[MITEEOLA. 



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

 ii, 1S1 ; Prain]Beng. PL\702. 



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

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

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

 axillary dichotomous cymes, unilateral along the branches, very shortly 

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

 in. long, divided more than i way down ; lobes subacuts, denticulate. 

 Corolla, T V in long ; lobes half as long as the tube, acute, pilose towards 

 the base inside. Capsule wedga-shaped, 2-horaad, about ^ in, long. 

 Seeds elongate, trigonous, shining. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble). Flowers Sep-Dec. DISTRFB. : Kumaonup to 4,000 

 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, Ohina, Malaya and N. Australia. 



2. BT7DDLEIA, Linn, j Fl. Brit. lad. iv, 81. 



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

 by a raised stipulary line. Cymes dense, globose or corymbiform, 

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

 nulate, 4-lobed. Corolla-tube oylindrio or urn-shap9d ; lobos 4, 

 short, spreading, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, on the corolla-tube ; 

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

 Ovary 2-oelled; style linear, stigma olavate or capitate ; ovules 

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

 oblong or fusiform, testa appressed or loosely reticulate, often 

 expanded into a wing or tail, albumen fleshy, embryo straight. 

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

 tropical America. 



B, aslatica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 72 ; RoyU TIL 291 ; F B. I. iv 82 

 Watt Jf. D. ; BrantisFor. Fl. 31?; Ind. Trees 475 ; Collett Fl. Si ml. 322; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl.247; G-amble Man. Ind. Timb. 495; Prain Beng. PI 

 703. B. Neemda, Buch.-Ham. ; Uoxb. Fl Ind.i, 398; Eoyle III. 291. B.' 

 subserrata, Don' Prod. 92. Vern. Neemda, dudhia (Dehra Dun). 



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

 branches softly tomentose. Ltaves 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 



