68 L0GAN1ACEM. [Miteeola. 



M. oldenlandioides, Wall. Cat. 4350 ; F.B. I.iv,79 ; CooU Fl. Bomb, 

 ii, 181 ; Prain]Beng. Pl.\702. 



An annual, 6-8 in. high. Leaves mambranous, glabrous or nearly so, 

 1-3 in. long, ovata or ovate-oblong, narrowed at both ends, petiole \ in. 

 long, stipules connate in a transverse ridge. Flowers in terminal and 

 axillary diohotomous cymes, unilateral along the branches, very shortly 

 pedicelled ; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx T \ 

 in. long, divided more than \ way down; lobas subacute, denticulate. 

 Corolla T V in long ; lobas half as long as the tuba, acute, pilose towards 

 the base inside. Capsule wedga-shapad, 2-hornad, about £ in. long. 

 Seeds elongate, trigonous, shining. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble). Flowers Sep -Dec. Distbib. : Kumaonup to 4,005 

 ft. and eastwards to the Sikkim Terai and on Khasia and Naga Hills, 

 also in Chota Nagpur and southwards from Bombay and the Gent. Prov. 

 to S. India ; expending to Burma, China, Malaya and 1ST. Australia. 



2. BUDDZ/EIA, Linn, j PI. Brit. lad. iv, 81. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed, united 



by a raised stipulavy Hue. Cymes dense, globose or corynabiform, 



axillary or arranged in a thyrsoid terminal panicle. Calyx campa- 



nnlate, 4-lobed. Corolla-tube cylindrio or urn-shaped ; lobes 4, 



short, spreading, imbrioate in bud. Stamens 4, on the oorolla-tube ; 



anthers subsessile, ovate or oblong, oordate or 2-lobed at the base. 



Ovary 2-celled; style linear, stigma clavate or oapitate ; ovules 



many in each cell. Capsule septicidally 2-valved. Seeds many, 



oblong or fusiform, t©3ta appressed or loosely reticulate, often 



expanded into a wing or tail, albuman fleshy, embryo straight. — 



Species about 70, in tropical and subtropical. Asia and Africa, also in 



tropical America. 



B. asiatica, Lour. Fl. Cochina\. 72; Royle III. 291', P B. I. iv, 82 ; 

 Watt B D. ; BranlisFor. Fl. 318; Lid. Trees 475 ; Collett FL. Siml. 322; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl.247 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 495; Prain Beng. PI. 

 703. B. Neernda, Buch.-Ham. ; Roxb. Fl Ind.i, 396; Royle III. 29 1. B. 

 aubserrata, Don- Prod. 93.— Vern. Neemda, dudhia (Dehra Dun). 



A large evergreen shrub with thin grey bark, extremities and young 

 branches softly tomentose. Leaves 2£-6 in. long, lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate and usually acute at the base, crenate or serrulate or the 

 upper ones usually entire, glabrous above, clothed beneath with white 

 or yellowish tomentum, petioles 0-£ in. long. Flowers white, scented, 

 subsessile, in dense slender bracteate tomentose terminal or axillary 



