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Thymelaeaceae 



IB. Inflorescence in terminal racemes or spikes, sometimes in panicles, bractless; disc of one or more scales; leaves usually opposite, some- 

 times alternate 3. Wikstroemia 



1. DAPHNE L. JiNCHOGE Zoku 



Evergreen or deciduous shrubs; inflorescence capitate or short-racemose, sometimes paniculate; flowers bisexual or unisexual 

 (plants sometimes dioecious) ; calyx-lobes 4, the tube cylindric, often dilated at base, without an appendage in the throat; sta- 

 mens 8, inserted on the calyx-tube, the filaments very short, the anthers oblong, the connective indistinct; disc absent or annular, 

 sometimes lobed on one side; ovary 1-locular, sessile or nearly so; style often absent, the stigma capitate; berry globose or oblong, 

 sometimes surrounded by the persistent calyx -tabe, sometimes naked; testa crustaceous, the endosperm scanty or absent; cotyle- 

 dons fleshy. About 50 species, in Europe and Asia. 



lA. Leaves coriaceous, lustrous, evergreen, deep green; branchlets dark purple-brovim; flowers vi'hite. 



2 A. Calyx-tube short-pilose externally; inflorescence terminal on last year's branchlets 1. D. k.itisiana 



2B. Calyx-tube glabrous externally; inflorescence on current year's branchlets 2. D. miyabeana 



IB. Leaves membranous, appearing in autumn, deciduous in summer, green or glaucous; branchlets gray-brown; flowers yellowish. 



3A. Leaves oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. wide, rather acute to obtuse; flowers greenish yellow 3. D. pseudomezereum 



3B. Leaves narrowly cuneate-obovate, 2-3 cm. wide, rounded to retuse widi a minute mucro at apex; flowers yellow. 



4. D. \amtschaUca var. jezoensis 



1. Daphne Idusiana Miq. D. odora var. \iusiana (Miq.) in high mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr. and 

 Keissler; D. cannabina sensu auct. Japon., non Wall. northw.) ; rare. 



Kosh6-no-ki. Evergreen dioecious shrub, glabrous except 3. Daphne pseudomezereum A. Gray. Oni-shibari, 

 the inflorescence; leaves alternate, rather sofdy coriaceous, Natsu-bozu. Glabrous, dioecious shrub with thick gray- 

 lustrous, oblanceolate, 7-14 cm. long, 1.2-3.5 cm. wide, acute to brown branches; leaves oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 8-20 mm. 

 acuminate with an obtuse tip, gradually narrowed to the base, wide, obtuse, acute, or rounded at apex, slightly glaucous, 

 entire, short-petiolate; flowers white, in dense terminal heads gradually narrowed to a short petiole; inflorescence a few- 

 on last year's branchlets, the pedicels very short, finely white- flowered, sessile, axillary head, nearly terminal on the branch- 

 puberulous; calyx tube 7-8 mm. long, short-pilose externally, lets; flowers yellowish green, the pedicels very short; calyx- 

 the lobes spreading, about half as long as the tube; stamens 8, lobes narrowly ovate, about half as long as the tube, the tube 

 in 2 series, the anthers of the upper series half-exserted from 6-8 mm. long; stamens 8, in 2 series, the anthers of upper 

 the throat; berry red, ellipsoid-globose, about 8 mm. long; series semi-exserted from the throat; berry red, ellipsoidal, 



seeds ellipsoidal, about 6 mm. long. Apr. Honshu (s. about 8 mm. long, usually 2-seeded. ^Mar.-Apr. Moun- 



Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus. tains; Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. 



Closely related to D. odora. 4. Daphne kamtschatica Maxim, var. jezoensis 



Daphne odora Thunb. D. japonica Thunb. Jinchoge. (Maxim.) Ohwi. D. jezoensis Maxim. Naniwazu. Gla- 



Chinese shrub commonly cultivated in our area, slightly larger brous, dioecious shrub with thick, terete, pale yellow-brown 



than D. \iusiana in all respects; flowers larger, white or rose- branchlets; leaves rather thick, cuneate-obovate to narrowly 



purple outside, glabrous; plants cultivated in this country are ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, rounded to obtuse, sometimes 



staminate. retuse with a minute mucro at apex, cuneately narrowed to a 



2. Daphne miyabeana Makino. Karasu-shikimi. short petiole, vivid green or slightly glaucous on upper side, 

 Small evergreen shrub often puberulous on young branchlets; glaucous beneath; inflorescence axillary, sessile, usually more 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. than 10-flowered, glabrous; flowers yellow, on very short pedi- 

 wide, acute to acuminate with an obtuse or subacute tip, eels, the staminate slighdy larger; calyx-lobes ovate, those of 

 dark green above, entire, glabrous, usually lustrous, gradually the upper series 4-5 mm. long, slighdy shorter than the tube, 

 narrowed to a short petiole; heads terminal on current year's the calyx-tube 5-8 mm. long, glabrous, greenish, with 8 ob- 

 branchlets, puberulous; flowers white, on very short pedicels; tuse longitudinal ridges; stamens 8, in 2 series, the anthers 

 calyx-tube 5-6 mm. long, glabrous externally, the lobes spread- bright yellow, semi-exserted from the throat, the pollen orange- 



ing, ovate, 3-nerved; stamens 8, in 2 series, the anthers of yellow; ovary glabrous. Apr .-May. Hokkaido, Honshu 



upper series semi-exserted from the throat; ovary glabrous; (Japan Sea side as far west as Noto Prov.). The typical 



berry ellipsoidal, about 8 mm. across, vermilion. Rocks phase occurs in Sakhalin, Kuriles, Ussuri, and Kamchatka. 



2. EDGEWORTfflA Meisn. Mitsumata Zoku 



Deciduous shrubs with membranous, alternate, entire leaves; inflorescence a dense axillary head on branches of the preceding 

 year; flowers bracteate, bisexual; calyx-lobes 4, the mbe cylindric, white-pubescent externally, without appendage in throat; 

 stamens 8, in 2 series on the calyx-tube, the filaments very short, the anthers oblong; disc annular, very short, slighdy lobed; 

 ovary sessile, 1-locular, hairy; stigma elongate, linear, papillose; fruit surrounded by the persistent calyx-tube, scarcely fleshy. 

 Two species, one in India, another in e. Asia. 



1. Edgeworthia papyrifera Sieb. & Zucc. E. chrysan- 

 tha sensu auct. Japon., non Lindl.; E. tomentosa Nakai, excl. 

 syn. Mitsumata. Ternately branched shrub with rather 



thick yellow-brown branches appressed-pubescent while young; 

 leaves membranous, lanceolate to broadly so, 8-15 cm. long, 

 2-4 cm. wide, acute to acuminate, acuminate at base, ap- 



