Daphne] XCIY. THYMEDEACE.E 545 



pubescent. L. glabrous, lanceolate, blade 3-5, narrowed into marginate 

 petiole \ in. long. Fl. sweet-scented, white or lilac, in terminal heads of 6-12, 

 surrounded by numerous oblong or lanceolate bracts. Perianth-tube A in. long, 

 pubescent outside. Fr. ovoid, succulent, acrid, \-h in. long, orange or red. 



Himalaya, from Chamba eastwards, 5-10,000 ft. Khasi hills. Manipiir. Hills east. 

 of Bhamo 7,000 ft. A large tree (Montague Hill). Fl. Oct.-Feb. Paper is made of 

 the inner fibrous bark. D. cannabina is possibly a local variety of D. odora, Thunb., 

 Of China and Japan. 



B. Fl. heads pedunculate, in bud enclosed in concave bracts. 



3. D. involucrata, Wall. Sikkim, outer hills to 6,000 ft. Khasi hills. Patkoi range. 

 Hills of Martaban and Tenasserim 1-6,000 ft. A tall shrub, attaining 20 ft., fl. heads 

 on peduncles up to 1 in. long, before opening enclosed in 2 coloured concave bracts, tl. 

 densely silky J-p, in. long, white, limb pink, fr. black. 4. D. pendula, Smith. Java. 

 Sumatra. I llosely allied to 3, peduncles longer, slender, fl. smaller. 



Edgeworthia Gardneri, Meissn. Nepal (common, Aryili, paper made of the inner 

 bark;. Sikkim, 3-7.000 ft. Assam. Manipiir. China. Japan. A large shrub, branches 

 long, scrambling, 1. lanceolate, pubescent beneath, blade 3-5, narrowed into pet. J in. 

 long. Fl.golden-j el low, sweet-scented, densely crowded in pedunculate heads, perianth 

 densely -ilky. ovary villous. 



2. WIKSTRCEMIA, Eudl. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 195. 



Deciduous trees or shrubs, 1. usually opposite. Perianth tubular, lobes 4, 

 anthers 8, ovary villous, style short, stigma large, globose. Disk of 1-4 scales. 

 Fr. dry or flesh}". Species 20, Eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific islands. 



1. W. canescens, Meissn. — Syn. W. virgala, Meissn. : Iiedd. Manual t.25, f. 1.; Brandis 

 l\ Fl. 386. Veru. Chamboi, Jauus. ; Cliamlia, N.W. Him. Kuram valley, common. 

 X. W. Himalaya, 5-0,000 ft. Khasi hills. Upper Burma. In Kumaon ropes and 

 paper are made of the inner bark. — Ceylon, China. A small shrub, branches slender, 

 branch lets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflorescence silky. 1. membranous, alternate 

 opposite, oblong-lanceolate, blade 1-3, pet. Jin. Fl. yellow, in axillary and term- 

 inal peduneled few-nd. racemes or panicles. Perianth J-J in. long, silky outside, disk 

 scales linear. Fr. black, \ in. long, silky, pericarp thin. 2. W. indica, C. A. Mey. 

 — Syn. W. viridiflora, Meissn. Chittagong. Shan hills, Upper Burma. Tenasserim. 

 China, I. opposite, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, obovate-oblong 1-1 A in. long, sec. n. 

 numerous slender, oblique. Fl. greenish-yellow, perianth glabrous. Fr. J in. long, 

 scarlet. 



Lasiosiphon eriocephalus, Dene. : Bedd. Man. t. 25, f. 2. — Syn. Gnidia eriocephala, 

 Meissn.; Wight [c. t. 1859; Q. sitparensi s, G aid n.; Wight Ic. 1. 1860. Vern. Ramitn, 

 Mar. West side of the Peninsula and Western Ghats, from Mahabaleshwar southwards. 

 Ceylon, paper made of the bark. A large shrub or Muall tree, I. subsessile, lanceolate- 

 oblong, opposite or scattered, 2— 8 in. long. Fl. thickly clothed with white or buff long 

 silky villous hairs, in dense globose heads 1-2 in. diam., supported by silky involucre I 



bracts shorter than fl. Perianth yellow J-J in. long, scales in its nth, alternating 



with the lobes, variable in shape, oblong, obcordate or bifid. Fr. dry. included in the 

 lower persistent half of the perianth (hollow receptacle). 



3. LINOSTOMA, Wall.: PI. Brit. Ind. v. L97. 



Shrubs, erect or climbing, 1. opposite or nearly so. Fl. bisexual, in com- 

 pound cyraes. Perianth-tube cylindric, lobes 5, spreading, in scales in the 

 mouth aliove the stamens, free or connate in pairs. Stamens 10 in one row at 

 the mouth of perianth, exserted, filaments much longer than anthers. Ovary 

 1-celled, style filiform. Albumen 0or scanty. Species 3 Indian, 3 {Loplwatoma, 

 Meissn, La Northern Brazil. 



A. Erect shrubs, glabrous, sec. n. oo, closely parallel. 



1. L decandrum, Wall. -. Engler u. Prantl iii. 6a 282, fig. 82. Silhet. Chittagong, 

 Tenasserim i Km/. . Evergreen, branches numerous dichotomous, I. ovate- or elllptic- 



lani late, long acuminate, blade 2 B, pat. ,\ in. long- PL greenish-white, fragrant, 



ir. '. in, long, al the base usually with the remains of the perianth which splits length- 

 wise. 2. s. pauclflorum, tiritl'. Sills east of Toungoo 8 1,000 ft., common in the forests 



of I'iims Kenya, Malay IViiins. and Ar.hip. 1.. elliptic to ubovate, 1-1$ iu. long. 

 Fr. enclosed in the persistent thin perianth-tube. 



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