TUYMEL^AGEM. 135 



hellate,! axillary or terminal, solitary or more rarely oorymboso- 

 ramose. [Trop. and suhtrop. Asia, Oceania.^) 



26. Stellera Gimel.^— Flowers (nearly of Daphne) hermaphrodite, 

 4-6-merous; calyx hypocrateriform, articulate above the germen, 

 deciduous ; throat esquamate. Stamens 8-12, inserted in 2-series 

 under the throat ; anthers 'enclosed or superior semiexserted. 

 Germen subsessile, barbate at apex, girt at base with annular or 

 cup-shaped membranous-, sometimes oblique disk ; style terminal or 

 lateral, shorter than germen, and at apex stigmatose hispidulo- 

 papillose subovoid. Fruit nucular, loosely clothed with persistent 

 tumescent base of calyx ; pericarp thin crustaceous ; seed scantily 

 albuminous. — Small shrubs or perennial herbs ; leaves alternate 

 lanceolate; flowers* terminal racemose, spicate or subcapitate. 

 {West. Middle and North. Asia.^) 



27. Thymelsea T.^ — Flowers (nearly o^ Stellera or Daphne) herma- 

 phrodite or sometimes 1 -sexual ; calyx (coloured or herbaceous) 

 infundibuliform or urceolate-tubular, persistent or tardily deciduous ; 

 throat esquamate. Stamens 8, inserted in 2 series in the tube ; the 

 higher enclosed or exserted. Germen destitute of hypogynous disk ; 

 style terminal or. oftener lateral very short, apex stigmatose capitate. 

 Fruit nucular, naked or oftener enclosed by calyx ; seed but little or 

 not at all albuminous. — Herbaceous' subshrubby or oftener shrubby 

 plants ; leaves alternate ; flowers '' axillary solitary or glomerate 

 few, bracteolate. {Central and South. Europe, North Africa, North, 

 and West. Asia.^) 



> Sometinies excrescent from axis, aubspicate. ' Spec, about 8. Wikstr. Act. Holm. (1818), 



2 Spec, about 22. L. Spec.i. 611 (^Daphne).— 321 ( Passm«a). —Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 5i6 (P<m- 



FoKST. Prodr. n. ]6S {Daphne).— iMis^. Fl. s«)'i«o).— Jaub. et Spach, /tf. PZ. Or iv. t. 301, 



Coch. (ed. 1790), 236 (D«;)Ah«).— Blanco, Fl. 302 . — Meissn. Deii/cschr. Segemh. iii. 287 



rf« Filip. ed. i, 309 {Daphne). — Benth. iTooA. {Wikstrcamia). 



Journ. (1853), 195.— Bunge, Fnum. Fl. Chin. « Inst. 594 (part.).— Ekdl. Oen. Suppl. iv. 



Bor. 58 (Pa*KW«a). — MoE. et Zoll. Arch. p. ii. 65.— Meisrn. Pro*-. 551.- SilefeaGjEiiTN. 



Nat. Ges. Ned. Ind. (1844), 615 [Friosolena).— Fruct.i. 186,t. 39. fig. 2 (not Gmel.).— i.y^io 



Seem. J;. rit.206.—iliQi..Fl.Ind.-Bat.i. 878; Fasan. Att. Ace. Napol. (1787), 235, t. 19.— 



Suppl. 141, 354 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 134. Fiptoehlamys C. A. Mey. Bull. S.-Pitersb. iv. n. 



— Meissn. Prodr. 650, n. 9, 10 {Stellera).— i.—Chlamydanthus C. A. Met. loc. cit. 



Walp. Ann. i. 589. ' Greenish or yello-w, more rarely -white or 



' L: Diss. Dasson (1747), Amcsn. i. 399 ; reddish, often small. 



Gen. (ed. 6), n. 439 ; (ed. 6), m. 488 (not 8 gpec, about 20. Clus. Sisp. Icon. 176.— 



GiERTN.).— 0. A. Mey. Bull. S.-PSter^b. iv. {Smamunda).— Barrel. Icon. t. 221 {Sana- 



n. 4.— Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2098.— munda).—!,. Spec. (ed. 1), 356, 609 .{Daphne), 



Msism. Prodr. 5i8 {paxt.).— Ohamcejasme Amu. 512,619 {Stellera).— FoiitK. Fl. JSgypt.-Arab. 



ie««. 16, t. 2. 81 (P«»«n»a).— Vahl, Symb. i. 28; m. 58, 



■* White, yello-w or reddish. 



