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white, fragrant, tubular with spreading lobes, in few-flowered racemes at joints 

 of stem. Fruit 5x3, grooved. Brazil. (Fig. 76 h.) 



Marsdenia erecta (Cyanchum erectum). 20. July. D, Ls. ov., 2, heart- 

 shaped base, pointed, pale glaucous green. Fls. I, white, fragrant, in terminal and 

 axillary branched clusters. Fruit 3, cone- or spindle-shaped, pointed. Asia 

 Minor. (Fig. 76 e.) 



Metaplexis japonica (M. Stauntonii). 20. July-September. D. Ls. ov., 4, 

 heart-shaped base. Fls. ^, pinkish, bell-shaped, with reflexed sepals. Fruit 4, 

 spindle-shaped. China and Japan. 



Periploca graeca. Silk Vine. 30. July-August. D. Ls. ov., 4, veins parallel 

 ending in marginal vein. Fls. i, greenish outside, brownish purple inside, in 

 branched clusters at end of short side shoots. Seed-pods 5, in pairs usually joined 

 at ends. South-east Europe and Orient. (Fig. 76 F.) 



Family 69. LOGANIACEAE. K (4-5), C (4-5), A4-5, G (2) 



Ls. stipulate. 



BUDDLEIA. Butterfly Bush. Stems usually ribbed or angled. Ls. usually 

 opposite, short-stalked. Fls. small, tubular or bell-shaped, in small clusters 

 grouped together in spikes or panicles. Fruit a dry capsule. 



(a) Ls. alternate 



B. alternifolia. 20. June. D. Branchlets arching or drooping. Ls. lane, 4, 

 pointed, tapering base, dull dark green above, glaucous below. Fls. 

 lilac purple, in clusters on old wood. China. (Fig. 125 A.) l| 



{b) Ls. opposite ; stems winged at angles 1 



B. japonica. 5. July. D. Stems 4-angled. Ls. lane, 8, minutely and distantly 

 toothed, dark green above, tawny-felted below. Fls. pale lilac, in terminal 

 drooping spikes. Japan. A 



B. Lindleyana. 6. July-August. D. Stems 4-angled, hairless. Ls. ov., lane, 

 4, tapering base, coarsely toothed, hairless. Fls. purplish violet, in up- 

 right spikes. Japan. (Fig. 57 B.) 



(c) Ls. opposite ; stems not winged 



* B. auriculata. 8. August-September. D. Branchlets cylindrical. Ls. ov., 



lane, 3, distantly toothed in outer half, bright green and somewhat 

 wrinkled above, white- or rusty-felted below, about five pairs veins. 

 Fls. orange-yellow, in axillary racemes at end of shoots. South Africa. 

 (Fig. 57 D.) 

 B. Colvilei. 40. June-September. D. Branches arching or drooping, covered 

 with reddish wool when young. Ls. lane, 10, shallowly toothed, tapered 

 at both ends, dark green above, felted below. Fls. crimson, in large 

 terminal panicles. East Himalaya. (Fig. 57 G.) 



* B. Fallowiana. 8. August-September. D. Young stems white-felted. 



Ls. lane, 8, long-pointed, wedge-shaped base, shallowly toothed, white- 

 felted below. Fls. pale lilac, in long terminal panicles. China. 



* B. Farreri. 10. May. D. Young stems white-felted. Ls. ov., lane, 12, 



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