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very variable in size in each fascicle, the smallest 4 in. long, 
1 in. wide, the largest up to 1} in. long and 3 in. wide; they are 
quite glabrous. Flowers bright yellow, small, { in. wide, produced 
in April and May densely packed in pendulous racemes | to 1? in. 
long, }in. wide. Fruit globose, } in. wide, salmon red. 
B. Vernae is a vigorous grower and evidently perfectly hardy. 
The small pendent racemes thickly packed with flowers are very 
distinct and give a graceful effect. At one place in China Wilson 
found this shrub used for forming hedges. The specific name 
was given in compliment to Miss Verna Berger, daughter of 
Mr. A. Berger, once of the La Mortola Garden, Ventimiglia. 
Buddleia alternifolia, Maximowicz. (Loganiaceae.| 
A deciduous shrub of very vigorous growth up to 10 or 12 feet 
high, making shoots several feet long during the summer and 
forming a widely branched, loose shrub as much through as it 
is high; young shoots at first covered with grey scurf, soon 
becoming glabrous; grey and glossy the second year. Leaves 
alternate, entire, lanceolate, 14 to 4 in. long, } to 4 in. wide, 
dark dull green above, glaucous beneath. Flowers produced in 
June from the previous year’s growths, crowded in short-stalked 
clusters borne at the nodes. The corolla is bright lilac-purple, 
about 4 in. long, the lower part a slender cylindrical tube dividing 
at the mouth into four lobes. Calyx tubular, } in. long. four- 
lobed, glaucous and scurfy like the pedicels, which are about 
as long as the calyx. 
Although described by Maximowicz as long ago as 1880, this 
was introduced as lately as 1916 from Kansu by Farrer and 
Purdom. Its most distinctive character is, of course, the alternate 
arrangement of the leaves, all the other cultivated species having 
opposite ones. It is an attractive shrub and flowers best when 
grown in the sunniest spots. The flowers are fragrant, but are 
more so in some other species. It thrives exceptionally well in 
Mr. Lionel de Rothschild’s garden at Inchmery, on the Solent. 
It is propagated with the greatest ease by means of summer 
leafy cuttings. 
Caryopteris tangutica, Mazximowicz. [Verbenaceae. | 
The genus Caryopteris has been known in gardens since 1844, 
when Fortune introduced C. Mastacanthus from China. This 
new species, C. tangutica, was introduced by the late Reginald 
Farrer about 1915 from Western Kansu. C. Mastacanthus, a 
beautiful and satisfactory shrub farther south and west, has not 
_proved wholly hardy at Kew, although it is only during very 
hard winters that it is killed. It was found by Fortune near 
Canton, and as the climate of Western Kansu is probably colder, 
it is possible C. tangutica may turn out to be the hardier species. 
It was discovered in 1880 by the Russian traveller Przewalsky 
and is described as a bushy shrub 3 to 5 feet high, the semi-woody 
young stems as well as the undersurface of the leaves and the 
flowerstalks being covered with a close, grey indumentum. 
Leaves opposite, ovate, ? to 14 in. long, with usually four coarse, 
