* 
_ Stipules usually leafy, revolute-convex, rounded, largest 24 lin. long: 
_ numerous, few-flowered, capitate, in ovate-pyramidal panicles 6 
1046 LOGANIACE® (Prain and Cummins). — | Buddleiu. 
cells distinct, parallel. Ovary 2-celled, ovate, pubescent; style 
usually flexuous ; stigma (in the South African species) narrow- 
clavate laterally decurrent ; ovules many, several-seriate ; placentas 
thickened. Capsule ovoid or oblong or conical, exserted ; dehiscence 
septicidal ; vaives entire or splitting at apex, separating from and 
liberating the placentas. Seeds many, oblong, compressed fusiform 
or discoid ; testa lax and reticulate or close and sometimes winged ; 
albumen fleshy ; embryo straight. 
Stellately pubescent or tomentose shrubs or small trees ; leaves penninerved, 
petioled, opposite, decussate, subcoriaceous or herbaceous, entire or crenulate or 
toothed ; stipules leafy or represented by an interpetiolar ridge ; flowers cymose, 
often sweet-scented ; cymes usually dense, in corymbose thyrsoid or strict terminal 
panicles, 
Disrris. Species nearly 100, many in tropical and subtropical Asia and 
America ; a few in tropical and South Africa, two of the South African species 
being endemic. 
Stipules usually conspicuous, leafy, revolute-convex ; 
calyx-teeth subtriangular, acute, half as long as 
tube ; filaments longer than anthers : 
Leaves lanceolate, five times as long as broad, cordate 
or subhastate at base, finely crenulate, thinly 
pubescent and very finely rugose ‘above; twigs 
somewhat 4-angled ; corolla-throat hirsute with 
spreading hairs above the level of the stamens ... (1) salvifolia. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 
two to three times as long as broad, cuneate at 
base, serrate or entire, glabrous above; twigs 
cylindric ; corolla-throat not hirsute : 
Leaves thinly tomentose beneath, nerves and veins 
little impressed above ; flowers yellowish-white (2) auriculata. 
Leaves densely pubescent beneath, nerves and veins 
deeply impressed above; flowers orange or 
salmon, <a sii ike ec ... (2) auriculata, var. 
euryifolia. 
Stipules represented by an interpetiolar ridge; calyx- 
teeth ovate, subobtuse, one-fourth the length of the 
tube ; leaves smooth above, margin lobed or undulate 
or entire, neither serrate nor crenate ; twigs cylindric ; 
corolla-throat not hirsute ; filaments shorter than 
anthers ... ee Sg is sis a ... (3) pulchella. 
1. B. salvifolia (Lam. Encycl. i. 513); an erect shrub, 5-10 ft. 
high, with spreading branches; twigs faintly 4-angled, rusty- 
tomentose ; leaves firmly herbaceous, dark green, above thinly 
pubescent and finely rugose, beneath densely rusty- or at times 
hoary-tomentose, veins and nerves prominent, lanceolate, acuminate, 
base cordate or subhastate, margin very finely crenulate, 14-6 in. 
long, }-1} in. wide; petiole 14-3 lin. long, densely tomentose ;_ 
sometimes small, rarely reduced to an interpetiolar ridge ; cymes 
long, 3-4 in. across; cyme-peduncles stout, densely tomentose, 
