Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 601 



II. 363 ; CUarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 82. B. Neemda, Ham. 

 in Wall. Cat. 6401; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. I. 411; 

 Eeichenb. Ic. Bot. Exot. 21. B. discolor, Eoth Nov. Spec. 83 ; Wight 



III. 165b, and Ic. 894. B. salicina, Lamk. 111. I. 291. B. acumina- 

 tissima, Blume Bijdr. 743. B. siibserrata, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 92. 

 B. virgata, Blanco Fl. Filip. 57. B. serratula, Both I. c. 82. 



In all the Provinces ; common. 



2. BuDDLEiA MADAGAscAEiENSis, Lamk. Encyc. I. 513 (1783). A 

 slender creeper, 60 to 80 ft. long ; young branches half as thick as a crow- 

 quill, covered, like the under surfaces of the leaves the inflorescence and 

 the outer surface of the calyx, with dense pale brown tomentum. Leaves 

 coriaceous ; elliptic-lanceolate, the apex shortly acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; upper surface very dark when dry, glabrous, reticulate ; main 

 nerves about 8 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent on the lower 

 surface and depressed on the upper ; length 2 to 3*5 in. ; breadth -6 to 



1 in. ; petiole '3 to "5 in. Inflorescence a terminal, often leafy, thyrsoid 

 panicle, 8 to 12 in. long, with numerous diverging branches from 1 to 



2 in. long (shorter near the apex), bearing pedunculate few-flowered 

 umbellate cymules ; bracteoles at base of branches linear, about '5 in. 

 long. Floivers orange, "4 in. long, sessile, on very short pedicels. Calyx 

 obovoid-ellipsoid ; teeth short, blunt ; tube glabrous within. Corolla 

 salver-shaped; lobes of the limb blunt, short, reflexed, giabrescent; tube 

 cylindric, -35 in. long, cottony without, sparsely hairy inside like the 

 narrowly oblong ovary. Anthers sessile near the mouth of the corolla-tube. 

 Capsule globular, -35 in. in diam. ; pericarp thick, scaly, dark-coloured. 

 Lamk. Ill I. t. 69, fig. 3; Benth. in DC. Prodr. X. 447; Bot. Mag. 2824. 



Penang : Hullett 121 ; Murton 4 ; Bidley 7049 ; Kincfs Collector 

 1340. Peeak : King's Collector 5201 ; Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 

 1033/2 ; Wallich 6402. A native of Madagascar, but in some spots 

 within our area almost naturalised. 



4. NoREisiA, Gardn. 



A shrulD ; the young parts pubescent. Leaves opposite ; petioles 

 dilated at the base and subconnate. Flowers smaU, yellow. Calyx 

 small, 5-lobed. Corolla with narrow cylindric tube ; the limb with 

 5 small, ovate, valvate lobes. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-throat; 

 filaments slender ; anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stigma capitate ; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule oblong, septi- 

 cidally 2-valved, carpophore finally free. Seeds numerous ; testa lax, 

 4 to 6 times as long as the linear caudate nucleus ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo straight or curved. — Disteib. Two species : both Malayan. 



