DAPHNE 469 



and less densely packed in the head ; the perianth tube as much as f in. long. 

 Native of the Dauphiny and Bavarian Alps. 



A variety with white flowers has been found in the Jura Mountains. The 

 so-called "van major" appears to have no standing. 



Nearly allied to, and sometimes confused in gardens with, D. Cneorum is 

 D. STRIATA, Trattinick) a native of the European Alps. It is, however, easily 

 recognised by the striated, smooth tube of the flower (that of Cneorum being 

 very downy), and by the smooth young shoots. The leaves, arrangement of 

 flowers, etc., are about the same as in D. Cneorum. Flowers deep rose. 

 D. striata is very rare in gardens. 



D. COLLIXA, Smith. 



An evergreen bush, 2 to 3 ft. high, of bushy habit ; young shoots silky 

 hairy. Leaves obovate, tapered at the base, mostly rounded or blunt at the 

 apex ; | to i| ins. long, j to f in. wide ; dark glossy green above, pale and 

 very hairy beneath. Flowers fragrant, purplish rose, produced in a terminal 

 head of ten to fifteen blossoms ; they are j- in. across, and felted with silky 

 hairs outside ; lobes roundish ovate. 



Native of Italy, Crete, Asia Minor; introduced in 1752. It is not very 

 often seen in cultivation, and usually under the name of D. sericea, which is a 

 very closely allied species with tapering pointed leaves, and young shoots 

 soon becoming smooth. Neither of the two i6 very hardy. 



D. DAUPHINII, Hort. 



(D. hybrida, Lindley, Bot. Reg., t. 1177.) 



This is an evergreen shrub with very much the aspect of D. odora, between 

 which and D. collina it is supposed to be a hybrid. Its leaves are narrowly 

 oval, i to 3 ins. long, glossy green above, quite smooth. Flowers in a terminal 

 cluster, very fragrant, about the size of those of odora and of a similar 

 colour (reddish purple), but readily distinguished from those of that species 

 by the hairiness of the tube outside, also of the lobes. This character it 

 inherits from D. collina. This hybrid Daphne is somewhat hardier than 

 D. odora, but is not really happy out-of-doors near London, needing 

 at least winter shelter there. It is essentially a south and west country 

 evergreen. Propagated by cuttings. 



D. GENKWA, Siebold. 



A deciduous shrub, probably 3 or 4 ft. high, the erect, slender, sparsely 

 branched shoots covered with silky hairs when young. Leaves oval-lanceolate, 

 from i to 2 ins. long, \ to f in. wide ; pointed, silky hairy beneath, short- 

 stalked ; mostly opposite, occasionally alternate. Flowers lilac-coloured, 

 produced during May at the joints of the naked wood of the previous year 

 in stalked clusters, the stalks up to \ in. long, silky. There are from three 

 to seven flowers in each cluster, the tube \ to in. long, slender, silky hairy 

 outside, the expanded portion \ in. across. 



Introduced from China by Fortune in 1843, an d later from Japan, where 

 it has long been cultivated but is not native. Unfortunately it is too tender 

 for all but the mildest parts, and is short-lived in cultivation. The flower is 

 very like that of a common lilac in form and colour, and when the shoots 

 are well furnished with them the plant is a beautiful object. Shoots" i^ ft. 

 long are sometimes made in a season, the upper two-thirds of which will 

 be covered with blossom. These long, slender wands of blossom, the 



