2. Buddleja lindleyana x Buddleja asiatica
PRISCILLA ABDULLA
Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College, Rawalpindi.
Erect shrub. Branchlets bluntly 4-angled. Leaves sub-sessile, 6-13 cm long, elliptic to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, serrulate, glabrous above, stellate-pubescent beneath, stipules interpetiolar, irregularly lobed. Flowers sessile, purple, in many-flowered clusters forming an erect spike, 10-20 cm long, bract linear, 2 mm long, pubescent. Calyx 3 mm long, lobes 4, ovate, acuminate. Corolla tube 8 mm long, curved, glabrous. Stamens 4, attached inside the corolla tube, anthers sessile. Ovary oblong, 1 mm long, style 1 mm, stigma oblong-ovate.
Fl. Per.: July-August.
C-8 Kashmir: c. 1800 m, Shalimar Gardens, R.R. Stewart 3215 (RAW), D-4 Baluchistan: Pishin, cult. E. Nasir s.n. 16. vii. 1957 (RAW).
Cultivated as an ornamental shrub.
