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capitate. Fruit a small berry drupe or capsule. Seed solitary or 
one in each cell, pendulous or lateral; albumen fleshy or 0; embryo 
straight ; cotyledons fleshy, usually thick; radicle short, superior.— 
Distris. About 40 genera, about 360 species, in temperate and 
tropical regions. 
Ovary l-celled, l-ovuled; fruit indehiscent (Tribe 1. 
EUTHYMELES). 
Perianth without scales, lobes 4; stamens as many 
as and opposite to the lobes or twice as many. 
Leaves alternate; hypogynous disk usually 0 .. 1. DapHne. 
Leaves usually opposite; hypogynous disk of 1— 
4 membranous seales .. .. 2. WIKSTRAMIA, 
Perianth with scales above the stamens, iobes 5; 
stamens twice as many as lobes. 
Stamens in one row; scales 10, free or connate in 
pairs, long .. 
eis ¥ .. 3. LINOSTOMA. 
Stamens in two rows; scales 5, bifid or bilobed, 
short re 36 5c .. 4, HENKLETA. 
Ovary 2-celled, cells l-ovuled; fruit a loculicidal 
capsule (Tribe II AQuimmARIzz) Bi .. 95. AQUILARIA. 
1. DapHne, L. 
Erect or prostrate shrubs, sometimes small trees. Leaves alter- 
nate, scattered or congested, evergreen or deciduous. Flowers herma- 
phrodite, in terminal or lateral sessile or peduncled heads or short 
racemes, the heads sometimes with involucrate bracts. Perianth 
tubular or funnel-shaped ; lobes 4, the throat withoutscales. Stamens 
in 2 superposed rows of 4 each; filaments short; anthers oblong. 
Disk hypogynous, tubular; often 0. Ovary 1-celled; ovule 1, pendu- 
lous; style short; stigma capitate. Fruct a fleshy or coriaceous 
drupe, globose or ovoid. Seed 1; testa crustaceous; albumen none 
or scanty; cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex.—Distris. About 80 
species, in subtropical and temperate Europe, Asia and N. Africa. 
DaPsaNe composira, Gilg in Engl. and Prantl. Naturl. Pflan- 
zeniam. III. 6 A. 238 (1894). A shrub or small tree reaching 3 to 6 
m. in height and 10 cm. in diam. of stem (Kunstler); branchlets 
slender, brown, with fibrous inner bark, glabrous. Leaves membra- 
nous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex and at base; 
glabrous, dark green above, pale or glaucescent beneath; 8—18 cm. 
long, 2—5 cm. broad; midrib slender, pale beneath; main nerves 
10—14 pairs, at first nearly at right angles with the midrib, curved 
near the margin where they anastomose; secondary nerves many, 
