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DÀPHNE odora; var. rubra.
Red-flowered Fragrant Daphne.
Linnean Class and Order. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
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leola.
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D. c i n a b f n i ^ w ì l l in asiat. res. \3 .p . 315 (cum icone).
g. rubra, floribus rubns.
An erect evergreen, bushy shrub, about 2 feet high.
Branches glabrous, covered with a
alternate sessile lanceolate, or cuneately lanceolate, acute,
I t i S a n d ^-ecurved at the edges, coriaceous, glabrous
dark green and shining above, paler beneath with a
p r o S n S ; mftdrib, 3 or 4 inches long, an in
totenuated towards the base. Flowers
nearly sessile, glomerate. Perianthium oi 3. r\ p ’
“p lJ g lv oloihed , i . l . silty h a i„ , 3 ^
dricalTiimb 4-p.rted, rather *™ te r than the ubc segme^^^^
ovate-oblong, blunt, glabrous, the edges inv ■, A , ^
a tth e ap ex .^ Stamms 8, „ ¡ f
slender, cylindrical, glabrous, very short, g^een s y •
Anthers linear-oblong, mucronulate, the cells parallel, ora g ,
attached to the inner surface of a pale-green, S k
tivum. OuariMTO ovate, green, seated on a \e y . ;
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