THYMEL^AGEM. 135 



bellate,! axillary or terminal, solitary or more rarely oorymboso- 

 ramose. [Trop. and suhtrop. Asia, Oceania^") 



26. Stellera Gmel.^ — Flowers (nearly of Daphne) hermaphrodite, 

 4-6-merous ; calyx hypocrateriform, articulate above the germen, 

 deciduous; throat esquamate. Stamens 8-12, inserted in 2-series 

 under the throat ; anthers enclosed or superior semiexserted. 

 Germen subsessile, barbate at apex, girt at base with annular or 

 cup-shaped membranous, sometimes oblique disk ; style terminal or 

 lateral, shorter than germen, and at apex stigmatose hispidulo- 

 papillose subovoid. Fruit nucular, loosely clothed with persistent 

 tumescent base of calyx ; pericarp thin crustaceous ; seed scantily 

 albuminous. — Small shrubs or perennial herbs ; leaves alternate 

 lanceolate; flowers* terminal racemose, spicate or subcapitate. 

 ( ^Yest. Middle and North, Asia.^) 



27. Thymelsea T.^ — Flowers (nearly oi Stellera or Daphne) herma- 

 phrodite or sometimes 1 -sexual ; calyx (coloured or herbaceous) 

 infundibuliform or urceolate-tubular, persistent or tardily deciduous ; 

 throat esquamate. Stamens 8, inserted in 2 series in the tube ; the 

 higher enclosed or exserted. Germen destitute of hypogynous disk ; 

 style terminal or oftener lateral very short, apex stigmatose capitate. 

 Fruit nucular, naked or oftener enclosed by calyx ; seed but little or 

 not at all albuminous. — Herbaceous subshrubby or oftener shrubby 

 plants ; leaves alternate ; flowers '^ ax^illary solitary or glomerate 

 few, bracteolate. {Central and South. Europe^ 'North Africa^ North, 

 and West. Asia.^) 



^ Sometimes excrescent from axis, subspicate. ' Spec, about 8. Wikstr. Act. Holm. (1818), 



2 Spec, about 22. L. Spec.i. 511 {Daphne). — 321 (Pasamna).— Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 546 {Pas- 



FoRST. Prodr. n. J6S {Daphne). —l^ovu. Fl. ser«»«).--jAUB. et Spach, ///. -T^. Or iv. t. 301, 



Cgc^. (ed. 1790), 236 {Daph7ie).—BhASiC0, Fl. 302.— Meissn. Benkschr. Regensb. iii. 287 



cle Filip. ed. 1, 309 {Daphne). — Benth. ^ooZ;. {Wlkstroemia). 



Jouru. (1853), 195.— BuNGE, F/nim. PI. Chin. « Inst. 594 (part.).— Exdl. Gen. Suppl. iv. 



Rr.r. 58 (Passerina). — MoR. et Zoll. Arch. p. ii. 65.— Meissx. P?W>-. 551. — Stellera Ga-.ut's. 



i^at. Ges. Ned. Lid. (1844), 615 {Erioaolena).— Fnict.i. 186," t. 39. fig. 2 (not Gmel,).— Z.y.9?<5P 



Seem. i^^. Vit. 2QQ.—^Iiq,. Fl. Lid.-Bat. i. 878; Fasan. Att. Ace. Napol. (1787), 235, t. 19.— 



Suppl. 141, 354 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 134. Piptochlamys C. A. Mey. Bull. S.-Petersb. iv. n. 



— Meissx. Prodr. 550, n. 9, 10 {Stellera).— 4:.—Chlamgdanthm C. A. Mey. loc. cit. 



Walp. Ann. i. 589. 7 Greenish or yellow, more rarely white or 



' L, Diss. Dasson (1747), Amosn. i. 399 ; reddish, often small. 



Gen. (ed. 5), n. 439 ; (ed. 6), n. 488 (not s gpec, about 20. Clus. Hisp. Icon. 176.— 



G,i:rtn.).— C. A. Mey. Bull. S.-Petcr.^b. iv. {Sanamundu) .—^xm^^h. Icon. t. 221 {Sana- 



n. 4.— Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2098.— munda),—'L. Spec. (ed. 1), 356, 509 {Daphne), 



Meissn. Prorf;-. 548 (part.).— CAfl;«cp>s»j<? Amm. 512,519 {Stellera).— FoKi^K. Fl. JEgypt.-Arab. 



Ruth. 16, t. 2. 81 {Fassi.rina). —Yaul, Symb. i. 28; iu. 58. 



* White, yellow or reddish. 



