TBYMELJEAOEM. 188 



Stamens 8, of which 4 are longer, further exserted : filaments subu- 

 late, alternating at insertion with 8 minute (sometimes withered) 

 teeth ; anthers basifixed introrse oblong obtuse. Germen sessile (of 

 Daphne) ; style scarcely lateral slender exserted, at apex stigmatose 

 scarcely capitellate. Emit naked ^^ baccate;" seed thinly albumi- 

 nous. — A glabrous shrub ; branches virgate ; bark thickened at nodes ; 

 leaves alternate veined, deciduous ; flowers i axillary cymose few 

 (2-4) or more rarely solitary. {North America.^) 



23. — Daphne L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous; tube of 

 tubular or subinfundibuliform, deciduous or sometimes persistent 

 calyx not solute ; lobes of 4-partite limb equal, alternately imbricate 

 or more rarely tortuous ; throat esquamate. Stamens 8, inserted in 

 2 series under the throat, 4 of which are inferior, alternisepalous ; 

 anthers subsessile, enclosed or subenclosed, oblong or subsagittate, 

 introrse, 2-rimose.* Germen sessile or substipitate, girt at base 

 with small or very small, often annular, disk ; ovule 1, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior ; ^ style terminal enclosed, short or 

 subnil, sometimes racher longex (Udgeivorthta^), at apex stigmatose 

 subclavate or oftener capitate. Fruit oftener naked or coriaceous, 

 sometimes enclosed by calyx ; testa of descending seed crustaceous ; 

 albumen little fleshy or ; cotyledons of inverted embryo fleshy 

 plano-convex ; radicle short superior. — Small trees or oftener shrubs ;^ 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, persistent or more rarely 

 deciduous, oftener entire coriaceous penninerved ; flowers^ terminal 

 or lateral capitate, sometimes more rarely lateral, sessile or pedun- 

 culate, sometimes involucrate; inflorescence rarely compound- 



^ Pale yellow, early. Wall. MSS. (not Poit.). — Mezereum C. A. 



2 Spec. 1. D.palustris L.— Pursh, Fl Bor.- LIey. Bull. S.-Petersb. iv. n. 4. 



Amer. i. 268. — Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. 268. — * Pollen globose punctulate ; pores minute 



A. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 424. — Bot. Reg. t. 292. very close, H. Mohl [Ann. So. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 



' Gen. n. 311. — J. Gen. 77. Lamk. Bid. iii. 3i.4), in Baphne ; sometimes in other genera 



434 ; Suppl. iii. 314 ; III. t. 290, — Wikstr. Diss. {Gmdia, Passeriua, Bais, Pimelca). 



de Baphne (1817) ; Act. Holm. (1818), 294 * Integument double. 



(part.). — Nees, Fl. Germ, f. vii. t. 1. — Spach, " Meissn. Regensb. BeuJcsehr. iii. 280, t. 8; 



Suit, a Bufon, x. 438.— Endl. Gen. n. 2092 ; Prodr. 5i2 (not Falcon.).— Exdl. Gen. Suppl. 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2106^ (part.).— Meissn. Re- iv. p. ii. n. 2106^ 



gensb. Benksehr. iii. 282 ; Prodr. 530, 700.— 7 Liber of caustic bark textile very tena- 



Thtjmelece T. List. 594 (part.), t. 366,— G.^srtn. cious. 



Fruct. i. 188, t. Z'd.—Scopolia L. f. Suj^pl. 60, ' White, golden or pink, more rarely green- 



409 (not Adans. nor Forst. nor Jacq. nor ish, often early and odorous. 

 Sm.). — Eriosolena Bl. Bij'dr. 651. — Roumea 



