330 LOGANIACE^.. [Gelsemium.. 



IFriff/tl. ]More abundant on the hills of the opposite China coast, Champion. Also in 

 Sumatra, if I do not err in identifying Blame's Leptopteris with this species. 



2. MITRASACME, Labill. 



Calyx 4-lobed or rarely 2-lobecl. Corolla usually campanulate, 4-lobed, 

 valvate in the bud. Stamens 4. Ovaiy 2-celled, with several ovules in each 

 cell. Style simple, but splitting at the base as the flowering advances. 

 Stigma entire or slightly 2-lobed. Capsule compressed, 2-lobed at the top, 

 surmounted usually by the split style, and opening along the inner edge of 

 the lobes. Seeds ovoid or globular. — Herbs, mostly annual. Leaves oppo- 

 site, without stipules. Flowers small. 



The genus comprises a considerable number of Australian species, with three from tropical 

 Asia. 



Leaves collected in distinct pairs along the lower part of the stem . . \. M. capillaris. 

 Leaves all rosulate at the base of the stem 2. If. nudicaulis. 



1. M. capillaris, Wall.; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 92. A slender 

 erect annual, 3 to 6 in. high or rarely drawn up to near a foot, more or less 

 hairy at the base. Leaves collected in the lower part of the stem, but in 

 distinct pairs, oblong or lanceolate, 3 to 6 lines long, more or less hairy, the 

 upper ones at the branching of the inflorescence very few, small and bract- 

 like. Flowers few, in an irregular terminal umbel. Calyx-lobes acute, from 

 half as long to nearly as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla usually about 2 

 lines long, but varying in size, narrow-campanulate. Style entire at the time 

 of flowering, but splitting at the base as the ovary enlarges. — 31. malaccensis, 

 Wight, Ic. t. 1601. 



On roadsides and in stony places, Champion, Wilford. Dispersed over various parts of 

 India from the Peninsula to Nepal and to Malacca. 



2. M. midicaulis, Re'inw. ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 92. This 

 may be only a variety of M. capillaris, although usually considered as distinct. 

 It is more slender, seldom above 4 in. high. Leaves all collected at the base 

 of the stem and rosulate, from obovate to oblong, 3 or 4 lines long; the 

 bracts at the base of the peduncles very minute. Flowers seldom above 11 

 lines long. — M. chinensis, Griseb. in PL Meyen. 51. 



Hongkong, Wright. In S. China, Khasia, and Sikkim. • 



3. BUDDLEIA, Linn. 



Calyx 4-toothed or 4-lobed. Corolla with a short or long tube, and spread- 

 ing or rarely erect limb of 4 short broad lobes, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 

 4, the anthers almost sessile. Ovary 2-ceUed, with several ovules in each cell. 

 Style entire. Capsule opening septicidally in 2 entire or bifid valves, leaving 

 the placenta free in the centre. Seeds numerous, small, more or less flattened, 

 or obscurely winged. — Shrubs or rarely trees, with more or less of a mealy or 

 woolly tonientum, rarely quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 

 Flowers in cymes or clusters, either axillary or in terminal racemes or panicles ; 

 in some species occasionally, but rarely, pentamerous. 



A large genus, chiefly tropical and American, with a few Asiatic or African species. 



Corolla-tube curved, full ^ in. long \. B. Lindleyana. 



Corolla-tube straight, 1 to 2 lines long. . , %. B. asiatica. 



