Xuxia.] Lxxxvi. LOGANiACE^ (baker). 515 



Cjifombii, Wehvitsch, 5660, 4624 ! Pungo Andongo ; l)y the Kivor Taiigiie, 

 Welwitsch, 5678 ! 



12. N. Holstii, Gilg in Enyl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 312. A tree; 

 branchlets slender, glabrous, acutely angled. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, |-1 in. broad, acute, entire, thin, glabrous on 

 both surfaces; main veins 10-12-jugate. Cymes lax, forming a broiul 

 panicle ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx funnel-shaped, glabrous, 

 ^ in. long ; teeth minute, ovate. CorolU« -lobes yV in. long. — X. flori- 

 bunda, var. Holstii, Cilg in Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 54. X. iisatn- 

 harensis and ^V. Volkensii,G\\^ in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 312. 



XMEozamb. Blst. Gorman East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Msliu/a. 4500- 

 500U ft., Hoist, 9070! 9138! Kilimanjaro; Kilema, 4500 ft., I'nlkens, 1686! 

 lintisli Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Kiironga, 2000-6000 ft., 

 Whiite. 372 ! 



Very near the South African N.Jlorihunda, Bcnth, 



4. BUDDLEIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 7113. 



Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed. Corolla-tube cylindrical or cauipanu- 

 late ; lobes 4, short, broad, imbricate, spreading when expanded. 

 Stamens 4, inserted at or near the throat of the corolla-tube ; anthers 

 nearly sessile, ovate or oblong ; cells parallel. Ovary 2-celled ; style 

 filiform, clavate or capitate at the stigmatose tip ; ovules many in a 

 cell, multiseriate. Capsule septicidally 2-valved ; valves bitid or entire. 

 Seeds numerous, minute ; testa ad pressed or laxly reticulate, often 

 expanded into a wing; albumen fleshy; embryo straight. — Trees or 

 shrubs, usually tomentose. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed ; stipules 

 reduced to a mere line. Cymes usually forming a terminal panicle. 



Species about 70 ; also in South Africa and tlie Mascarcne Is'es numerous in 

 Tropical Asia and America. 



Leaves distinctly petioled, not rugose. 



Panicle loig iind lax 1. B. polystnchiia. 



Panicle very short and dense. 



Calyx-teeth orbicular 2. B. timmhnreusis. 



C-dyx-teetli ovate 3. -B. oreophUn 



Leaves siibsessile, rugose 4>. B. salvifoUa. 



Leaves shortly petioled, rugose . . . . 5. jB. aurantinro- 



7/1(1 C If 



lata. 



1. B. polystachya, Fresen. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 44i;. A shrub. 

 ^^-10 ft. high; branchlets thinly clothed with pale brown tomentuni. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, entire or oh.»curely 

 serrate, 2-3 in. long, dull green and thinly tomentose above, den.seiy 

 clothed with bright brown tomentum be»ieath ; main veins raised ; petiole 

 \-h in. long. Cymes many, arranged in a long subspicate panicle with 

 spaces between tJiem, the lowest subtended by small leaves; pedict'lsO or 

 very short ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx J in. long, clothed with brown 

 tomentum ; tube oblong. Corolla-tube cylindrical, twice as long as the 



