LOGANIACEAE. — BUDDLEIA 567 



tall, flowers white, fragrant). Hupeh: without locahty, A. Henry 

 (No. 3456). Yunnan: vicinity of Mengtze, ravines, alt. 1500- 

 1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 10443, 10443^ 10443"=); Che-yuan, A. 

 Henry (No. 10443"^); Szemao, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 10,443^ 

 11679). Formosa: south Cape, A. Henry (No. 200); Tamsui, 1903 

 N. Faurie (No. 465). 



Not common in western China; occurring as a river-bank shrub on the 

 sandy reaches of the Yangtsze and its affluents up to 500 m. altitude. A picture 

 of this shrub in bloom will be found under No. 0227 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Buddleia Davidii Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, X. 

 65 {PL David. II. 103) (1887). — Gagnepain in Lecomte, Not. Syst. 

 II. 188 (1912). 



Buddleia variabilis Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 120 (1889). — Hooker 

 f. in Bot. Mag. CXXIV. t. 7609 (1898). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 535 

 (1900). — Henry in Rev. Hort. 383, figs. 166-167 (384). — Wilson in Flora 

 & Sylva, III. 339 (1905).— Pampanini in Nuov.Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 

 691 (1910). — Dop in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LVII. M^m. XIX. 9 (1910). 

 — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 845, fig. 530 f-g, 531 d-i (1912). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, by the side of 

 streams, alt. 1300-2000 m., August and September (No. 613*; bush 

 1-2.5 m. tall, flowers purple); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300- 

 2300 m., August and October 1907 (No. 3347; bush 1.5-2 m. tall, 

 flowers purple); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 4166*, 3285). 

 Eastern Szech'uan: south Wushan, July 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 1347, in part). Western Szech'uan: Mupin, side of streams, alt. 

 2300 m,, August 1908 (No. 3349; bush 1-2 m., flowers purple); west 

 and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, side of streams, alt. 1300-2000 m. 

 July 1908 (No. 3350; bush 2 m. tall, flowers rose-purple); Tachien-lu, 

 roadside thickets, alt. 1600-2600 m., June 1908 (No. 3355; bush 1.5- 

 2 m. tall, flowers light purple) ; Mt. Omei, 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 5038); Min Valley, alt. 2100 m., August 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 4120); Nanch'uan, A. von Rosthorn (Nos. 438, 3007). 



Buddleia Davidii, var. magnifica Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Buddleia variabilis magnifica Wilson in Flora & Sylva, III. 340, fig. (1905). — 

 Garden, LXIX. 278, fig. (1906). -De Corte in Rev. Hort. Beige, XXXIII. 

 281, fig. (1907). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 846 (1912). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 613, flowering shoot only; bush 2 m. tall, flowers 



