CLXVI. 

 DAPHNE LAUREOLA. 



Spurge- Laurel, 



Class, fyc. See Mezereon (Daphne Mezereum). 



Spec. Char. Racemes axillary, about five-flowered. 

 Leaves lanceolate, smooth, evergreen. 



SYNONYMES. 



f Laureola sempervirens, flore viridi. Bauh. Pin. 462. 

 Laureola. Ger. Em. 1404. Raii Syn. 465. Park. Theatr. 

 205. Dod. Pempt. 361. 

 Latin J Daphnoides cum fructu. Lob, ic. i. 368. 

 i Thymelaea Laureola. Scop. Cam. n. 463. 

 Daphne major. Lamarck. Fl. Fr. iii. p. 221. 

 Daphne Laureola. Lin. Sp. PI 510. Engl. Fl. ii. p. 229. 

 C Engl. Bot. t. 119. 

 French. . . Laureole. 

 Italian . . . Laureola ; Laureola maschio. 

 Spanish . . Laureola macho. 

 Port. .... Loireola macho. 

 German . . Seidelbast. 

 Dutch. . . . Zwart Peper-boompje. 



Description The root is perennial, thick, ligneous, and pliant. 



The stem is shrubby, erect, rather stout, tough, covered with 

 a brownish ash-coloured bark, but little branched, naked be- 

 low, leafy above, growing to the height of two to four feet. 

 The leaves are evergreen, broadly lanceolate, thick, glabrous, 

 of a dark shining green colour, closely arranged towards the 

 summit of the stem. The flowers are yellowish-green, 

 drooping, disposed 'in axillary racemes, about five together, on 

 long petioles, each accompanied by an ovate concave bractea. 



