THYMEL^AOE^. 133 



Stamens 8, of which 4 are longer, further exserted : filaments subu- 

 late, alternating at insertion with 8 minute (sometimes withered) 

 teeth ; anthers basifixed introrse oblong obtuse. Germen sessile (of 

 Daphne) ; style scarcely lateral slender exserted, at apex stigmatose 

 scarcely capitellate. Fruit naked "baccate;" seed thinly albumi- 

 nous. — A glabrous shrub ; branches virgate ; bark thickened at nodes ; 

 leaves alternate veined, deciduous ; flowers i axillary cymose few 

 (2-4) or more rarely solitary. (North America.^) 



23. — Daphne L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous; tube of 

 tubular or subinfundibuliform, deciduous or sometimes persistent 

 calyx not solute ; lobes of i-partite limb equal, alternately imbricate 

 or more rarely tortuous ; throat esquamate. Stamens 8, inserted in 

 2 series under the throat, 4 of which are inferior, alternisepalous ; 

 anthers subsessile, enclosed or subenclosed, obldng or subsagittate, 

 introrse, 2-rimose.* Germen sessile or substipitate, girt at base 

 with small or very small, often annular, disk ; ovule 1, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior;* style terminal enclosed, short or 

 subnil, sometimes rather longer [Edgeworthia ^), at apex stigmatose 

 subclavate or oftener capitate. Fruit oftener naked or coriaceous, 

 sometimes enclosed by calyx ; testa of descending seed crustaceous ; 

 albumen little fleshy or ; cotyledons of inverted embryo fleshy 

 plano-convex ; radicle short superior. — Small trees or oftener shrubs ;^ 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, persistent or more rarely 

 deciduous, oftener entire coriaceous penninerved ; flowers* terminal 

 or lateral capitate, sometimes more rarely lateral, sessile or pedun- 

 culate, sometimes involucrate; inflorescence rarely compound- 



• Pale yellow early. Wall MSS. (not Poit.). — Mezeretim 0. A. 



' Spec. 1. D.palustHs L.— Pdksh, Fl. Bor.- Mey. Bull. S.-Fitersb. iv.^11. i. 



Amer. i. 268.— Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. 268.— * Pollen globose punctulate ; pores minute 



A. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 424. — Bot. Reg. t. 292. very close, H. Mohl {Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 



I gg„, n. 311. J. Oen. 77. Lamk. Diet. iii. 3*4), in Daphne ; sometimes in other genera 



434 • Suppl. iii. 314 ; III- 1. 290. — Wikstb,. Diss. {Giadia, Passerina, Dais, Pimelea). 



de Daphne (1817) ; Act. Holm. (1818), 294 » Integument double. 



(part.).— Nebs, Fl. Germ. f. vii. t. 1.— Spaoh, » Meissn. Fegensb. DenJcschr. iii. 280, t. 8 ; 



Suit, a Buffon, x. 438.— Endl. Gen. a. 2092 ; Prodr. 542 (not Falcon.)-— Endl. Gen. Suppl. 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2106? (part.).— Meissh-. He- iv. p. ii. n. 2106». 



gensb. Denkschr. iii. 282 ; Prodr. 630, 700.— 7 Liber of caustic bark textile very tena- 



Thymelecs T. Inst. 594 (part.), t. 366,— GiERTN. cious. 



Fruet. i. 188, t. Z^.—Scopolia L. r. Suppl. 60, » WTiite, golden or pink, more rarely green- 



409 (not Adans. nor Forst. nor jAca. nor ish, often early and ddorous. 



Sx.). — Eriosolena Bl. Bijdr.' 651. — Moumea 



