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tinctions given by Don may be summarised thus: — [ I), odora.... 
perianthiis leviter sericeis ; laciniis ovatis aeutis, stylo distincto, floret 
Oetobri et Decembri. Set Bvrooa vernacule nuncupatur Flores 
virescente-albi, odoratissimi. 
I). Bholua perianthiis pedicellatis extus serieeo-villosis ; laci- 
niis subrotundo-ovalibus retusis, stylo nullo. Floret Januario. Bholn 
Stva Nawauice. Frutex ramosissimus, magnitudine et facie omnino 
B. odora, cui arete affinis est, quue tamen discriminatur floribus ses- 
silibus, tubo perianthii versus basin solummodo sericeo, laciniis ovatis 
aeutis, stylo distincto.— Frodromus FI. Nepal, p. 68.] 
Don's use of the style as a distinguishing character has not com- 
mended itself to us in the field. After fertilisation, the developing ovary 
plumps itself up at the ‘shoulders ' and the length of the style is a vary- 
ing quantity, depending in great measure on the development of the 
ovary. The high-level plant in Sikkim [B. cannabina Wall.) varies as 
regards length of style and we note the same in the case of Khasian 
specimens {in sicco) related to Ijaphne Sureil which is the name we 
have proposed for the low-level Darjeeling shrub. These conclusions 
regarding B. cannabina are based on the examination of flowers from 28 
plants near Darjeeling, 38 on Senchal and 43 on Ghoom range. In all 
there is a short style, which becomes less and less distinct when the fruit 
begins to develop. In 2). Sureil the large size of the stigma tends to 
diminish to the eye the style which is scarcely shorter than in 1). can- 
nahina . Further we disagree with Don when he refers Wallieh's des- 
cription and figure definitely to his first species (Zb odora) ; the figure 
is in our view quite that of the second (Don's B. Bholua) and the des° 
eriptiois we have seen may include both. 
Subsequent authors do not add much to the elucidation of these two 
species of Buchanan-Hamilton. SteudeFs Noinenclator Botanicus (1821) 
gives the name I). papyracea Wall, but on what authority is unknown. 
In Griffith's Notulse IY, 370, (publ. 1854) we find attached to a 
description of a Khasian plant collected at Churra Ponjee in 1835 
“floribus capitatis albis subodoratis " the name i( Daphne cannabina 
Lour, vix B. indica , ex Donio." Meissner's account in DC. Frodromus 
XIY, p. 537, (1856), is based practically on Wallieh's and Don's data 
and to judge from the re-misquotation of the page (385 in Vol. XIII 
as in Don) in the Asiatic Researches, W aMich's figure and text were not 
available. B . Bholua is referred to as “species obscura, forsan a B . 
papyracea hand distincta. Wallieh's latifolia No. 1045 is accepted 
as a variety and a small leaved form is added 7 parvifolia from the 
Xh&siag. The figure of Decaisne in Jacq. Yoy. Bot. t. 148 is evidently 
