Thymelacte— Daphne. 395 
7. D. Cneorum.—A trailing much-branched shrub with 
linear obtuse mucronate glabrous persistent leaves and bright 
rose flowers. This is the handsomest of the hardy species, and 
produces its exquisitely fragrant flowers in great profusion in 
early Spring. It is a very free grower and deserves a place in 
the smallest garden. 
Orver XCVI—PROTEACEA. 
A large order of shrubs and trees of extremely diverse and 
curious habit and foliage. Flowers often very brilliant, 
axillary or racemose, or in dense terminal spikes. Perianth 
inferior, 4-lobed or -toothed; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 4, 
opposite the perianth-lobes. Fruit usually dry and woody, 
dehiscent or indehiscent, 1-celled, 1- or more seeded. Nearly 
all the members of this order occur in Australia and South 
Africa, a few only extending to South America, and northward 
in the Old World to Abyssinia, India, and Japan. None of the 
species are quite hardy with us, though some may withstand 
the ordinary winters of the south-western counties of England. 
Embothriwm coceineum, a native of South America, is one of 
the hardiest. It is a shrub with simple entire oblong leaves 
and long pendent orange-scarlet flowers. The perianth is 
tubular with a sub-globose 4-cleft limb bearing the sessile 
anthers on the concave lobes. revillea robista, Stenocdrpus 
Cunninghamii, Perséonia Toru, Knightia excélsa, Hakea spp. 
and Rhopala spp., etc., are handsome shrubs for Summer 
decoration 
Orper XCVIL—ELAHAGNACEA:. 
Trees or shrubs often clothed with a scaly indumentum. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, exstipulate. Flowers 
usually small, regular, unisexual or bisexual, disposed in 
axillary clusters, panicles or catkins. Male flowers amentaceous, 
solitary in the axil of a bract, with a 2- or 4-lobed perianth. 
Female and hermaphrodite flowers with a free tubular perianth. 
Stamens 3, 4 or 8, sessile. Fruit superior, 1-celled, 1-seeded, 
enclosed in the perianth-tube; seed erect. A small order 
consisting of four genera and about thirty species, for the 
greater part natives of the northern hemisphere. 
