Some are found at the Cape of Good Hope, and others in the island of Madagascar; but the best kinds for the purpose grow in these very mountains, and in China.

There is the `Daphne Bholua,' in Nepaul; from which the Nepaulese make a strong, tough, packing-paper; and I have reason to believe that it also grows in the Bhotan Himalayas--at no very great distance from our position here.
Besides, in China and Japan, on the other side of these mountains, there are two or three distinct kinds of the same plant--out of which the Chinese make the yellowish-coloured paper, you may have seen in their books, and pasted upon their tea-chests.

So then," added the botanist, looking wistfully towards the woods, "since the paper-yielding daphne grows in China, to the east of us, and in Nepaul and Bhotan to the west, it is but reasonable to conclude that some species of it may be found in this valley--where the climate is just that which it affects.

Its seed may have been transported hither by birds: since many species of birds are fond of its berries, and eat them without receiving any injury; though, strange to say, they are poisonous to all kinds of quadrupeds!" "Do you think you would know the shrub, if you saw it, brother ?" "Well, to say the truth, I do not think I could recognise it by its general appearance; but if I had a flower of the _daphne_, I could no doubt tell it by its botanical characteristics.

The leaves of the paper-yielding species are of a lanceolate form and purplish hue, glabrous and shining, like the leaves of laurels--to which genus the _daphne_ is closely allied.