THYMEL.EAOEJE. 133 



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

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

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

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

 scarcely capitellate. Fruit naked "baccate;" seed thinly albumi- 

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

 leaves alternate veined, deciduous; flowers i axillary cymose few 

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



23. — Daphne L. 3 — 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. 4 Germen sessile or substipitate, girt at base 

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

 micropyle extrorsely superior ; 5 style terminal enclosed, short or 

 subnil, sometimes rather longer (JUdgeworthïa 6 ), 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 ; 7 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, persistent or more rarely 

 deciduous, oftener entire coriaceous penniuerved; flowers s terminal 

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

 culate, sometimes involucrate; inflorescence rarely compound- 



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



2 Spec. 1. D. palustris L.— Pursh, Fl. Bar.- Hey. Bull. S.-Pétersb. iv. n. 4. 



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



A. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 424. — Bot. Reg. t. 292. very close, H. Mohl (Ann. He. Nat. sér. 2, iii. 



* Gen.n. 311. — J. Gen. 11. Lamk. Diet. iii. 3.4), in Daphne; sometimes in other genera 



434 ; Suppl. iii. 314 ; III. t. 290. — WiKSTR. Diss. (Gindia, Passerina, Dais, Pimcha). 



de Daphne (1817) ; Act. Holm. (1818), 294 4 Integument double. 



(part.)- — Nees, Fl. Germ. f. vii. t. 1. — Spach, 6 Meissn. Regensb. Denksehr. iii. 280, t. S ; 



Suit, à BuffoH, x. 438.— Endl. Gen. n. 2092 ; Prodi: 542 (not Falcon.).— E.ndl. Gen. Suppl. 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2106 7 (part.). — Meissn. Re- iv. p. ii. n. 2106 1 . 



gensb. Denksehr. iii. 282 ; Prodr. 630, 700. — 1 Liber of caustic bark textile very tena- 



Thymeleœ T. Dist. 594 (part.), t. 366,— G-jertn. cious. 



Fruct. i. 188, t. 39. — Scopolia L. p. Suppl. 60, s White, golden or pink, more rarely green- 



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

 Sm.). — Eriosolena Bl. Bijdr. 651. — Roiimea 



