600 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Fl. Nep. 129 ; A. DC. /. c. 11 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I. 92 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 362. M. trinervis, Spanoghe in Linnsea XV. 335 

 (1841); A. DC. I.e. 560. M. malaccensis, Wight. Ic. 1601. Linnophila 

 campanuloides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3908. 



Malacca : Goodenough 669. — Distkib. Northern and Central 

 India, Burma, Malay Archipelago, China, Australia. 



3. BuDDLEiA, Linn. 

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

 by a stipular line. Cymes in dense globose or corymbiform cymes, 

 axillary or in a terminal thyrsoid panicle. Calyx campanulate, 4-merous. 

 Corolla urn-shaped ; lobes 4, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, adnate to 

 the corolla-tube ; anthers subsessile, ovate or oblong, with cordate or 

 2-lobed bases ; cells parallel. Ovary 2-celled ; style linear, clavate ; 

 ovules numerous in each cell ; stigma terminal or decurrent on two 

 sides. Fruit a septicidally 2-valved capsule ; the valves entire or bifid. 

 Seeds many, oblong or fusiform ; testa usually lax, or expanded into a 

 wing or tail ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight. — Disteib. About 

 100 species ; tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. 



Under surfaces of leaves, young branches, and inflorescence 



with minute yellowish pubescence . . . . . . 1. B. asiatica. 



Under surfaces of leaves, young branches, and inflorescence 



densely rusty-tomentose .. .. .. ..2. B.madagascariensis. 



1. BuDDLEiA ASIATICA, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 72 (1790). A shrub, 

 3 to 6 ft. high (sometimes as much as 15 ft.) ; young branches thicker 

 than a crowquill, covered, like the branches of the inflorescence, 

 with a subdeciduous, minute yellowish pubescence. Leaves opposite, 

 membranous ; oblong-lanceolate, the apex much acuminate, the base 

 usually much narrowed ; edges entire or with minute distant teeth ; 

 upper surface dark when dry, glabrous except the puberulous depressed 

 midrib ; lower surface pale yellowish-brown, minutely pubescent ; main 

 nerves 5 to 7 pairs, curving abruptly upwards and interarching rather 

 far from the edge, thin but prominent like the midrib on the lower 

 surface, obscure on the upper; length 2-5 to 6 in., breadth "6 to 1-5 in. ; 

 petiole -1 to -35 in. long, hifloresceiice terminal, consisting of numerous 

 3-flowered sessile cymules, arranged in spikes to form a few-branched 

 lax panicle, 5 to 9 in. long. Flowers "15 in. long, on very short 

 pedicels. Calyx half as long as the corolla, pubescent externally ; lobes 

 erect, acuminate. Corolla glaberulous, lobes blunt. Ovary narrowly 

 oblong, tapering to the apex ; stigma large, capitate, corrugated. 

 Capsule -2 in. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. X. 446 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6323 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 318; Kurz For. Fl. II. 250; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 



