LOGANIACEAE. 321 
BUDDLEIA. 
(Family Loganiaceae). 
Soft- wooded shrubs or half- 
. Shrubs: deciduous. Stems more 
or less strongly 4-ridged, rather 
slender, puberulent or _ yellow- 
woolly or glabrescent: pith rela- 
tively large, white, continuous. 
Buds sessile, sometimes  super- 
posed and the upper commonly 
developing the first season, ob- 
long, with a pair of exposed 
scales. Leaf-scars opposite, half- 
round or triangular, small, low: 
bundle-trace 1, roundish: stipule- 
scars transversely connected. 
Winter-character reference to 
Buddleia japonica:—Schneider, f. 
125. 
Buddleias, which are coming in- 
to popularity for cultivation under 
glass as well as in the open, be- 
long to a group of rather pithy 
and soft-wooded or suffruticose plants, untidy in winter un- 
less cut back, of which Vitex, Callicarpa and Caryopteris are 
other examples. 
Stems gray-puberulent: buds small. (1). B. Davidii. 
Stems yellow-tomentose: buds larger (5 mm.). (2). B.nivea. 
