134 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ramose or axillary racemose.^ {Temp. Europe and Asia, North. 

 Africa, Java.z) 



24. Ovidia Meissn.^ — Flowers nearly of Daphne, 4-merous, by 

 abortion 1 -sexual dioecious (?) ; throat of funnel-shaped, 4-lobed, 

 calyx, esquamate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, inserted in throat ; filaments 

 slender ; anthers (in female flower rudimentary) ov^ate introrse. 

 Gerlnen (in male flower sterile rudimentary), girt with 4 hypogynous 

 glandules; style lateral or subterminal exserted, apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Fruit "baccate piriform."* — Shrubs; leaves alternate 

 subcoriaceous, inflorescence and other characters of Daphne ; flowers* 

 subumbellate at top of terminal or lateral peduncle, ebracteate. 

 ( Western South America.^) 



25. Wikstroemia Endl.''' — Flowers (nearly of Daphne) herma- 

 phrodite, 4-merous ; calyx tubular or funuel-shaped ; throat naked ; 

 limb 4-fid, oftener separable from tube and deciduous. Anthers 8, 

 2-seriate, enclosed. Scales of hypogynous disk 4, free or connate ; 

 germen 1 -ovulate ; style terminal short or very short stigmatose- 

 capitate. Fruit baccate- or finally dry and other characters of 

 Daphne. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alternate, foliaceous 

 or subcoriaceous venose, deciduous ; inflorescence capitate or um- 



' Sect. (Meissn.) 5 : 1° Mezermm (Spach), i. 147 ; ii. 34, t. 1. — Wall. As. Sea. xiii. 388, t. 



leaves lierbaceous deciduoas ; calyx deciduous ; 9. — Sieb. Sook. Land. Joum. yi. 46 (^Edge- 



terry oftener fleshy. — 2" Daphnanthes (0. A. worthia). — Benth. M. Songk. 296. — Jaub. et 



Mey. ; Cneoroides Spach, III. PI. Or. t. 305), Spach, III. Fl. Or. t 303-306.— Mia. Fl. Ind.- 



leaTes persiitent ; flowers terminal ; calyx sub- Bat. i. 877 ; Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 133, 



persistent. — 3° Giiidium (Spach), leaves annual ; 135 {Edgeivorthia). — Gren. et Godk. Fl. de Fr. 



racemes terminal ramose, ebracteate; calyx iii. 57. — Bot. Beg, t. 1177; (1847), t. 48. — 



finally deciduous. — 4° Zaureola (Spach; Lau- Bot. Mag. t. 206, 313, 1282, 1876. — Walp. 



reoloides Spach), leaves coriaceous perennial Ann. i. 682. 

 coetaneous ; racemes axillary. — 6" EriosoUna ' Prodr. 624 (not Eatin.). 



(Bl. ; Scopolia L. p.), leaves coriaceous; oapi- * C. Gat, Fl. Chil. v. 314. 



tules lateral pedunculate involucrate ; sepals * Greenish or yellow. 



often tortuous ; to whicli add.— 6" Edgewortkia ^ Spec. 4. H. B. Syn. PI. .^quin. i. 447, 



(Meissn.), leaves highly coetaneous, head pe- (Daphne).— ^. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 151 



dunculate in uppermost axUs, style rather long {Daphne). — P(kpp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 



subclavate; anthers subsagittate. ii. 60, t. 191 {Daphne). 



' Spec, about 35. Pall. Fl. Boss. i. 53, t. 7 Prodi: Fl. Norfolk. 47 ; Geo. n. 2106 ; Suppl. 



35. — LouE. Fl. Coehinch. (ed. 1790), 236.— iv. p. ii. n. 2106'.— Meissn. DenRschr. Se- 



Sohkeb. Dec. i. 13, t. 7.— Vahl, Sgmb. i. 28.— gensb. Bot. Ges. iii. 286; Prodr. 543.— Deone. 



Tbatt. Arch. i. 120, t. 133.— Thunb. Fl. Jap. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 144, t. 149.— C. A. Met. 



159.- Bl. Bijdr. 651. — Sm. Spicil. ii. t. 18; Bull. S.-PUersb. iv. n. 4 (not Schrad. nor 



Ic. ined. ii. 34, t. 34. — Sieb. et Zucc. Abh. Spkeng.).— Copara L. Mantiss. 224 (not Bl.). 



Math.-Phys. Kl. Ba:er. Ak. iv. p. iii. 199 ; Fl. —Diplomorpha Meissn. BenTischr. Regensb. iii. 



Jap. i. 137, t. 75.— LiNDL. Journ. Mort. Soc. 289. 



