRIB. Affghanistan and westwards to Italy. 



A small much-branched shrub ; branches green brown or purple, pubescent or 

 glabrate. Leaves very variable, sessile, coriaceous. Flowers white or tinged with 

 pink, about ^ in. long ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, very variable in length. Ovary 

 pubescent. Fruit dry or rather fleshy, - in. loug, ellipsoid, orange or scarlet. 



2. D. cannabina, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii. 315, t. 7, 8, and Cat. 



1045 (not of Loureiro); leaves 2-4 in." oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate or 

 elliptic obtuse or obtusely acuminate glabrous, flowers in terminal and 

 lateral sessile bracteate heads, perianth-tube cylindric pubescent. Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 370. D. papyracea, Wall, ex Steud. Nomencl. 483 ; Meissn. in 

 DenJcschr. Regensb. Bot. Gesell. iii. 282, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 537; 

 Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 143, t. 148; Brand. For. Fl. 386; Gamble 

 Man. Ind. Timb. 315 ; Madden in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xviii. 610. 

 D. odora & Bholua, Don Prodr. 68. D. papyrifera, Sam. mss. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; from Chamba to Bhotan, alt. 5-7000 ft. in the west, 

 and 6-10,000 in the east. KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-6000 ft. 



A shrub, 7-8 ft. ; branches glabrous, except the youngest, leafy at the tips. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, nerves faint ; petiole very short. Flowers white purple or 

 yellowish, very sweet ; bracts oblong or lanceolate. Perianth, J in., tube rather 

 slender ; lobes broad or narrow, ovate, acute. Fruit ovoid, succulent, red or orange. 

 Possibly two species are included here. Small alpine states 6-8 in. high from Sikkim 

 have broadly elliptic-ovate hard reticulated leaves |-1 in. long, and dark brown when 

 dry ; the stems are buried in the ground with the few leaves and small greenish- 

 white flowers exserted. Finding no authority for Steudel having attributed the name 

 of D. papyracea to Wallich, 1 have taken for it that of D. cannabina which Wallich 

 did give it, though under the erroneous impression that it was Loureiro's plant of that 

 name (which is Wikstrcemia indica). 



3. D. involucrata, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii. t. 6, and Cat. 

 1050; leaves 3-6 in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate glabrous, flowers in long- 

 peduncled axillary inv.olucrate heads, perianth - in. silkily villous. D. 

 Wallichii, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 540. Eriosolena Wallichii, 

 Meissn. Gen. ii. 242. Scopolia involucrata, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Imp. Acad. 

 Sc. St. Petersb. 1843, 357. D. longifolia, Meissn. in Eegensb. DenJcschr. 

 iii. 285 ; DC. I. c. Daphne sp. Griff. Notul. iv. 370, and Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t. 538. 



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