Daphne.] thymele^. 297 



but the fine specimens vfe have now received from Wilford show that it differs considerably 

 from the north Chinese D. Genkma, Sieb. and Zucc, or D. Fortunei, Lindl., especially in the 

 lobes of the perianth, which are very small, and apparently of a pure white. 



3. WIKSTBGEMIA, Endl. 



Perianth tubular, with a spreading 4-lobed limb, without scales at the 

 throat. Anthers 8, sessile in 3 rows near the top of the tube. Hypogynous 

 scales 4, or 3. Ovary with 1 pendulous ovule. Fruit a berry. Seed without 

 albumen. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate. Mowers 

 in short terminal or axillary racemes or spikes. 



A small tropical Asiatic or Australian genua. 



leaves obovate or oblong, mostly obtuse. Spikes sessile or nearly so . 1. W. viridijtora. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate. Spikes pedunculate, nodding . . %. W. nutans. 



1. W. ▼iridiflora, Meisn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 546. A glabrous much 

 branched shrub. Leaves nearly sessile, from obovate and very obtuse to 

 oblong and almost acute, |- to \\ in. long. Spikes vei-y short, terminal or 

 nearly so, usually quite glabrous, without bracts. Perianth greenish-yellow, 

 the tube about 3 lines, the lobes about half that length. Hypogynous scales 

 4, but usually united in pairs so as to appear 3. Stigma large, on a very 

 short style. Berry scarlet, ovoid, about 3 lines long. Seed without albu- 

 men. — W. alpina, var., Benth. in Kew Joum. Bot. v. 195. 



Common on the hills, Hinds, Champion, and others. Also on the adjoining continent, in 

 Chittagong and Singapore. 



3. W. nutans. Champ, in Kew Joum. Bot. v. 195. A glabrous shrub 

 like the last. Leaves ovate or broadly oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, and always 

 acuminate. Spikes terminal, rather looser than in W. mridiflora, and always 

 nodding on a recurved peduncle of about \ in. Flowers and fruit of W. viri- 

 diflara, but larger, the perianth-tube fuU 4 lines long. 



Hills about the Happy Valley, Champion, in the woods of the valley, Wilford; also 

 Wright. Not known from elsewhere. 



4. AQXTILABIA, Lam. 



Perianth campanulate, 6-lobed, with 10 scales united in a ring at the 

 throat. Stamens 1 0, inserted at the throat within the ring. No hypogynous 

 disk. Ovary completely or partially 2-ceUed, with 1 pendulous ovule in each 

 cell. Stigma sessile. Capsule flat, almost woody, opening loculicidally in 

 3 flat valves, with the narrow dissepiment in their centre. Seed produced at 

 the base into a long hom-hke appendage. — Trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 in short terminal racemes. 



A small tropical Asiatic genns. 



1. A. grandiflora, Benth., n. sp. Young shoots and inflorescence sKghtly 

 hoary. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, glabrous, 

 on very short petioles. Flowers few, on pedicels of i to near \ in. Perianth- 

 tube fuU 3 lines ; the lobes rather longer, ovate, spreading. Ovary ovate, very 

 hairy, not so completely 2 -celled as in A. agallochum. Fruit obovate, about 

 1 in. long, hoary or tomentose, 3-celled. Appendage of the seed twice as 

 long as the seed itself, dilated upwai'ds, but suddenly contracted close under 

 the seed. — A. maloccensis, Benth. in Kew Joum. v. 195, but not of Lam. 



