Nuwia. | LXXXVI. LOGANIACEE (BAKER). 515 
Catomba, Welwitsch, 5660, 4624! Pungo Andongo; by the River Tangne, 
Welwitsch, 5678! 
12. N. Holstii, Gilg in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 312. A tree; 
branchlets slender, glabrous, acutely angled. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, }-1 in. broad, acute, entire, thin, glabrous on 
both surfaces; main veins 10—12-jugate. Cymes lax, forming a broad 
panicle; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx funnel-shaped, glabrous, 
din. long; teeth minute, ovate. Corolla-lobes ;4, in. long.—W. flori- 
bunda, var. Holstii, Gilg in Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 54. V. usam- 
barensis and NV. Volkensii, Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 312. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, 4500— 
5000 ft., Holst, 9070! 9138! Kilimanjaro; Kilema, 4500 ft., Volkens, 1686! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., 
Whyte, 372! 
Very near the South African N. floribunda, Benth. 
4, BUDDLEIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 793. 
Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed. Corolla-tube cylindrical or campanu- 
late; lobes 4, short, broad, imbricate, spreading when expanded. 
Stamens 4, inserted at or near the throat of the corolla-tube ; anthers 
nearly sessile, ovate or oblong; cells parallel. Ovary 2-celled; style 
filiform, clavate or capitate at the stigmatose tip; ovules many in a 
cell, multiseriate. Capsule septicidally 2-valved ; valves bifid or entire. 
Seeds numerous, minute; testa adpressed or laxly reticulate, often 
expanded into a wing; albumen fleshy; embryo straight.—Trees or 
shrubs, usually tomentose. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed ; stipules 
reduced to a mere line. Cymes usually forming a terminal panicle. 
Species about 70; also in South Africa and the Mascarene Is!es, numerous in 
Tropical Asia and America. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, not rugose. 
Panicle long and lax 
Panicle very short and dense. 
= 
. B. polystachya. 
Calyx-teeth orbicular 2. B. usambarensis. 
Calyx-teeth ovate 3. B. oreophila 
Leaves subsessile, rugose 4. B. salvifolia. 
Leaves shortly petioled, rugose 5. B. aurantiaco- 
maculata, 
1. B. polystachya, /resen. ; Benth.in DC. Prod. x. 446. A shrub, 
8-10 ft. high; branchlets thinly clothed with pale brown tomentum. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, entire or obscurely 
serrate, 2-3 in. long, dull green and thinly tomentose above, densely 
clothed with bright brown tomentum beneath ; main veins raised ; petiole 
3} in. long. Cymes many, arranged in a long subspicate panicle with 
spaces between them, the lowest subtended by small leaves; pedicels 0 or 
very short ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx 4 in. long, clothed with brown 
tomentum ; tube oblong. Corolla-tube cylindrical, twice as long as the 
