206 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
obseurely pilose branchlets. Stipules very minute; leaves firm 
and thick in texture, 3-1 in. long, deltoid at the base, entire, dull 
green and obscurely pilose above, covered with a dense coating 
of persistent brownish-white tomentum beneath, the veins and 
veinlets conspieuously raised. Flowers in copious capitate con- 
gested terminal racemes about 3 in. long, with small cymes from 
the axils of the top leaves; pedicels very short, densely pilose ; 
bracts minute, lanceolate. Calyx j in. long, densely canescent ; 
teeth 4, deltoid, half as long as the Papa tube. Corolla 
with a densely canescent cylindrical tube 4 in. long and 4 small 
orbicular spreading yellowish-brown lobes. Anthers oblong, 
sessile near the top of the corolla-tube. Capsule small, oblong, 
pilose.—Central Madagascar, Baron 1830! A near ally of the 
Cape B. auriculata, Benth. 
BUDDLEIA AXILLARIS, Willd. in Roem. et Schultes, Syst. ii. 
Mant. 97. 
Fruticosa, ramulis 4-angulis, stipulis parvis foliaceis orbicularibus per- 
sistentibus, foliis petiolatis oblongis acuminatis denticulatis membranaceis 
utrinque viridibus glabris, racemis densis patulis subsessilibus axillaribus 
sepissime simplicibus, pedicellis calyci aquilongis, calcyis tenuiter incani 
tubo campanulato dentibus deltoideis, corolla tubo recto obscure incano 
segmentis 4 orbicularibus, staminibus sessilibus, fructu oblongo. 
A shrub, with distinetly 4-angled long simple branches. 
Stipules small, foliaceous, persistent, orbieular. Leaves oblong, 
membranous, 3-4 in. long, 14 in. broad, denticulate, rounded at 
the base, green and glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers in copious 
dense nearly sessile usually simple racemes 1-14 in. long from 
the axils of the leaves; rhachis and pedicels thinly canescent ; 
bracts small, lanceolate. Calyx 4 in. long, thinly canescent. 
Corolla with a thinly canesceut straight cylindrical tube 3 in. 
long and 4 small orbicular pale-coloured segments. dece 
sessile near the top of the corolla-tube. Capsule oblong, twice as 
long as the calyx.— Between Tankay and the east coast, Baron 
1481 ! and a variety with larger leaves, cordate at the base and 
thinly coated with white tomentum beneath, Baron 1980! This 
very distinct species has only been characterized very imperfectly. 
There is a closely allied species in Johanna island (B. comorensis, 
Baker, MSS.), lately refound by Hildebrandt (1666), which differs 
by its large stipules, copiously compound racemes, and densely 
white canescent calyx and corolla-tube. 
