Daphne] XCIV. THYMEL^ACE^ 545 



pubescent. L. glabrous, lanceolatej blade 3-5, narrowed into marginate 

 petiole \ in. long. El. sweet-scented, white or lilac, in terminal lieads of 6-12^ 

 surrounded by numerous oblong or lanceolate bracts. Perianth-tube | in. long^ 

 pubescent outside. Er. ovoid, succu.lent, acrid, \-^ in. long, orange o*r red. 



Himalaya, from Cliamba eastwards, 5-10,000 ft. Kiiasi hills. Maiiipur. Hills east 

 of Bhamo 7,000 ft. A large tree (Montague Hill). El. Oet.-Eeb. Paper is made of 

 tlie inner fibrous bark. D. cannahina is possibly a local variety of D. odora, Tliunb.^ 

 of China and Japan. 



B. El. heads pedunculate, in bud enclosed in concave bracts. 



3. D. involucrata, Wall. Sikkim, outer bills to 6,000 ft. Khasi bills. Patkoi range. 

 Hills of Martaban and Tenasserim 4-6,000 ft. A tall shrub, attaining 20 ft., fl. heads 

 on peduncles up to 1 in. long, before opening enclosed in 2 coloured concave bracts, fl. 

 densely silky J-g ^^^ Xong, white, limb pink, fr. black. 4. D. pendula, Smith. Java, 

 Sumatra. Closely allied to 8, peduncles longer, slender, £. smaller. 



EdgewortMa Gardneri, Meissn. Nepal (common, Aryili, paper made of the inner* 

 bark). Sikkim, 3-7,000 ft. Assam. Manipiir.^hina. Japan. A large shrub, branches 

 long, scrambling, 1. lanceolate, pubescent beneath, blade 3-5, narrowed into pet. J in. 

 long. PL golden-yellow, sweet-scented, densely crowded in pedunculate heads, perianth 

 densely silky, ovary villous. 



2. WIKSTROEMIA, EndL ; El. Brit. Ind. v. 195. 



Deciduous trees or shrubs, 1. usually opposite. Perianth tubular, lobes 4^ 

 anthers 8, ovary villous, style short, stigma large, globose. Disk of 1-4 scales. 

 Er. dry or fleshy. Species 20, Eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific islands. 



1. W. canescens, Meissn.— Syn. W. virgata, Meissn. ; Bedd. Manual t.25,f.4. ; Brandis 

 F. Fl. 386. Yern. Ckambol, Jauns. ; Chamlia, N.W. Him. Kuram valley, common. 

 N. W. Himalaya, 5-9,000 ft. Khasi hills. Upper Burma. In Kumaon ropes and 

 paper are made of the' inner bark.— Ceylon, China. A small shrub, branches slender, 

 branohlets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflorescence silky, 1. membranous, alternate 

 and opposite, oblong-lanceolate, blade 1-3, pet. J in. Fl. yellow, in axillary and term- 

 inal peduncled few-fid. racemes oi- panicles. Perianth J-| in. long, silky outside, disk 

 scales linear. Fr. black, J in. long, silky, pericarp thin. 2. W. indica, C. A. Mey. 

 —Syn. PF. mridifioraj Meissn. Chittagong. Shan hills, Upper Burma. Tenasserim. 

 China, 1. opposite, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, obovate-oblong 1-1 J in. long, sec. n. 

 numerous slender, oblique. Fl. greenish-yellow, perianth glabrous. Fr. J in. long,, 

 scarlet. 



Lasiosiphon erioceplialus, Dene. : Bedd. Man. t. 25, f, 2. — Syn. Gnidia eriocephaJa^ 

 Meissn. ; Wight Ic. t. 1859 ; G. sisparensis, Gardn. ; "Wight Ic. 1. 1860. Vern. Mamifa, 

 Mar. West side of the Peninsula and Western Grhats, from Mahabaleshwar southwards. 

 Ceylon, paper made of the bark. A large shrub or small tree, 1. subsessile, lanceolate- 

 oblong, opposite or scattered, 2-3 in. long. Fl. thickly clothed with white or buff long 

 silky villous liairs, in dense globose heads 1-2 in. diam., supported by silky involucial 

 bracts shorter than fl. Perianth yellow J-f in. long, scales in its mouth, alternating 

 with the lobes, variable in shape, oblong, obcordate or bifid. Fr. dry, included in the 

 lower persistent half of the perianth (hollow receptacle). 



3. LINOSTOMA, Wall.; M. Brit. Ind. v. 197. 



Shi^ubs, erect or climbing, 1. opposite or nearly so. FL bisexual, in com- 

 pound cymes. Perianth-tube cylindric, lobes 5, spreading, 10 scales in the 

 mouth above the stamens, free or connate in pairs. Stamens 10 in one row at 

 the mouth of perianth, exserted, filaments much longer than anthers. Ovary 

 1 -celled, style filiform. Albumen or scanty. Species 3 Indian, 3 {Lophostoma^ 

 Meissn.) in Northern Brazil. 



A. Erect shrubs, glabrous, sec. n. oo, closely parallel. 



1, L. decandrum, Wall. ; Engler u. Prantl iii. 6a 232, fig. 82. Silhet. Chittagongy 

 Tenasserim (Kurz). Evergreen, branches numerous dichotomous, 1. ovate- or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, long acuminate, blade 2-3, pet. ^ in. long. PL greenish-white, fragrant,, 

 fr. J in. long, at the base usually with the remains of the perianth which splits length* 

 wise. 2. S. pauciflorum, G-rijff. Hills east of Toungoo 3-4,000 ft., common in the forests- 

 of Finus Kmya. Malay Penins. and Archip. f . elliptic to obovate, 1-lJ in. long* 

 Pr. enclosed in the persistent thin perianth-tube. 



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