396 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bllddleitt. 



lanceolate to oval, two inches long, tapering at both ends, 

 but more so at the base, and only there entire : the rest of the 

 margin serrulate ; without any hair or down, but scabrous 

 below, from a great number of minute brown shining glan- 

 dular dots which impart on being rubbed, a faintly aromatic 

 smell ; nerves and ribs elevated and slightly scaly. Petioles 

 very .short. Corymbs axillary or rather supra-axillary, small, 

 round, two or three times dichotomous, many times shorter 

 than the leaves ; peduncles short, divaricate, beset with mealy 

 pubescence, with minute lanceolate scales under each sub- 

 division. Flowers fragrant, purple, marked with glandular 

 dots. Calyx turbinate with very small obtuse teeth. Corol 

 about three times longer than the calyx, infundibuliform ; 

 lacinice oval, obtuse. Filaments almost twice as lono- as the 

 corolla, purple ; anthers large, orange-coloured, covered with 

 many glandular dots. Stigma sub-capitate, elevated about 

 the anthers. Berry very small, purple, at last red, with one 

 or two fertile seeds. 



BUDDLEIA. Sckreb. gen. N. 184. 



Calyx four-cleft. Corol four-cleft. Capsule superior, bisul- 

 cate, bilocular. Seeds numerous. 



1. B. JVeemda, Buchanan. 



Arborescent. Leaves lanceolate, sub-serrate, hoary under- 

 neath. Spikes terminal, lengthening, with flowers three-fold. 



Nimda the vernacular name at Chittagong, where the plant 

 is indigenous, and from 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 opposite, short- petioled, lanceolate, slightly 

 hairy ; from four to eight inches long. Petioles short, their 



