Strychnos] LXXV. LOGANIACE.E 475 



axillar\', nearly sessile, fl. fragrant, calyx very small, segments short, obtuse, corolla 

 campanulate i in. across, lobes acute, villous within. 10. S. laurina, Wall. Cachar. 

 Tenasserim. Malay Penins. and Archip. L. ovate, blade 4-6, pet. J in. long, tendrils 

 usually forked. Fl. in a large axillary (sometimes terminal) fulvous-pubescent thyrsus, 

 corolla campanulate, villous within, anther-cells slightly hairy, ovary hairy. 11. S. 

 axillaris, Colebr. Khasi hills. L. ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, blade 2-3, pet. }■ in., 

 tendrils simple. Fl. white, in small, axillary, almost sessile cymes, corolla hairy within, 

 anther-cells bearded at base. 12. S. malaceensis, Benth. Tenasserim (?). Malay Penins. 

 L. 5-nerved, anthers densely hairy, ovary glabrous. 



(c) Corolla-tube cylindrie, 5-10 times the length of calyx. 



13. S. cinnamomifolia, Thwaites: Wight Ic. t. 434. Travancore, low country. 

 Ceylon. A very large woody climber, 1. elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3—1, 

 pet. ^ in. Fl. white, in compact corymbiform cymes at the ends of short branchlets, 

 corolla i in. long, anthers and ovary glabrous, style long filiform, exserted, stigma 

 capitate. Fr. orange cold. 2-5 in. diam., seeds 7-14. 14. S. Wallichiana, Benth. Khasi 

 hills. Assam. Mikir hills. L. elliptic-oblong, suddenly caudate-acuminate, blade 

 1-ii. pet. J in. Corolla £-4 in. long, throat villous, anthers glabrous, style hairy, ovary 

 glabrous. 



2. BUDDLEIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 81. 



Shrubs, usually clothed with stellate or glandular hairs or scales, petioles 

 united by a stipulary line. Fl. 4-merous in 3-5-fld. cymes arranged in 

 panicled spikes and racemes, calyx persistent, corolla-lobes imbricate, stamens 

 4, anthers nearly sessile. Capsule opening septicidall}', leaving the dissepi- 

 ments free in the centre, valves 2 entire or bifid. Seeds small, numerous, 

 testa loose, often expanded into a wing all round. Species 70, South Africa, 

 tropical and subtropical countries of Asia and America. 



A. PI. small or middle-sized. 



1. B. asiatica, Lour.; Bedd. Man. t. 21.— Syn. 11. discolor, Roth; "Wight 

 Ic. t. 894; /-'. Xiimiiii. Roxb. Vera. Banna, Ph.: Dhaula, Kumaon; 

 Kyaung migu, Lower, Kyaukmiku, Upper Burma. 



A large shrub, branches, underside of leaves inflorescence and calyx clothed 

 with a dense grey felt of stellate hairs, 1. lanceolate, entire or minutely serru- 

 late, 3-6 in. long, usually glabrous above, narrowed iuto a short petiole. Fl. 

 white, scented, sessile or nearly so, in dense terminal and axillary panicled 

 spikes, bracts deciduous. Calyx 4-cleft to near the middle, lobes acute, corolla 

 tubular, hairy outside, tube \ in., twice the length of calyx, lobes round obtuse, 

 i ';■ | isule nodding, \ in., seeds with a finely reticulate wing all round. 



Outer Himalaya, ascending to 5,000 ft. Behar. Singbhum. CentralProv. Assam, 

 Khasi hills, Maui pur. Chittagong. Burma, in Savannas; in the hills chiefly "ii deserted 

 Toungyas. Western Peninsula. PI. Feb. to July. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 

 Anam. China. Not in < leylon. 



2. B. paniculata, Wall.; Colletl Simla F1.322fig. LOO.- Syn. B. crispa, 

 Benth. Vera. Chiti boi, Punj. ; Prind, Nun. ; Sendroi, Ghuttia, X. West. 



A shrub or small tree, stem gnarled and crooked, bark peeling off in long 

 shreds, branchlets, Leaves, inflorescence, bracts and calyx densely clothed with 



sc •!' t white OT tawny tomentuin. Leaves extremely variable, these at the ends 

 bf flowering branches i iblong-laiiceiila to. en tirt>. those In wor i lo wn has tat i", i Ice pi j - 

 sinuate-den tat e. blade '_' 6, petiole ] - 1 .', in. Long, on the iuterpetiolar lino some- 

 times a round or tobed Leafy stipule, petiole sometimes winged. Fl. nearly 

 sessile, fragrant, pale mauve, pink or white, in short dense spikes arranged 

 in large terminal leafy panicles, bracts lanceolate, tomentose, calyx and corolla 

 densely tomentose outside, calyx-lobes short, obtuse, lolla-tube .', in. long. 



Baluchistan. Common Trans Indus and in the N.-Wesl Himalaya, up to 7,500 ft. 

 Nepal. Rare in Sikkim and Bhutan. Manipurat5,000ft, Fl. Feb.-June, Afghanistan. 

 B. B. macrostachya, Benth. Sikkim. Bhutan, tfishmi. Khasi hills, Man i pur. Branches 

 stout, quadrangular, often narrowly winged, branchlets, leaves and inflorescence 

 rusty-wooUy, I. serrulate, 5 L0 in. long, narrowed into a verj short petiole. Fl. middle- 

 sized, white, tinged with pink and orange, in dense terminal and axillary elongate 



