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[ Daphne . 
scales in the mouth. Stamens as many or twice as many adnate 
to the tube; filaments short. Disc annular or of scales or o. 
Ovary superior, i- to 2-celled; ovules i in a cell; style distinct; 
stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seed i in a cell. 
The bark usually very tough. Species about 360, whole world 
(Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxxv. (2), 256). 
Ovary 1-celled, i-ovulea; fruit a drupe. 
Shrubs or small trees. 
Leaves alternate, no disc, no perianth scales. . 1. Daphne 
Leaves opposite, disc of 1 to 4 scales, no perianth 
scales.2- Wikstrcgmia 
Climbers. 
Perianth lobes 5 ; stamens 10. 
Leaves opposite; stamens in one row; scales 10 3. Linostoma 
Leaves alternate; stamens in 2 rows; scales 5 . 4. Enkleia 
Ovary 2-celled; fruit capsular. Trees . . - 5 ' Aquilaria 
1 . DAPHNE, Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers bisexual in 
terminal or lateral heads (or racemes) often with involucral bracts. 
Perianth funnel-shaped or tubular; lobes 4, no scales in throat. 
Stamens in 2 rows of 4 each; filaments short. Ovary i-celled, 
i-ovuled; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a fleshy drupe, 
globose or ovoid. Seed 1. Species about 80, Europe, Asia, N. 
Africa. 
(1) D. pendula Sm. PI. Ic. hied . ii. 34. D. composita Gilg. 
Pflanzenfam. iii. 6 a, 238; Gamble, l.c. 257. 
Shrub or small tree, 8 to 12 ft. tall. Leaves membranous, 
lanceolate acuminate both ends; nerves 10 to 14 pairs, slender; 
nervules fine and conspicuous; 3 to 4-5 in. long, x to 2 in. wide, 
glabrous; petioles -i in. long. Flowers 5 to 7 in a head, sessile, 
densely white-hairy on a slender peduncle 1 in. long with 2 sub- 
orbicular caducous pink bracts. Perianth tubular, -3 in. long, 
lobes short, white, densely hairy. Drupe black, -2 in. long. Hob. 
Mountain forests; a charming shrub. Selangor, Bukit Kutu; 
Menuang Gasing (Kloss). Perak, Ulu Batang Padang; Thaiping 
Hills, Birch’s Hill (Wray, Kunstler, etc.); Bujong Malacca. 
Distrib. Burma, Sumatra, Java. 
2 . WIKSTRCEMIA, Endl. 
Shrubs or small trees with very tough bark. Leaves opposite. 
Flowers bisexual in axillary spikes, racemes or umbels, no bracts. 
Perianth-tube slender, elongate, lobes 4, throat naked, greenish 
yellow. Stamens 8 in 2 rows, upper near mouth, lower in mid¬ 
tube; filaments short. Stigma capitate. Drupe fleshy, red. 
Species about 20, tropical Asia and Australasia. 
