Tas. 840]. 
BUDDLEIA oFfFIcInatts. 
China. 
LoGANIACEAE. Tribe EULOGANIEAE. 
Buppueta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 793. 
Buddleia officinalis, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb. vol. xxvi. (1880), p. 496, 
et Mélang. Biol. vol. x. p. 675; Oliv. in Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 1972; Heis/. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 675; Gard. Chron. 1911, vol. xlix. p. 201, 
cum fig.; ex affinitate B. macrostachyae, Benth., a qua foliis petiolatis, 
glomerulis pedunculatis, ramis fere teretibus, floribusque minoribus differt. 
Frutex ramosissimus, 1-2°5 m. altus. Rami fere teretes, dense cinereo- 
tomentosi. olia oblongo- vel lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, circiter 10 cm. 
longa, 1-2-5 em. lata, integra vel argute serrulata, supra sparse appresse 
pilosa, subtus dense cinereo-tomentosa; petioli 5 mm. longi, supra canali- 
culati. Zhyrsi ad ramos terminales, 8-30 cm. longi; glomeruli breviter 
pedunculati, 3-10-flori; pedicelli quam calycis tubus breviores ; bracteolae 
lineares, pedicellis aequilongae. Calyx 3 mm. longus, extra dense tomen- 
tosus; tubus quam lobi obtusi duplo longior. Corolla pallide vel obscure 
lilacina, fauce aurantiaca; tubus circiter 10 mm. longus, leviter curvatus, 
utrinque pilosus; limbus 6 mm. diametro; lobi 4, late elliptici, obtusi. 
Antherae 1*5 mm. infra corollae faucem affixae, oblongae. Ovariwm 2 mm. 
longum, apicem versus tomentosum; stylus brevis, basi pubescens; 
stigma longum, clavatum, 2-fidum. Capsula ovoidea, obtusa, calyce duplo 
longior.— B. madagascariensis, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 37, non Lam.— 
C. H. Wricut. 
The Buddleia which forms the subject of our illustration 
was originally discovered by Dr. Piasezki in the provinces 
of Shensi and Kansu in Northern China, and was first 
described from his specimens by the late Mr. Maximowicz 
thirty years ago. The name JB. officinalis, then applied to 
it, has reference to the circumstance that, according to 
Piasezki, the flower buds are collected and carried to 
Hankow, where they are sold as a medicine. The plant 
has since been found by Mr. A. Henry in the province of 
Hupeh in Central China, and has more recently been met 
with in the Yang-tze valley by Mr. E. H. Wilson wher 
collecting on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum. To Wilson 
horticulture is indebted for the introduction of the species 
to cultivation, and the material for our figure has been 
obtained from a plant raised from seed presented by 
Professor Sargent in 1908, which flowered at Kew in 
Ocroser, 1911, 
