194 cxxx. THYMELJEACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Daplinc. 



common. Patkoye Mts. in UPPER ASSAM, Griffith. TENASSERIM Mis., alt. 4- 

 5000 ft., Parish, &c. 



A tall lax shrub, often 20 ft. high ; branches 'glabrous, except the tips. Leaves 

 narrowed at both ends, pale beneath, thin; nerves very many, slender, arching; 

 petiole in. Heads few- or many-fld. ; peduncles solitary or fascicled, filiform, 

 J-4 in. long, glabrous or villous, bracteolate at the base; involucral bracts 2, 

 boat-shaped, obtuse, silky; flowers white, scented, limb flesh-coloured. Perianth 

 villously silky ; lobes ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the tube. Fruit ovoid, 

 $ in. long, black. 



4. D. pendula, Sm. Ic. Ined. ii. 34*, t. 34 ; leaves 3-5 in. oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate glabrons, flowers in long-peduncled axillary involucrate 

 heads, perianth -| in. silkily villous. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 540 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. 1, 877. D. montana, Meissn. in Regensh. 

 Denkschr. iii. 284. Erisolena montana, Blume Bijd. 651 ; Meissn. in DC. 

 I. c. 



BURMA; on the hills between Nattoung and Moulmein, Parish. DISTRIB. Java, 

 Sumatra. 



Very similar to I>. involucrafa, but smaller in all its parts, and with the flower 

 smaller in proportion to the leaves. It may be only a variety. 



2. THYlKEXiJEA, Endl. 



Herbs shrubs or undershrubs, rarely annual. Leaves scattered, usually 

 small, narrow. Flowers small, 2-sexual or polygamous, axillary, sessile ; 

 bracts small. Perianth urceolate or males rarely tubular ; lobes 4, spread- 

 ing ; scales 0. Disk minute annulate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; anthers sub- 

 sessile. Ovary subsessile, 1-celled, style very short, stigma capitate. Fruit 

 dry, included in the perianth or wholly naked, pericarp membranous. Testa 

 crustaceous, albumen scanty or 0. Species 20, Mediterranean region to E. 

 Asia. 



T. arvensis, Lamk. Fl. Franc, iii. 218, and III. t. 293 ; annual, very 

 slender, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, stem strict erect leafy, leaves ses- 

 sile linear-lanceolate, flowers axillary sessile minute. Meissn. in DC. 

 Prodr. xiv. 1. 551. Lygia Passerina, Fasan. in Act. Acad. Neap. 1787, 

 235 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1052. Passerina annua, Wikstr. in Act. Holm. 

 1818, 320 ; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. iii. t. 47. Stellera Passerina, Linn. Sp. PL 

 559; Jacq. Ic. Sar.i. t. 68; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xi. 12, t. 550; G-eertn. 

 Fruct. i. 186, t. 39, f. 2. P. diarthronoides, Griff. Notul. iv. 365, and Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. t. 534. 



UPPER PAN JAB ; plains below Jummoo, Thomson. KASHMIR, Ramoo, alt. 6000 ft., 

 Clarke. DISTRIB. Affghanistan and westward to France and N. Africa. 



Stem 8-18 in., sparingly branched, branches erect. Leaves - in., suberect, 

 acuminate. Flowers -~ in., hermaphrodite, in all the axils, and forming long leafy 

 very slender spikes. Perianth appressed-pubescent ; lobes ovate, obtuse, erect, very 

 short. Fruit \$-\ in. long, ovoid, narrowed upwards. 



3. EDOEWORTHIA, Meissn. 



Shrubs. Leaves scattered. Flowers capitate, 2-sexual, in sessile or 

 peduncled axillary heads ; bracts involucriform or 0. Perianth-tube cylin- 

 dric ; lobes 4, spreading ; scales 0. Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; anthers sub- 

 sessile. Disk annular, lobulate. Ovary sessile, villous, 1-celled ; stigma 

 elongate, cylindric. Fruit included in the base of the perianth, pericarp 

 coriaceous. Testa crustaceous. 



