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tomentose beneath, 6-18cm. long, 2J-6Jcm. broad ; midrib 

 veins and main veinlets prominent beneath ; veins erect-patent, 

 5-9 on each side; petiole cano-tomentose, canaliculated in front, 

 8-28mm. long. Thyrse terminal but sometimes ternary, often 

 elongate, often arcuato-cernuous, densely and unilaterally flow- 

 ered, about 6 -25cm. long ; rachis slender, cano-tomentose as 

 are the peduncles and pedicels ; bracts small, linear, obtuse, 

 cano-tomentose, not exceeding the calyx in height but the lower 

 ones often slightly exceeding them, the basal ones usually foli- 

 aceous and petiolate ; cymes very shortly peduncled, triflorous, 

 bracteolate. Flowers very shortly pedicellate, about 17-18 

 mm. long, purple ; pedicel shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles 

 minute, linear, often slightly longer than the pedicels. Calyx 

 ellipsoid-campanulated, cano-tomentose, shortly 4-fid, about 

 3mm. long, persistent; teeth subulato-deltoid, obtuse or acutish 

 at the apex, erect, sinuses rounded at the bottom. Corolla 

 farinoso-viscidulous and tomentoso-puberulent externally, mar- 

 cescent ; tube elongate, cylindrical, somewhat enlarged above, 

 subventricous and curved above, pilose above as is the throat 

 and thinly pubescent below internally ; limb 4-parted, patent, 

 7mm. across; lobes rounded, 3mm. long. Stamens 4, inserted 

 above the middle of the corolla-tube ; filament very short ; 

 anther dorsifixed, oblong-linear, l|mm. long. Ovary ovojd,. 

 glabrous, about 2mm. long ; style erect, terminal, glabrous, 

 angustately cylindrical, 5mm. long including the stigma ; 

 stigma erect, subulate, nearly 3mm. long, Capsule exserted, 

 ellipsoid-fusiform, tapering towards the style, smooth, 2-sulcate, 

 about 6mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Urajiro-fadziutsugi (no v.), Utsugi (vernacular). 



Hah. Prov. Osumi : Miyanoura in Isl. Yaku-shima (T. Maki- 

 nol Sept. 1909), Isl. Naka-no-shima (S. Tashirol). 



This species comes very closely to Buddhia curvifiora Hook, 

 et Arn., though its leaves are larger and discolourous. The 

 native men of the Island of Yaku-shima, use this plant to 

 poison fishes. 



Buddleia curvifiora Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. Yov. 



