Daphne.| THYMELMACER, 333 
Scales hairy; ovary and capsule sessile or nearly so . . - Aquilaria. 
Scales glabrous ; ovary and capsule stalk . . - Gyrinops, 
x &X Perianth-throat naked, i. e., without scales. 
Perianth 4-merous ; fruit drupaceous, sappy . ‘ . Phaleria, 
DAPHNE, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth tubular or funnel-shaped, 
deciduous, 4-lobed, the throat without scales. Hypogynous disk 
obsolete or none. Anthers inserted in 2 superposed rows of 4 each, 
nearly sessile. Ovary 1-celled with a single ovule ; stigma capitate, 
sessile or nearly so. Drupe fleshy, succulent, or rarely coriaceous, 
l-seeded, the testa crustaceous. umen none or scanty. Embryo 
fleshy, with 2 plano-convex cotyledons.—Shrubs or very rarely little 
trees, with alternating leaves. Flowers usually in terminal or lateral 
heads or clusters often involucred. 
up to 8 lin. long, while in bud protected by a 2-phyllous involucre ; 
imvolucre-leaflets rotundate-oblong to oblong, minutely pubescent ; 
pes by several packed into a loose head, ovoid, at the base 
tapering and surrounded by long hairs, glabrous, unripe about 2 
lin. long. 
Haz.—In the damp hill forests of the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 
5,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation. —F). Apr.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
LINOSTOMA, Wall. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth bell-shaped, 5-lobed, persist- 
ent or deciduous, of a thin texture, at the throat furnished either 
with 10 free or 5 two-cleft glabrous scales. Stamens 10, almost in 
a single series and alternating with the perianth-scales. Hypogy- 
ous scales none. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, with a solitary pendulous 
ovule ; style capillary, with a capitate stigma. Nut dry, oval or 
ovate, appressed hairy and glabrescent, surrounded by the fragile 
very thi 
perianth and usually crowned with its limb. Seeds 
, , with a thin crustaceous pericarp. bumen none. Embryo 
minute, with 2 large half-obovate cotyledons.—Erect or half- 
scandent shrubs, wi i . Flowers in few-flowered 
umbellets on long peduncles furnished with 2 (occasionally up to 4) 
discoloured, floral leaves, 
