Buddleja madagascariensis Lam.

Large spreading or rambling evergreen shrub to c. 5 m high. Shoots obscurely angular, tomentose. Lvs opposite; petioles 1–2.5 cm long; lamina 6–14 × 1.7–5.5 cm, lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate-elliptic, soon becoming glabrous above, white or pale brownish tomentose beneath, entire or slightly crenulate on vegetative shoots; base rounded, less often broad-cuneate or subcordate; apex acute. Panicles to c. 25 cm long, cylindric, rather tomentose; fls fragrant, sessile or subsessile, sometimes loose in the raceme. Bracts linear-subulate, to c. 6 mm long. Calyx 2.5–4 mm long; lobes short and triangular. Corolla tomentose outside; tube 6–7 mm long, pale yellow; lobes 2–3 mm long, pale yellow, becoming orange. Stamens inserted near apex of corolla tube, included; anthers sessile. Style slightly < stamens. Ovary tomentose at apex. Fr. not seen.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Sep.–Oct.