Wikstroemia
(named after J. E. Wikstrom, 1780-1856, a Swedish botanist). ORD. Thymelaeaceae. A genus comprising about twenty species of stove or greenhouse shrubs or trees, natives of tropical and Eastern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Flowers shortly racemose or spicate at the tips of the branches; perianth having an elongated tube and four spreading lobes; stamens eight, included or shortly exserted. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate. W. Alberti is a greenhouse, deciduous, much-branched shrub, requiring similar culture to Thymelaea (which see, on p. 35). W. viridiflora-the bark of which yields a valuable paper material-is also in cultivation in botanical gardens. None of the species, however, are of any horticultural value. W. Alberti (Albert's). fl. golden, capitate-umbellate; umbels pedunculate at the tips of the branches and branchlets. l. scattered or rarely nearly opposite, obversely lanceolate, or very rarely the uppermost ones linear-oblong, 1/2in. to 1 1/2in. long, penninerved, rounded or rarely somewhat acute at apex. Branches glabrous, terete. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Bokhara, 1887. (R. G. 1262, under name of Stellera Alberti.)