LOGANIACE^ 



ORANGE-BALL TREE, Buddkia globosa. 



Gardens. May, June. Warm soils in S. England, on south or south- 

 west walls in colder districts. In the neighbourhood of London it is the 

 handsomest and most useful of the Buddleias. It prefers a rich, moist 

 soil. 



Flowers orange-yellow, in a terminal, globose, cymose cluste?; 1 in. diara., 

 pedunculate ; Calyx equally 4-toothed ; Corolla tubular-campanulate, 4-cleft, 

 limb spreading ; F?-uit a capsule. 



Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, crenate, 6 ins. long, upper side 

 dark green and wrinkled, under side pale brown hoary tomentose, reticulately 

 veined, petioles short. 



A deciduous sliruh, 10-20 ft.; Branches sub-tetragonal, hoary tomentose; 

 growth rapid. 



Native of Chili and Peru ; iTitroduced by Messrs. Lee & Kennedy, 1774. 

 Genus named in honour of Rev. Adam Buddie, at one time V^icar of Farnbridge, 

 in Essex (died 1715). 



Buddleiu paniculatu. 



Gardens. INIay, June. Thrives in loamy soil. 



Flowers lilac, fragrant, in a dense terminal panicle, flowers nearly sessile, 

 bracts lanceolate ; Calyx 4-partite, persistent, tomentose, lobes short, obtuse ; 

 Corolla 4-cleft, tube \ in. long, tomentose, imbricate ; Stamens 4, inserted 

 on corolla tube, anthers nearly sessile ; Ovary superior, 2-celled, style clavate ; 

 Fruit a 2-valved capsule. 



Leaves opposite, very variable, oblong-lanceolate, entire, or hastate and 

 deeply sinuate-dentate, greyish-tomentose, petiole sometimes winged. 



A deciduous shrub, G-8 ft. ; Branchlets tomentose ; Bark peeling. 



Native of Afghanistan, Baluchistan, N. India, and China. Discovered by 



Dr. \Vallich in Kumaon ; seeds sent to Great Britain by Major Maddon. 



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