Buddlela: 9"eTrandria MONOGYNiAi 411 



colour, especially within, while those of Thunberg's plant are white. 



--N. W. 



BUDDl.EIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 184. 



Ca/y.r four- cleft. Co/o/ four-cleft. Capsule superior, bisulcate, 

 bilocuiur. Seeds aumerous. 



1. B. Neemda, Buchanan. 



Arborescent. J.euves lauceolatc, sub-serrate, hoary underneath. 

 Spikes ternuiial, leugtheniug, wiih Jiuzcvrs ihree-toid. 



N^inda ihe vernacular uauie at Clnllagong, where the plant is 

 indigenous, and from thence introduced into liie Botanic Garden by 

 Dr. Buchanan, where it beg:ns to blossom ahuut tiie ciese ot the 

 cold season. Seeds ripen m March and May.* 



Trunk erect; branches liuuierous, opposite. Sark of the longer 

 wool'y parts ash-coloured, young shoots covered with vvli,te down. 

 Height of the tree, in tviO jears, about fifteen feet. — Leaves opi)o- 

 site, short-pttioled, lanceolate, slightly hairy; from four to ei£;ht 

 inches long. — Fetioles short, their bases joined by a connectnig 

 rneaibrane. — Spihcs terminal, generaHy three-fold, there being a 

 larger, and longer in the cenlre, with a smaller on each side ; long, 

 slender, hahy, lengthening, and blossoming for three months. — 

 Flozceis generally three-fold, sub-opposite, sessile, very uumercus, 

 small, pure white, and of a pleasant smell. — Bracles lanceolate, 

 one under each ilower. — Calyx inferior, four, rarely five-toothed, 

 villous.— Co?o/ one-petalled, hypocrateriform. Tube the length of 

 the cal}x ; mouih villous, border of four, rarely five, rounded, equal 

 seiiuieuts. — Filamoil!) sliort, inserted near the base of the tube ot 

 the corol. Anthers broad, sagittate, hid in the tube.— Gerw coni- 

 cal. Stj/Ie short. Stigma large, oblong, bisulcate, even wiiii tha 

 tops of the anthers. — Capsule ovate-oblong, tw o-ce!led, twO'Virlvei].. 

 Seeds minute, numerous, imbricated, compressed. 



* I have received specimens of this charuilng j>!ant collected by my fiiend Dc. 

 Govaa at Saharuiipore.—N. W. 



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