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BuDDLEA BRASILIENSIS. BRASILIAN 
‘ Buppiea. 
J bebisoboebieeisiinietetak 
| Class. body Oiler. 
Terdawhnta ’ Moxoeys1s 
( Nat. Ord.—Virices. ) 
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‘ j Generic Character. 
Cal, A-fidus._ Cor. 4-fida.* Cape. bilocularis, dissepimen- 
fum e marginibus valvarum. Semina paleacea. 
Bupprea brasiliensis ; foliis deltoideo-oblongis per petiolos 
_ ‘decurrentibus connatis irregulariter crenato-dentatis, 
\ floribus verticillatis bracteatis, ramis tetragonis lana- 
\ tis. Graham M38) 6 7 Wag or 
Buppiea brasiliensis. “ Jacq. fil.”— 
v1. p. 430. OSS 
eng. Syst. Veg. 
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— _Descr. Shrub erect. Stem nearly round ; bark brown 
and cracked. Branches opposite, decussating, four-sided, 
covered with a white wool, which, subsequently, peels off. 
aves opposite and decussating ; when young, oblong, 
afterwards becoming wider at the base and more pointed, 
_ 80 as to be nearly deltoid, unequally dentato-crenated, 
broadly decurrent along the petiole, where they are quite 
entire, connate, soft, tomentose, especially beneath, and 
' there white, green above, and reticulated. Flowers verti- 
‘Glllate, the lowest whorl on two short, axillary footstalks. 
; Vi erticillus many-flowered, leafy. Bractee small, pointed, 
Steen, placed on the outside of the whorls. Calyx persist- 
mg, green, covered with white down, four-cleft. Corolla 
“range-yellow, hairy within and without, least so on the 
“pper surface of the limb; tube moré than twice the oS 
