414 xcm. LOGANIACE.E. [. Mitrasacme. 
A very small plant resembling an Oldenlandia. Our form about 
3 in. tall. Distrib. India, China, Malaya, Australia. 
3. BUDDLEIA, Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite. Cymes in a terminal 
thyrsoid panicle (or globose or corymbiform cymes). Calyx cam- 
panulate, 4-lobed. Corolla tubular, lobes 4 imbricate. Stamens 
4, adnate to tube. Ovary 2-celled; style linear clavate. Fruit 
a 2-valved capsule. Seeds many, oblong or fusiform. Species 
about 100, Old World tropics. B. madagascariensis Lam. a 
shrub, sarmentose with orange flowers in dense spikes, was 
formerly planted largely on the top of Penang Hill. Native of 
Madagascar. 
(1) B. asiatica Loureiro FI. Cochinchine, 72; King, l.c. 600. 
Shrublet 1 to 6 ft. or more tall, white-pubescent on stem and 
underside of leaves. Leaves membranous lanceolate, long acumin¬ 
ate, base narrowed, glabrous except midrib above, minutely pubes¬ 
cent beneath, 2-5 to 6 in. long, *6 to 1-5 in. wide; petioles *1 to 
•35 in. long. Inflorescence terminal of numerous 3-flowered cymules 
arranged in a panicle of 4 or 5 spikes, 5 to 9 in. long. Flowers 
•15 in. long, white. Calyx pubescent, half as long as corolla-lobes, 
acuminate. Corolla glabrous. Capsule -2 in. long. Hab. Not 
common, in rice fields. Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Temengoh. 
Penang (Wallich), Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 
In other countries this forms a bush up to 15 ft. tall. 
4 . NORRIS LA, Gardn. 
Trees. Leaves opposite; petioles dilate at base and sub- 
connate. Flowers small, white in dense terminal corymbs. Calyx 
small, 5-lobed. Corolla-tube narrow, lobes 5, oblong valvate. 
Stamens 5 on corolla throat; filaments slender, exsert; anthers 
ovate. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma capitate. Capsule 
oblong septiddally 2-valved, carpophore free. Seeds numerous 
with an elongate wing at each end. Species 1. 
(1) N. malaccensis Gardn. Hook. Kew. Journ. i. 327; King, 
l.c. 602. 
Tree about 60 to 80 ft. tall. Leaves thin coriaceous, ovate or 
elliptic, acute, base acute, glabrous above, midrib and nerves 
4 to 6 pairs, puberulous beneath or all pubescent, 1-5 to 2-5 in. 
long, -85 to 1*25 in. wide; petioles -25 in. long. Corymbs 1 to 
1-5 in. across; peduncles and branches densely tomentose, 1 in. 
long. Flowers sub-sessile. Calyx cupular. Corolla *25 in. long, 
tomentose. Capsule *25 in. long. Hab. Forests. 
var. (a) malaccensis. Flowers smaller and fruit smaller. 
var. (b) major, N. major Solereder, Pflanzenfamilien iv. 2, p. 37; 
King, l.c. 602. The commonest form. Flowers and fruits rather 
