82 XCYi. LOGANiACE-a!. (0. B. Clarke.) 



branches usually much Bmaller, lanceolate, narrowed at the base, crenate or subentire), 

 woolly beneath ; petiole O-J in. ; stipules usually very narrow or obsolete. Flower- 

 heads woolly. Calyx ^-^ in., urn-shaped, woolly, teeth short. Corolla-tvhe pink, 

 lobes short lavender-blue, throat orange. Style short or long. Capsule ^ in., ellipsoid, 

 woolly. Seeds ellipsoid, testa lax scarcely longer than the nucleus. — B. pamictdata 

 was founded on the ends of the flowering branches with panieled heads and sub- 

 entire oblong leaves ; B. crispa on lower portions of the same branches with large 

 hastate deeply sinuate-dentate leayes and flower-heads subsolitary on short axillary 

 branches. 



4. B. asiatica, Low. Fl. Cochineh. 72; shrubby, leaves lanceolate 

 acuminate entire crenate or toothed, spikes terminal and axillary often panieled, 

 corolla \-^ in. tubular white, seeds not tailed. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 446; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6323; Dak. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 180; Bedd. For. Man. 163, and 

 Anal. Qm. t. 21 ; Brand. For. Fl. 318 ; Kwz For. Fl. ii. 250. B. Neemda, 

 Ham. in WaU. Cat. 6401 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 8f Wall. i. 411 ; Reich le. 

 Bot. Exot. t. 21 ; Bennth. Scroph. Ind. 43, and in DC. I. c. B. discolor, Roth 

 Nov. ^. 83 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 42 ; Wight lU. 1. 165, b. v. and Id. 894. B. 

 salicina, Lamk. lU. i. 291. B. acuminatissima, Blume Bijd. 743. B. serrulata, 

 Roth I. c. 82. B. subserrata, Don Prodr. 92. B. virgata, Blanco Fl. Filip. 57. 



Throughout India, ascending to 6800 ft., very common ; not known from Ceylon. 

 — ^DisTEiB. Malaya, Coehin-China, and China. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft., rarely subarborescent 15 ft. Leaves 5 by IJ in., usually nar- 

 rowed at the base, grey white or fulvous-tomentose or pubescent beneath ; petiole 

 0-J in. ; stipules narrow. Spikes 2-8 in., dense, usually continuous, fulvous or grey 

 tomentose or pubescent. Calyx ^^ in., campanulate, lobes triangular-oblong. 

 Corolla-tube hairy without or glabrescent, lobes short. Capsule f in., ellipsoid. Seeds 

 ellipsoid, testa lax little longer than the nucleus. 



4. TAGItmA, Thunb. 



Trees or shrubs, often epiphytic, sometimes scandent. Leaves opposite, 

 entire (crenulate in F. crenulata) ; petioles dilated at base or united by a stipulary 

 sheath. Cymes coUeoted in corymbs racemes or elongate panicles, terminal or 

 axillary ; bracts small. Flowers large or small, white, yellovrish or rarely pink. 

 Calyx deeply 5-fid ; lobes thick, broad, much imbricate. Corolla-tube long, 

 narrow or funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, broad, twisted to the left in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, filaments filiform; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled, or 1-celled 

 above ; style filiform, stigma capitate ; ovules very many in each cell. Berry 

 1-2-oelled. Seeds very many, immersed in pulp, testa crustaoeous, albumen 

 horny; embryo small, sti-aight.— Species 30 ; India, China, Japan, Malaya, and 

 Australia, Pacific Islds. 



* Cymes few-fld. (except F. crenulata), corymbose near the ends of the 

 branches, flowers large. 



t CoroUa-tube moi-e than 3 in., linear, dilated only near the top. 



■\ f- favosa' Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. n. 7, 81; leaves obovate obtuse 

 petioled, flowers solitary subsessile terminal, corollartube 5i in. DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 30 ; Benth. in Journ. lAnn. Soe. is. 97 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii, 204.' 



TENASSEEtM ; Lobb, Kurz. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



An epiphytic shrub. Leaves 3 by 2 in., truncate-obtuse, mucronate, base cuneate ; 

 petiole i-i m. Calyx f m. ; lobes | in., ovate, much imbricated. Corolla'tube i in., 

 mouth wide; lobes Ij m., obovate, obtuse, mucronate. Berry " size of a hen's ens, 

 ovate, rather pointed " {Kiire). 



