91. LOGANIACE^. [1- Buddleia. 



minute. Follicles slender straight terete, smooth. Seeds flat winged 



comose. 



1 B. umbellata, W. 4' A. Syn. Caralluma umbellata. Haw. 



A cffispitose fleshy herb or ixndershrub 6-15" high, angles sinuate- 

 dentate, the teeth ending with a scar. Flowers 1-1-25 diam. closely 

 concentrically streaked with purple, glabrous, in dense umbels. 

 Follicles acuminate attaining 6" on a pedicel of -8". 

 On bare rocks, Khandabolo Mnt., elev. 3000 ft. Pari! FI r.s. Fr. Dec 

 St^ms quite uBbranched in our specimens whicli are Ao^^^i^^^j' ^if^/e ^Sv 

 entirely sessile umbel it differs from normal B. umhellata The pedicels are ^ery 

 shot being onlv -2" in fruit, but plants with similar short Pedicels have been 

 collected in the Northern Circars. In flower the allied species ^ cremclafa can be 

 distincruished by the long- hairs scattered over the whole inner surface. 



FAM. 91. LOGANIACE^. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs with opposite simple leaves often united by 

 a stipulary line or sometimes petioles dilated at base, more rarely 

 stipules present and distinct. Fls. regular large or usually small, 

 cymose, sometimes reduced to solitary flowers, cymes sometimes 

 capitate or panicled. Calyx inferior, small, 4-5-toothed or -lobed. 

 Corolla 4^5-lobed or -partite. Stamens 4-5, on the tube, alternate 

 with the lobes. Ovary free 2-celled with simple style and capitate 

 2-fid or 2-partite stigma. Ovules 1 or more in each cell, placentae 

 on the dissepiment or basal in the inner angle. Fruit a septicidal 

 capsule or baccate, 1-many-seeded. Albumen copious, embryo 

 straight. 



I. Trees or shrubs :— ^ ;iJi„i„ 



Corolla imbricate. Capsule 2-valved 1 • Buddleia. 



Corolla contorted. Fruit indehiscent, baccate . . • 2. b,trycH7io». 

 II. Herbs. Corolla valvate. Fruit a didymous capsule :— 



Fls. in 2-3-chotomous cymes, 5-merous 3. Mitreoia. 



Fls. solitary or clustered, 4-merous ....•• 4. Mitrasacme. 



1. BUDDLEIA, L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or crenate, often with forked or 

 gland-hairs, united by a stipulary line. Flowers 4-merous usually 

 rather small, variously coloured in axillary or terminal and panicled 

 sometimes very dense or globose cymes. Calyx campanulate. Corolla 

 campanulate, tubular, salver-shaped or sub-rotate, tube sometimes 

 curved, lobes imbricate. Stamens in the tube with short filaments. 

 Ovary 2-celled, style short with clavate or capitate stigma. Ovules 

 very many. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Seeds very many, oblong 

 or fusiform with usually loose testa expanded into a wmg or tail, 

 albumen fleshy. 



1. B. asiatica, Lour. Nimda, Beng. ; Jhangi, Th. (but this merely 

 means a shrub). 



A pretty shrub 3-7 ft. high, clothed on the branches and leaves 

 with a hoary or grey tomentum. Leaves lanceolate 3-6" long, 

 acuminate. Flowers small white •12--2" long in small cymose 

 clusters on the rhachis of spiciform panicles, these again often 



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