1146 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



these 10 to 25 cm. long ; calyx 2 to 2.5 mm. long, tomentulose, the lobes deltoid, 

 obtuse or acute; corolla barbate within, the tube about as long as the calyx, 

 the 4 lobes rounded, tomentulose outside ; capsule 5 mm. long. " Tepoz5,n " 

 (Coahuila, Zacatecas). 



The following additional collections belong here : Palmer 869, 718, 709, 138^ ; 

 Arsine 6380 ; Pringle 1887. 



10. Buddleia elliptica Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 122: 24. 1845. 



Type from Pico de Quinceo, near Morelia, Michoaciin, altitude 2,100 meters. 

 Leaves short-petiolate, elliptic-rounded, 7.5 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, tomentose 

 beneath, entire ; Ilower heads crowded, densely paniculate. 

 Known to the writer only from the original description. 



11. Buddleia cordata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 348. pi. 185. 1817. 

 Buddleia acuminata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 349. pi. 1S7. 1817. Not B. 



acuminata Poir. 1810. 



Buddleia humboldtiana Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 3: Mant. 93. 1827. 



Buddleia ovaUfolia Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1844. 



Buddleia macropJiylla Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1844. 



Buddleia cordata tcposan Loesener, Verb. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 53: 73. 1911. 



Chihuahua to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Chiapas, and Oaxaca ; type from 

 Guanajuato. 



Shrub or small tree, 4.5 to 6 meters high ; leaves long-petiolate, narrowly 

 lanceolate to ovate, 8 to 30 cm. long, acute or attenuate, usually subcordate 

 at base but rarely only obtuse or even i^hort-decurrent, entire or serrulate, 

 when young often loosely tomentose above but usually soon glabrous, loosely 

 tomentose beneath, the tomentum persstent, sometimes with a minute tomentum 

 beneath the longer hairs; flower heads in very large, naked, terminal panicles. 

 "Tepozan" (Mexico, Durango, Tlaxcala) ; " tepozdn bianco" (Guanajuato, 

 Dug^s). 



Decoction of the bark and root used as a diuretic, for uterine affections, 

 and for rheumatism. 



12. Buddleia crotonoides A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 5: 165. 1861. 

 Southern Baja California; type from Cape San Lucas. 



Shrub, densely brown-tomentose throughout ; leaves sliort-petiolate, oblong- 

 ovate or deltoid-ovate, 7 to 12 cm. long, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at 

 base, thick, crenate; flower heads small, in panicled spikes. 



13. Buddleia floccosa Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1844. 



"i Buddleia propinqua Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1844. 



Buddleia floccosa crassifolia Loesener, Verb. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 53: 72. 

 1911. 



MichoacSn to Morelos and Oaxaca. Central America. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high; leaves short-petiolate, narrowly or broadlj 

 lanceolate, 4 to 15 cm. long, acute or attenuate, sessile or short-petiolate, some- 

 times abruptly long-decurrent at base, entire or serrate, brown-tomentose be- 

 neath, tomentulose or glabrate alx>ve; flower clusters 1 cm. in diameter or les-s, 

 very dense. " Tepozdn," "tzompantle" (Oaxaca, Seler). 



14. Buddleia americana L. Sp. PI. 112. 1753. 



1 Buddleia intermedia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 350. 1817. 

 Buddleia callicarpioides H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 350. 1817. 

 Buddleia florihunda H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 352. 1817. 

 Buddleia rufescens Willd. ; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 3 : Mant. 97. 1827. 

 Buddleia decurrens Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5 : 105. 1830. 



