Buddleia.~\ xcvi. LOGANIACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 81 



3. BUDDLEIA, 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or crenate, united by a 

 stipulary line. Cymes dense, globose or corymbiform, axillary or in a thyrsoid 

 terminal panicle. Calyx- campanulate, 4-merous. Corolla urn-shaped ; lobes 4, 

 imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, on the corolla-tube ; anthers subsessile, ovate 

 or oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, clavate ; ovule^ very many in each 

 cell. Capsule septicidally 2-valved. Seeds very many j< oblong or fusiform, 

 testa usually loose or expanded into a wing or tail, albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 -straight. Species 70, tropical and subtropical Asia, America, and Africa. 



1. B. Colvillei, Hook. f. III. Himal PL t. 18; sub-arboreous, leaves 

 oblong acuminate creuate-dentate, cymes lax in large terminal panicles, flowers 

 1 in. crimson. Gamble List Darjeeling PL 56. 



SIKKIM ; frequent on Tonglo, alt. 9-12,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A small tree 15-20 ft., or a large shrub. Leaves 6 by l in., attenuate at the base, 

 densely rusty-woolly when young, obscurely pubescent when mature ; petiole 0-j in. ; 

 stipules small. Panicles 4-8 in., rusty-villous ; pedicels 0-| in. Calyx 5- in., shortly 

 toothed, rusty-villous. Corolla tubular-campanulate, glabrous without ; lobes short, 

 round. Ovary hairy. Capsule f by ^ in. Seeds rhomboid-ellipsoid, testa lax little 

 longer than the seed. 



2. B. macrostachya, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 6407, and Scroph. Ind. 42, 

 and in DC. Prodr. x. 447 ; shrubby, leaves oblong acuminate crenulate-dentate 

 stipulate, spikes terminal elongate subpanicled, corolla narrow tubular fulvous- 

 woolly without, seeds tailed. B. Martii, T. A. Schmidt in Trimen Journ. Sot. 

 1868, 245. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6000-7000 ft., Cboongtam and Lachen, J. D. H. KHASIA 

 Mrs. alt. 3000-5000 ft. frequent. 



Shrub 3-8 ft. ; branches quadrangular upwards, woolly. Leaves 8 by 2 in., 

 attenuate at the base, rusty-woolly beneath or ultimately brown-pubescent , petiole 

 0-^ in., stipulary line much developed often eared in. broad. Spikes 4-10 in., 

 dense-fld., rusty-villous, usually continuous. Calyx in., campanulate ; teeth lanceo- 

 late, acute. Corolla, \ by in., white tinged with pink and yellow, throat orange. 

 Capsule jj-% in., oblong, acute, villous. Seeds elongate, testa lax 3-6 times as long as 

 the nucleus, tailed at both ends. The Sikkim plant does not essentially differ, but has 

 a grey pubescence, the calyx is smaller, and almost a silvery white. " Flower very 

 sweet, corolla-tube yellowish, limb patent blue, throat deep orange," J. H, B. Martii 

 is described as having glabrous branches, which is never the case in our specimens. 



VAR. Griffithii; corolla J by ^ in., capsule -*- in. Bhotan ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 n. 3743). Mishmee; Griffith (Kew Distrib. nn. 3746,3747). "Flowers lead-blue, 

 throat orange," Griffith. 



3. B. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 6403, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ 

 Wall. i. 412 ; shrubby, leaves ovate or oblong sinuate-dentate crenate or sub- 

 entire, flower-heads in interrupted panicles, corolla narrow-tubular woolly, 

 seeds ellipsoid not tailed. Don Prodr. 92 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 43, and in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 444; Brand. For. Fl. 318 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 251. B. crispa, Benth. 

 in Wall. Cat. 6404, and Scroph. Ind. 43 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4793 ; T. A. Schmidt in 

 Trimen Journ. Bot. 1868, 245; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 1198. B. nepalensis, 

 Colla ; Benth in DC. I. c. 447 ? 



HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., common westwards, becoming rare in Sikkim and 

 Bhotan. DISTRIB. Ava, Cabul Beloochistan. [The locality Silhet given by Mr. 

 Bentham is believed to be erroneous.] 



A shrub or small tree. ' Leaves 5 by 2 in., hastate, sinuate -dentate (on the flowering 

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