THYMELMAOEM. 135 



bellate, 1 axillary or terminal, solitary or more rarely corymboso- 

 ramose. (Trop, and subtrop. Asia, Oceania. 2 ) 



26. Stellera Gmel. 3 — Flowers (nearly of Daphne) hermaphrodite, 

 4-6-merous ; cal) T x hypoerateriform, 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. 

 ( West. Middle and North. Asia. 5 ) 



27. Thymelsea T.° — Flowers (nearly of 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 7 axillary solitary or glomerate 

 few, bracteolate. (Central and South. Europe, North Africa, North, 

 and West. JsiaJ) 



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



5 Spec, about 22. L. Spec.i. 511 (Daphne). — 321 (Passerina). — Ledeb. Fl. Boss, iii. 546 (Pas- 



Forst. Prod,-, n. 163 (Daphne).— Lour. Fl. serina).— Jaub. et Spach, III. PI. Or iv. t. 301, 



Cnch. (ed. 1790), 236 (Daphne).— Blanco, Fl. 302.— Meissn. Denkeehr. Regensb. iii. 2S7 



de Filip. ed. 1, 309 (Daphne). — Benth. Hook. (Wikstraimia). 



Joum. (1853), 195. — Bunge, Eimm. Pi. Chin. 6 Inst. 594 (part.). — Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. 



Bur. 58 (Passerina). — Moh. et Zoll. Arch. p. ii. 65.— Meissn. Prodi: 551. — StelUi a G.icktn. 



Nat. Ges. Ned. Ind. (1844). 615 (Eriosolena) .— Frtiet. i. 186, t. 39. fig. 2 (not Gmel.).— Lijgia 



Seem. Fl. Vit. 206.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. 878; Fasax. Alt. Ace. Napol. (17N7), 'J35, t. 19. — 



Suppl. 141, 354 ; Ann. Mas. Litr/d. Bat. iii. 134. Piptochlaimjs C. A. Mey. Bull. S.-Péttrsb. iv. n. 



—Meissn. Prodr. 550, n. 9, 10 (Stellera).— i.—Chlami/danthus C. A. Mey. lac. cit. 



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



s L. Diss. Dassnn (1747), Amœn. i. 399 ; reddish, often small. 



Gen. (ed. 5), n. 439 ; (ed. 6), n. 488 (not 3 Spec, about 20. Clus. Hisp. Icon. 176.— 



Gjertn.). — C. A. Mey. Ball. S.-Pêtenb. iv. (Sanamunda). — Barrel. Icon. t. 221 (Sana- 



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



Meissn. Prodi: 548 (part.). — Chameejasme Amm. 512,519 (Stellera). — Fonts. Fl. JZgypt.-Arab. 



Ruth. 16, t. 2. SI (P(tss,rina).— Vaiil, Symb. i. 28; iii. 58. 



* White, yellow or reddish. 



