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vinous-purple, fragrant); Patung Hsien, side of streams, alt. 1300- 
2000 m., August 1907 (No. 3346; bush 1.5-2.5 m. tall, flowers rosy- 
purple, fragrant); without locality, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 
1249), A. Henry (No. 7008). Western Szech’uan: Lungan Fu, 
Tu-ti-liang-shan, alt. 1800 m., August 1910 (No. 4639; bush 2-2.5 m. 
tall, flowers violet-purple). 
This is the handsomest of all the varieties and is distinguished by its large, 
bright, violet-purple flowers with a deep orange eye and by the always reflexed mar- 
gins of the petals. The panicles are long and densely flowered. This variety is a 
conspicuous feature in August by the sides of mountain streams up to 2000 m. alti- 
tude. A picture of this shrub will be found under No. 0256 of Wilson’s collection 
of photographs, 
Buddleia Davidii, var. superba Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Buddleia variabilis, var. superba De Corte in Rev. Hort. Belge, XXXV. 12 
fig. (1909). : 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, side of stream, alt. 1600— 
2300 m., October 1907 (No. 613, fruiting branch only; bush 2 m. 
tall. Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 2000-2600 m., 
September 1908 (No. 3352; bush 1.5-2 m. tall, flowers purple, 
fragrant). 
Buddleia Davidii, var. Wilsonii Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Buddleia variabilis, var. Wilsonii Hort in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXVI. 155 
(nomen nudum) (1904). — Wilson in Flora & Sylva, III. 340, (1905). — 
Schneider, IU. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 847 (1912). 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 1600-2000 m., August 
1907 (No. 3348; bush 2.5 m. tall, flowers lilac-purple). 
This variety is distinguished by its long, rather laxly flowered pendant panicles 
and sub-erect corolla lobes, with crinkled and reflexed margins. The internodes 
are very long, the leaves long and tapering, and the flowers larger than those of 
any other variety and of a bright rose-lilac color, 
Buddleia Davidii, var. alba Rehder & Wilson, n. var. : 
A typo recedit floribus albis, foliis anguste lanceolatis utrinque 
angustatis 6-7 cm. longis et 10-12 mm. latis, minute serrulatis. 
Western Szech'uan: Lungan Fu, Tu-ti-liang-shan, alt. 1800 m., 
August 1910 (No. 4638; one bush only was seen). 
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