Buddleia. LOGANIACEiE. 109 



Michx. Fl. i. 148. 0. ovaUfoUa, Muhl. Cat. 0. Croomii, Curtis in Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. i. 

 128. Var. angustifoUa, Torr. & Gray, 1. c, is a depauperate state of tlie narrower-leaved 

 form. — Moist ground, N. Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 



4, POLiYPREMUM, L. (Name altered from nolvTtQsp'og, with many 

 trunks, from the diffuse branching next the ground.) — Single species, an insig- 

 nificant weed : fl. late summer. 



P. procuuibens, L. A span or more high, much branched from an annual (sometimes 

 almost ligneous) root, glabrous; the rigid stems erect or ascending rather than procum- 

 bent, 4-angled, repeatedly branching : leaves narrowly linear or almost acerose, half inch 

 or more long, the uppermost gradually reduced to bracts, their margins obscurely scabrous, 

 their bases united by a membranous sti2)ular line : flowers sessile in the forks or somewhat 

 cymose at the summit of the branches : inconspicuous coroUa barely a line long, white. — 

 Act. Ups. 1741, p. 78; Lam. 111. t. 71. P. Liiimru, Michx. Fl. i. 83. — Sandy soil, Penn. 

 (adventive), Maryland to Texas. (Mex., W. lud.) 



5. BUDDLiEIA, Houston. (Adam Buddie, an early English botanist, who 

 corresponded with Ray.) — Shrubs, or some arborescent, a few herbaceous (mainly 

 tropical), usually canescent or tomentose with Hoccose or furfuraceons stellate 

 down ; the leaves sometimes dentate, the petioles connected by a transverse 

 stipular line, or by more evident stipules. P'lowers commonly small, and crowded 

 into capitate clusters or cymules, which are variously disposed ; rarely some are 

 ."i-mcrous ; the corolla in our few (chiefly Mexican) species very short. 



* Flowers in comparatively loose and very numerous clusters, disposed in an ample and naked 

 terminal panicle. 



B. Humboldtiana, Roem. & Schult. Minutely fcrrugineous-tomcntose : leaves 

 oblong- or ovatedancoolate, acuminate, denticulate, 3 inches long, rounded at base, rather 

 long-petioled, copiously pinnately-veined, in age glabrate above : flowers a line and a half 

 long.— Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 438. B. acuminata, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. ii. 349, t. 187, 

 not Poir. — Mexican borders of S. W. Texas and New Mexico, Tharber, &c. (Mex.) 

 B. LAXCEOLATA, Benth., with smaller and narrower leaves tapering to base, and simpler 



contracted inflorescence, also inhabits Northern Mexico, and may reach the bovmdary. B. 



CROTONOiDEs, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. v. 165, is from Lower California, under the tropic. 

 * * Flowers in numerous and small dense pedunculate heads, disposed in avirgate raceme. 



B. racemosa, Torr. Stems 1 to 3 feet high, loosely branching, nearl}' glabrous : leaves 

 from ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate with a truncate or obscurely hastate base, irregu- 

 larly crenate-dentate, mostly obtuse, thinnish, 2 to 4 inches long, short-petioled, green and 

 glabrous above, puberulent-cancscent beneath : raceme of heads a span to a foot long : 

 lieads about a quarter inch in diameter, on shorter or longer peduncles : corolla little 

 exceeding the tomentidose calyx. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 121. — llocky banks, W. Texas. 

 Lindhc'ivur, lliddell, \\'ri(/ht, &c. 



Var. incana, Torr. l. c. Leaves barely an inch long, fulvous-cancscent-tomentose 

 beneath. — San Pedro River. W. Texas, Wri/jlit. 



* * * Flowers in solitary or geminate heads or capitate clusters: leaves, branches, and heads 

 densely soft-tomentoso throughout. 



B. marrubiifolia, Benth. 1- c. Much branched, canescent or ferrugineons : leaves obo- 

 vate or oval with cuneate base, arcuate, about half incli long, short-petioled, the dense 

 tomentuni somewhat velvety : flowers in a globose terminal head (half inch in diameter) 

 on a short peduncle, "odorous: corolla golden yellow turning orange red." — Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 121. — S. Texas on the Rio Grande. (Mex.) 



B. SCOrdioides, HBK. Much branched, ferrugineons tomentose : leaves narrowly 

 oblong or cuneatc-linear, nearly sessile, obtuse, coarsely crenate, rugose, an inch or less 

 long : dense clusters of flowers sessile in the axils of all the upper leaves, the pair com- 

 bined around the stem into a globular head. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. I.e. t. 183; Torr. I. c. — 

 S. E. Texas to Arizona. (Mex.) 



