LOGANIACEAE. 



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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. 



