Tab. 6323. 
BUDDLEIA asiatica. 
Native of the East Indies. 
Nat. Ord. Loganiaoeas. — Tribe Eulogani^. 
Genus Buddleia, Linn. ( Benth . et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 793.) 
Buddleta (Neemda) asiatica; arborea, albo- v. ferrugineo-tomentosa, foliis 
breviter petiolatis lanceolatis v. elongato-lanceola.tis acuminatis integernmis v. 
serrulatis supra glabris, floribus parvis albis in racemos elongatos graciies 
axillares et terminales nutantes dispositis, solitariis v. fasciculatis odons, 
bracteis bracteolisque subulatis pedicellis brevibus v. brevissimis, capsuiis 
deflexis. 
B asiatica, Lour. FI. Cochinch, p. 72; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 446 ; 
Brand. For. Flor . p. 318 ; Beddome, Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. xxi. t. 4. 
B. Neemda, Hamilt. in Roxh. FI. lnd. vol. i. p. 396. Ed. Carey , vol. i. p. 411. 
DC. 1. c. 
B. discolor, Roth. Nov. PI. Spec. p. 83 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 42 ; Wight Ic. PI. 
Ind. Or. t. 894; III. t. 165, b. and v. 
B. salicina, Lamk. Illustr. i. p. 291. 
B. sundaica, acuminatissima et densiflora, Blum. Bijd. 743, ex Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat . vol. ii. p. 363. 
B. subserrata, Don. Prodr. FI. Nep. p. 92. 
B. virgata, Blanco , FI. Filip, p. 57 ? non L. fil. 
A very common and graceful large shrub or small tree of 
Continental India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Cochin- 
China and Java, advancing north-westwards to the Indus, 
ascending to 4000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to 60 in 10 
Nilgherri Hills, but curiously enough absent from Ceylon. 
Two forms of it are common, differing much in the flowers 
which are very variable in size and the length ot the tube 
of the corolla ; one form, that here figured, has a salver- 
shaped corolla, with orbicular spreading lobes ; the other Has 
much smaller flowers with short suberect <; ovo a o es. 
The stamens in both are inserted near the mouth ot the 
corolla-tube, not as stated by Roxburgh near its base. 
It is certainly remarkable that so very common elegant 
and sweet-scented a plant as this, which flowers for three 
OCTOBER 1st, 1877. 
