Edgewortliia.~] cxxx. THYMEL^IACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 195 



E. Gardner!, Meissn. in Denfcschr. Regensb. Sot. Gesellsch. iii. 280, t. 6, 

 and in. DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 543. E. chrysantha, Lindl. injourn. Sort. Soc. 

 i. 148, and Sot. Reg. 1847, t. 48 ; Meissn. in DC. 1. c. ; Fl. des Serres, t. 289. 

 E. papyrifera, Zucc. in Abhandl. Math. Phys. Kl. Bair. Acad. iv. 3. 199 ; 

 Daphne Gardneri, Wall, in As. Research, xiii. 388, t. 9, and Cat. 1044; Don 

 Prodr. 69. D. papyrifera, Sieb. in Act. Batav. xii. 24 



CENTEAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. BHOTAN, Griffith. DISTEIB. China, Japan. 



A large much-branched bush, with stout branches. Leaves 3-5 in., elliptic- 

 lanoeolate, acuminate, glabrous above, pubescent or silky beneath; petiole \% in. 

 Peduncle 0-1 in., stout, decurved, silky ; heads 1-2 in. diam., naked at the base or 

 surrounded with short linear silky bracts. Flowers densely crowded, golden yellow, 

 sweet-scented. Perianth |-| in. long, densely silky; lobes short,. broadly ovate or 

 rounded. I find no character whereby to distinguish the Chinese and Japanese plant 

 from the Himalayan. 



4. WIKSTRCEIKXA, JSndl. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate. Flowers 2-sexual, 

 in terminal racemes or spikes, ebracteate. Perianth-tube elongate ; lobes 4, 

 spreading. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, filaments short. Disk of 1-4 scales. 

 Ovary villons, 1-celled; style short, stigma large globose. Fruit fleshy and 

 naked, or more dry and included in the base of the perianth. Testa crusta- 

 ceous, albumen sparing or 0. Species about 20, Tropical and E. Asia, 

 Australia, Pacific. 



1. W. inclica, C. A. Mey., var. viridiflora; glabrous, leaves suboppo- 

 site|-l in. oblong or obovate-oblong tip rounded base cuneate, flowers in 

 terminal subsessile fascicles, perianth nearly glabrous, lobes short obtuse. 

 W. viridiflora, Meissn. in DenJcschr. Regensb. Bot. Gesellsch. iii. 286, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 546; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 297. Daphne viridiflora, 

 Wall. Cat. 1049. Diplomorpha ? viridiflora, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Imp. 

 Acad. Sc. St. Petersb. 1843, 358. 



CHITTAGON&, J. D. H. $ T. T. TENASSEBIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. SING-APOEE, 

 Loll. DISTEIB. China, Mauritius (naturalized), Philippines. 



A shrub. Leaves 1-1 1 in., thinly coriaceous, brown when dry, nerves numerous, 

 very slender. Flowers few in a cluster, ebracteate. Perianth \ in. long, glabrous, 

 greenish yellow. Disk-scales usually united in pairs. Fruit % in. long, ovoid, 

 scarlet. This appears to be nothing but a short-leaved form of the common N. and 

 S. Pacific Island and Malayan W. indiea, which finds its western limit in the Bay 

 of Bengal, and with which it is united by Bentham in the Australian Flora 

 (vi. 37). 



2. W. canescens, Meissn. in Denksclir. Regensb. Bot. GesellscJi. iii. 

 288, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 2. 547; branchlets and inflorescence silkily 

 pubescent, leaves alternate and opposite oblong-lanceolate acute usually 

 glabrous above and pubescent beneath, peduncles axillary and terminal few- 

 fld., perianth-lobes short obtuse. Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 145. W. 

 salicifolia, Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. xx. 50, and in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 

 144*, t. 149 ; Meissn. in DC. 1. c. 546. W. chamasdaphne and W. inarncena, 

 Meissn. in DC. 1. c. "W. virgata, Meissn. I. c. 289, and in DC. I. c. ; Beddome 

 For. Man. 178, t. 25, f. 4. Daphne canescens & virgata, Wall. Cat. 1046, 

 1047. D. sericea, Don Prodr. 69. D. inamoena, G-ardn. in Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. vii. 454. D. oppositifolia, Sam. mss. Diplomorpha canescens & 

 virgata, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersb. 1843, 358. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Central Nepal, alt. 5-9000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft. UPPEE ASSAM, on the Patkoye Mts., Griffith 



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