411 ♦eTRANDUIA MONOGTNIA." Buddleift. 



Obs. The whiteness of the leaves, and young shoots of this plant, 

 independently of its numerous, beautiful smail, fragrant, pure white 

 flowers, makes it highly ornamental, particularly amongst plants with 

 darker foliage. 



2. 13. faniculata, Wall. 



Leaves lanceolate, acuuiinate, entire, acute at the base, villous 

 above, densely hoary beneath; racemes short, hoary, sessile, crowded 

 into terminal panicles ; flowers fascicled- 



A native of the valley of Nepala, from wlience the Honorable E. 

 Gardner sent me specimens in 1818. Flowering time February to 

 April. 



A small ramous tree with round spreading branches, covered with 

 smooth fibrous sei^araling bark. — Branchlets slightly compressed, 

 and, as well as the leaves and iniiorescence, covered with dense white 

 stellate easily separating tomentum; especially while young. — Leaves 

 lanceolate, tapering into an acumen, quite entire, acute at the base, 

 from four to live inches long, rugose above, soft and hoary below, 

 with conspicuous sub-opposite nerves and reticidated veins.— Pcifz- 

 oles half an inch long, obscurely furrowed above, connected by an 

 elevated line running across the branch. — Racemes short and stout, 

 obtuse, the lowermost from the terminal axils about two or three 

 inches long, the others shorter and more sinjple, until they become a 

 terminal elongated raceme; the whole forming an elegant crowded at- 

 tenuated sessile panicle or ihyrsus. Common peduncle about six inches 

 long, and, as well as the outside of the flowers, hoary ; partial one 

 very short, and supported by opposite narrow linear acuminate^o;Y// 

 leaver or bractes. — Flozcers fragrant, white, numerous, sessile, crowd- 

 ed into approximate sub-sessile fascicles, each with a pair of subulate 

 elongated bractesy besides some smaller ones under the exterior ca- 

 lyces. — Calyx with ovate teeth. — Tube of the corolla cylindric, three 

 times longer than the calyx, slightly hairy within. Lacinia short, oval, 

 obtuse. — Anthers linear, sub-sessile below the mouth, enclosed.— 

 Ovarium and base of the short style villous. Stigma clavate. — N. W. 



