Tas. 6323. 
BUDDLEIA ASIATICA. 
Native of the Hast Indies. 
Nat. Ord. Locantacez.—Tribe Eviocanré. 
Genus Buppiesa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 793.) 
Bupvie1a (Neemda) asiutica; arborea, albo- v. ferrugineo-tomentosa, foliis 
breviter petiolatis lanceolatis v. elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis v. 
'  serrulatis supra glabris, floribus parvis albis in racemos elongatos graciles 
axillares et terminales nutantes dispositis, solitariis v. fasciculatis odoris, 
bracteis bracteolisque subulatis pedicellis brevibus v. brevissimis, capsulis 
deflexis. 
_ Bz asiatica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 72; Benth, in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 446; 
Brand. For. Flor. p. 818; Beddome, Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. xxi. f. 4. 
B. Neemda, Hamilt. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. i. p. 396. Ed. Carey, vol. i. p. 411. 
DO. 1. ¢. 
B. discolor, Roth. Nov. Pl. Spec. p. 83; Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 42; Wight Ic. Ft 
Ind. Or. t. 894; Ill. t. 165, b. and v. 
B. salicina, Lamk. Illustr. i. p. 291. 
B. sundaica, acuminatissima et densiflora, Blum. Bijd. 743, ex Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. vol. ii. p, 363. 
B. subserrata, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 92. 
B. virgata, Blanco, Fl. Filip. p. 57? non L. fil. 
A very common and graceful large shrub or small tree of 
” a alay Peninsula, Cochin- 
Continental India, Burma, the M 
China and Java, advancing north-westwards to the Indus, 
ascending to 4000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to 6000 in the 
Nilgherri Hills, but curiously enough absent from Ceylon. 
Two forms of it are common, differing much in the flowers 
which are very variable in size and the length of the tube 
of the corolla; one form, that here figured, has a salver- 
shaped corolla, with orbicular spreading lobes; the other has 
much smaller flowers with short suberect corolla-lobes. 
The stamens in both are inserted near the mouth of the 
corolla-tube, not as stated by Roxburgh near its base. 
It is certainly remarkable that so very common, elegant 
and sweet-scented a plant as this, which flowers for three 
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