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ramose or axillary racemose. 1 {Temp. Europe and Asia, North. 

 Africa, Java?) 



24. Ovidia Meissn. 3 — 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) ovate introrse. 

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

 glandules ; style lateral or subterminal exserted, apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Fruit "baccate piriform." 4 — Shrubs; leaves alternate 

 subcoriaceous, inflorescence and other cbaracters of Daphne ; flowers 5 

 Bubumbellate at top of terminal or lateral peduncle, ebracteate. 

 ( Western South America. 6 ) 



25. Wikstrœmia Endl. 7 — Flowers (nearly of Daphne) herma- 

 phrodite, 4-merous ; calyx tubular or funuel-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- 



1 Sect. (Meissn.) 5 : 1° Mezereum (Spach), i. 147 ; ii. 34, t. 1.— Wall. As. Pes. xiii. 388, t. 

 leaves herbaceous deciduous ; calyx deciduous ; 9. — Sieb. Hook. Loud. Journ. vi. 46 (Edge- 

 berry oftener fleshy. — 2° Daphnnnthes (C. A. worthia). — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 296. — Jaub. et 

 Mey. ; Cncoroides Spach, III. PI. Or. t. 305), Spach, III. PI. Or. t. 303-306.— Mia. Fl. Ind.- 

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

 persistent. — 3° Gnidium (Spach), leaves annual ; 135 (Edgeworthia). — Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. 

 racemes terminal ramose, ebracteate; calyx iii. 57. — Bot. Peg. t. 1177; (1S47), t. 48. — 

 finally deciduous.— 4° Lattreola (Spach ; Lan- Bot. Mag. t. 206, 313, 1282, 1875. — Walp. 

 reoloides Spach), leaves coriaceous perennial Ann. i. 582. 

 coetaneous; racemes axillary. — 5° Ertosolena * Prodr. 524 (not Kafin.). 

 (Bl. ; Scopolia L. F.), leaves coriaceous; capi- 4 C. Gay, F'.. Cltil. v. 314. 

 tules lateral pedunculate involucrate ; sepals s Greenish or yellow. 



often tortuous ; to which add. — 6° Edgeworthia 6 Spec. 4. H. B. Syn. PI. Jïquin. i. 447, 



(Meissn.), leaves highly coetaneous, head po- (Daphne).— H. B. K. Nop. Gen. et Spec. ii. 151 



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



suhclavate; anthers subsagittate. ii. 60, t. 191 (Daphne). 



3 Spec, about 35. Pall. Fl. Boss. i. 53, t. 1 Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 47 ; Gen. n. 2106; Suppl. 



35.— Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 236.— iv. p. ii. n. 2106 1 .— Meissn. Dcnkschr. lie- 



Schreb. Dec. i. 13, t. 7.--Vahl, Symb. i. 28. — gensh. Bot. Ges. iii. 286; Prodr. 543. — Decne. 



Tratt. Arch. i. 120, t. 133.— Thunb. Fl. Jap. in Jacqttem. Voy. Bot. 144, t. 149.— C. A. Mey. 



159- Bl. Bijdr. 651. — Sm. Spied, ii. t. 18; Bull. S.-Pitcrsb. iv. n. 4 (not Schrad. nor 



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



Math.-Phys. Kl. Baer. Ak. iv. p. iii. 199 ; Fl. —Biplomotpha Meissn. Dcnkschr. Regensb. iii. 



Jap. i. 137, t 75.— Lindl. Journ. Hurt. Soc. 289. 



