Daphne.'] thymelej-. 097 



but the line specimens we have now received from Wilford show that it differs cousiderably 

 from the north Chinese D. Genktva, Sieb. and Zucc, or D. Fortunei, Lindl., especially in the 

 lobes of the perianth, which are very small, and apparently of a pure white. 



3. WIKSTRCEMIA, Endl. 



Perianth tubular, with a spreading 4-lobed limb, without scales at the 

 throat. Anthers 8, sessile in 2 rows near the top of the tube. Hypog^nous 

 scales 4, or 2. Ovary with 1 pendidous ovule. Fruit a beiTy. Seed without 

 albumen. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate. Flowers 

 in short terminal or axillaiy racemes or spikes. 



A small tropical Asiatic or Australian geims. 



Leaves obovate or oblong, mostly obtuse. Spikes sessile or nearly so . 1. W. viridijlora. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate. Spikes pedunculate, nodding . . 2. W. nutans. 



1. "W. viridiflora, Mn'mi. 'm DC. Prod, xiv 546. A glabrous nuich 

 branched shrub. Leaves nearly sessile, from obovate and verv obtuse to 

 oblong and almost acute, f to \\ in. long. Spikes very short,' terminal or 

 nearly so, usually quite glabrous, without bracts. Perianth gTeenish-yellow, 

 the tube about 3 lines, the lobes about half that leng-th. Hypogynous scales 

 4, but usually united in pairs so as to appear 2. Stignui large, on a very 

 short style. Berry scarlet, ovoid, about 3 lines long. Seed without albu- 

 men. — W. alpina, var., Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 195. 



Common on the hills, Hinds, Champion, and others. Also on the adjoining continent, in 

 Chittagong and Singapore. 



2. "W. nutans. Champ, in Xew Journ. Dot. v. 195. A glabrous shrub 

 like the last. Leaves ovate or broadly oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, and alwavs 

 acuminate. Spikes terminal, rather looser than in ^. viridi/lora, and always 

 nodding on a recurved peduncle of about | in. Flowers and fruit of PF. viri- 

 di/lora, but larger, the perianth-tube fidl 4 lines long. 



Llills about the Happy Valley, Champion, in the woods of the valley, Wilford ; also 

 Wright. Not known from elsewhere. 



4. AQUILARIA, Lam. 



Perianth campanulate, 5-lobed, with 10 scales united in a ring at tlic 

 throat. Stamens 10, inserted at the thi'oat within the ring. No hypogynous 

 disk. Ovaiy completely or partially 2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each 

 cell. Stigma sessile. Capsule flat, almost woody, opening loculicidally in 

 2 flat valves, with the narrow dissepiment in their centre. Seed produced at 

 the base into a long horn-like appendage. — Trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 in short terminal racemes. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



1. A. grandiflora, Denth.,n.sp. Young shoots and inflorescence sbghtly 

 hoary. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, 2 to 4 in. long, glal)rous, 

 on very short petioles. Flowers few, on pedicels of i to near \ in. Periantli- 

 tube full 2 lines ; the lobes rather longer, ovate, spreading. Ovary ovate, very 

 haiiy, not so completely 2-celled as in A. afjallochum. Fruit obovate, about 

 1 in. long, hoary or tomentose, 2-celled. Appendage of the seed twice as 

 long as the seed itself, dilated upw^ards, but suddenly contracted close uiuler 

 the seed. — A. nialaccensis, Benth. in Kew Journ. v. 195, but not of Lam. 



