184 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ramose or axillary racemose.^ {Temp. Europe and Asia^ North, 

 Africaj Java."^) 



24. Ovidia Meissn.^ — Flowers nearly of Daphne^ 4-merous, by 

 abortion 1-sexual dioecious (?) ; throat of funnel-shaped, 4-lobed, 

 calyx, esquamate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, inserted in throat ; filaments 

 slender ; anthers (in female flower rudimentary) osrate introrse. 

 Germen (in male flower sterile rudimentary), girt with 4 hypogynous 

 glandules ; style lateral or subterminal exserted, apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Fruit ^^ baccate piriform."* — Shrubs; leaves alternate 

 subcoriaceous, inflorescence and other characters of Daphne ; flowers^ 

 subumbellate at top of terminal or lateral peduncle, ebracteate. 

 {Western South America.^) 



25. Wikstroemia Endl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Daphne) herma- 

 phrodite, 4-merous ; calyx tubular or funnel-shaped ; throat naked ; 

 limb 4 -fid, oftener separable from tube and deciduous. Anthers 8, 

 2-seriate, enclosed. Scales of hypogynous disk 4, free or connate; 

 germen 1 -ovulate ; style terminal short or very short stigmatose- 

 capitate. Fruit baccate or finally dry and other characters of 

 Daphne. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alternate, foliaceous 

 or subcoriaceous venose, deciduous ; inflorescence capitate or um- 



» Sect. (Meissx.) o : 1" Mezereum (Spach), i. 147 ; ii. 34, t. 1.— Wall. Ai. Res. xiii. 388, t. 



leaves herbaceous deciduous ; calyx deciduous ; 9. — Sieb. Hooh. Lond. Journ. yi. 46 {Edge- 



berry oftener fleshy. — 2*^ Baphnanthes (C. A. worthia). — Benth. Fl. Eongk. 296. — Jaub. et 



Mey. ; Cneoroides Spach, III. FL Or. t. 305), Spach, III. Fl. Or. t. 303-306.— Miq. Fl. Ind.- 



leaves persistent ; flowers terminal ; calyx sub- Bat. i. 877; Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 133, 



persistent. — 3^ Gnidium (Spach), leaves annual ; 135 {Edgeworthia). — Grex. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



racemes terminal ramose, ebracteate; calyx iii. 57. — Bot. Reg. t. 1177; (1847), t. 48. — 



finally deciduous.— 4^ laureola (Spach; Lari- Bot. Mag. t. 206, 313, 1282, 1875. — Walp. 



reoloides Spach), leaves coriaceous perennial A^m. i. 582. 



coetaneous; racemes axillary. — 5° Eriosoltna * Frodr. 624 (not Ratin.). 



(Bl. ; Scopolia L, p.), leaves coriaceous ; capi- * C. Gay, Fi. Chil. v. 314. 



tules lateral pedunculate involucrate ; sepals ^ Greenish or yellow. 



often tortuous ; to which add. — 6^ Edgeworthia ^ Spec. 4. H. B. Sxjn. Fl. ^quin. i. 447, 



(Meissx.), leaves highly coetaneous, head pe- (Daphne).— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 151 



dunculate in uppermost axils, style rather long {Daphne). — Pcepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 



subclavate ; anthers subsagittate. ii. 60, t. 191 {Daphne). 



3 Spec, about 35. Pall. Fl. Ross. i. 53, t. 7 Frodr. Fl. Norfolk. '^1 ; Gen.n.2lQ5; Suppl. 



35.— Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 236.— iv. p. ii. n. 2106^— Meissx. Denkschr. Re- 



ScHREB. Dec. i. 13, t. 7.— Vahl, Symb.i. 28. — gensb. Bot. Ges. iii. 286; Frodr . 543. — Decxe. 



Tratt. Arch. i. 120, t. 133.— Thuxb. Fl. Jap. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 144, t. 149.— C. A. ]\Iey. 



159 — Bl. Bijdr. 651. — Sm. Spicil. ii. t. 18; Bull. S.-PHtrsh. iv. n. 4 (not Schrap. nor 



Ic. ined. ii. 34, t. 34. — Sieb. et Zucc. Abh. Sprexg.). — Capura L Mantiss. 224 (not Bl.). 



Math.-Fhys. XL Ba>er. Ak. iv. p. iii. 199; Fl. —Biplomorpha Meissx. Denkschr. Regensb.m. 



Jap. i. 137, t. 75.— LiXDL. Journ. Sort. Soc. 289. 



