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steins and branches, among which spring the flowers com- 

 monly in pairs, on a short peduncle. The corolla is of a 

 greenish yellow, inclining to lemon colour, and has a 

 sweetish smell, which is soon lost. It flowers in autumn, 

 and is a native of Pontus and Siberia. 



9. Daphne Dioica ; Diocotis Spurge Laurel. Flowers axil- 

 lary, twin; leaves linear-lanceolate. This is a shrub, a foot 

 in height, stiff, and branched, with a corky bark ; branches 

 alternate, erect, stiff, roughened by the scars of fallen leaves ; 

 leaves crowded, so as almost to be imbricate, very smooth, 

 resembling those of Myrtle, four lines long, and hardly a 

 line broad, not ciliate ; flowers sessile, always two together, 

 on2 flowering later than the other, direcous ; corolla yel- 

 lowish white, or pale sulphur colour, with a bellying tube. 

 Native of the Pyrenees. 



** Flowers terminating. 



10. Daphne Indica; Chinese Daphne. Head peduncled ; 

 leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, smooth. A small shrub ; 

 leaves commonly acute, quite entire, petioled ; peduncle very 

 short, from six to eight sessile flowers at top. Native of 

 China near Canton, but probably from Nankin, since it is 

 commonly called the Nankin shrub. 



11. Daphne Cneorani; Trailing Daphne. Flowers in 

 bunches, sessile ; leaves lanceolate, naked, mucronate. It 

 is a very humble shrub, seldom more than one foot high; 

 stems branched; leaves narrow, lanceolate, placed without 

 order. The branches are terminated by small clusters of purple 

 flowers, which stand erect. The tube of the corolla is longer 

 and narrower than in the Mezereon. The flowers emit a 

 pleasant odour, and appear early in the spring. Native of 

 France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Monte Baldo, the 

 Pyrenees, and Hungary. See the sixth species. 



12. Daphne Gnidium ; Flax-leaved Daphne. Panicle ter- 

 minating; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate. It rises with 

 a shrubby stalk, two feet high, dividing into small branches, 

 terminated by panicles of flowers, which are much smaller 

 than those of the Mezereon, having swelling tubes, contracted 

 at the month, and appearing in June. The stems spread on 

 the ground ; the leaves are annual, and smooth ; the flowers 

 heaped, surrounded with leaves, sweet-smelling, red above. 

 It nowers twice a year. Gerarde calls it Spurge flax, or Moun- 

 tain U'idow-wayle. Parkinson names it Spurge Olive. Na- 

 tive of the south of France, Spain, and Italy. See the 

 second species. 



13. Daphne Squarrosa; Square Daphne. Flowers pe- 

 duncled ; leaves scattered, linear, spreading, mucronate. It 

 rises to the height of five or six feet, dividing at top into se- 

 veral erect brandies, covered with a white bark, and ter- 

 minated by woolly heads, out of which come the flowers in 

 small clusters; they are white, have oblong tubes, and the 

 segments of the border are obtuse and spreading. Native 

 of the Cape. It requires a good green-house to preserve it, 

 and is very difficult to keep in our gardens. 



14. Daphne Oleoidcs; Oily Daphne. Flowers twin, 

 sessile; leaves elliptic, lanceolate, smooth; stem rather 

 shrubby, compound. Native of the Levant. This and the 

 three following species, require the protection of a green- 

 house to preserve them in England. 



15. Daphne Foetida ; Stinking Daphne. Smooth: flowers 

 heaped, sessile; leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, oblong, 

 acute. Native of the Society Isles. It is not certain whe- 

 ther this be different from Daphne Indica. 



16. Daphne Rotundifolia ; Round-leaved Daphne. Hir- 



Isute : flowers heaped, sessile; leaves opposite, elliptic, sub- 

 petioled, obtuse, smooth; branches tomentose, hoary. 

 Native of Tongataboo or Namoka in the South Seas. 



17. Daphne Odora; Sweet-smelling Daphne. Head sub- 

 sessile, many-flowered; leaves scattered, oblong-lanceolate, 

 smooth. Stem becoming shrubby, dichotomous, smooth, 

 naked, erect; branches like the stem, from divaricating 

 erect; leaves at the top of the last branches approximating, 

 sessile, acute, quite entire, spreading, bent back at the tip, 

 deep green on the upper surface, with a groove along the 

 middle, paler underneath, unequal, thick, evergreen, an inch 

 in length ; flowers about eleven ; corolla smooth ; tube pur- 

 ple; filamenta inserted below the mouth; antherae oblong, 

 four, included, and four standing out ; seed ovate, smooth. 

 Native of Japan, where it flowers in February: and also 

 of China, where it is cultivated on account of the grateful 

 odour of its white flowers, which, in England, appear from 

 December to March. It must be protected by a green- 

 house ; though hardy enough to bear our climate, it scarcely 

 ever flowers in the open ground. 



*** New Species. 



18. Daphne Pendula. Heads lateral, peduncled, invo- 

 lucred, nodding ; leaves lanceolate-elliptic, alternate, 

 smooth. A tree or shrub, with alternate round branches, 

 leafy at the end, covered with a smooth brown outer bark, 

 and very filamentous, silky, white inner bark, as in most of 

 the other species; leaves on short petioles, acute, quite en- 

 tire, veined, paler underneath, deciduous; the primordial 

 ones minute, like stipules, silky on the back, and abortive ; 

 flowers in solitary heads, from the axils of the leaves of the 

 former year. Found by Thunberg in the island of Java. 

 It is a stove plant, and must be treated in the same manner 

 as Coffee. See Coffea. 



19. Daphne Altaica. Flowers in bundles, terminating, 

 sessile; leaves oblong-ovate, smooth. Stems straight, slen- 

 der, covered with an even testaceous bark; the lower 

 branches are short, flowering, hairy next the flowers ; thi- 

 upper ones, which continue the growth of the shrub, are 

 smooth. The leaves are alternate, quite entire, drawn to a 

 point at the base, sessile ; on the flowering twigs oblong-- 

 ovate, smaller, growing up to the flowers ; on the barren 

 branches more oblong, very like the leaves of Mezereon, 

 and emulating their consistence. Flowers mostly five to- 

 gether, collected into a head, without any bractes or sti- 

 pules ; corolla white, with a longish tube, swelling at the 

 base, pubescent, with many hairs, and a spreading border, 

 with lanceolate smooth segments; antherae in a double row 

 in the tube on very short filamenta; germen subglobular, 

 with an obtuse stigma. This elegant shrub was discovered 

 by Patrin on the Altaic Alps. 



20. Daphne Triflora. Flowers sessile, axillary, heaped ; 

 calices three-flowered; leaves lanceolate, scattered. Stem 

 three feet high, simple, with ascending branches ; leaves 

 quite entire, smooth, on short petioles ; flowers yellowish. 

 Native of China, in the suburbs of Canton. 



21. Daphne Cannabina. Umbels terminating; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, opposite. This is a tree, ten feet high, with ascend- 

 ing branches, and a very tough bark, like that of Hemp; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, smooth; flowers yellow, 

 in subterminating umbels; corolla salver-shaped, with along 

 tube, and a small border, with ovate segments; berry ovate, 

 red, small. Native of the woods of Cochin-china. An excel- 

 lent writing paper is made from the bark, prepared like 

 hemp. Shapeless, heavy, brown, resinous, woody fragments, 

 resembling the wood of Aloe, and having somewhat of its 

 smell in the fire, are frequently found within the trunk of this 

 tree near the root. The bark and root may be medicinally 

 used in dropsical complaints, without incurring any of those 

 ill effects which are too often produced by the other species. 



