- Buddleia: EETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA: 411 
colour, especially within, while those of Thunberg’s plant are white. 
N. W. : 
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^ BUDDLEIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 184. 
Calyx four-cleft. Corol four-cleft. Capsule superior, bisulcate, 
bilocuiar. Seeds numerous.. 
1. B. Neemda, Buchanan. : 
— Arborescent. Leaves lanceolate, sub-serrate, hoary underneath. 
Spikes terminal, lengthening, with flowers. three-fold. ; 
- Nimda the vernacular name at Chittagong, where the plant is 
indigenous, and trom thence introduced into the Botanic Garden by 
Dr. Buchanan, where it begins to blossom about the close of the 
cold season. Seeds ripen in March and May.* 
Trunk erect; branches numerous, opposite. Bark of the longer 
woolly parts ash-coloured, young shoots covered. with white down. 
Height of the tree, in two years, about fifteen feet.— Leaves oppo- 
site, short-petioled, lanceolate, slightly hairy; from four to eight 
inches long.— Petioles short, their bases joined by a connecting 
membrane.—Spikes terminal, generally three-fold, there being a 
larger, and longer in the centre, with a smaller on each side; long, 
slender, hairy, lengthening, and blossoming for three months.— 
Flowers generally three-fold, sub-opposite, sessile, very numerous, 
smali, pure white, and of a pleasant smell.— Bractes lanceolate, 
one under each flower.— Ca/yz inferior, four, rarely five-toothed, 
villous.— Coro! one-petalled, hypocrateriform. Tube the length of 
the calyx ; mouth villous, border of four, rarely five, rounded, equal 
segments.— Filaments short, inserted near the base of the tube of 
the corol. Anthers broad, sagittate, hid in the tube.—Germ coni- 
cal. Style short. — Stigma large, oblong, bisulcate, even with the 
tops of the anthers.— Capsule ovate-oblong, two-celled, two-valved. 
Seeds minute, numerous, imbricated, compressed. | 
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* I have received specimens of this charming plant collected by my friend Da. 
Sovan at Sabaruppore.—N, W. 
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