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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



shrub. Introduced In 1S1J. growing to the height of Sft., and producing its yellow flowers in abun- 

 D Juno and July. It is almost hardy, having stood in the Kew Garden, against a wall, 6 years, 

 without any protection whatever ; and in various other gardens about London, where the soil is dry, 

 M a border shrub. 



CHAP. LXXXV. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER 

 SCROPH UL ARIA N CE^. 



This order, which is nearly allied to 5olanaceae, consists chiefly of herba- 

 ceous plants, the only hardy ligneous genus being Buddlea. 



Genus I. 



n 



1124 



BU'DDLEJ L. The Buddlea. Lin. Syst. Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 140.; Reich., 146.; Schreb., 184.; Houst. Phil. Trans, et Reliq 

 Houst., t. 3. ; Ga?rtn., t. 49. ; Jus., 118. ; Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., p. 292. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 596. 



Derivation. Named by Dr. Houston, in honour of Adam Buddie, a botanical amateur, who is often 

 mentioned in Ray's Synopsis, and whose dried collection of British plants is preserved in the 

 British Museum. 



Gen. Char., eye. Calyx 4-cleft, equal. Corolla tubular ; limb 4-cleft, regular. 

 Stamens 4, equal, enclosed. Stigma capitate or clavate. Capsule 2-celled, 

 2-valved ; valves bifid. Placenta central, at length free. — Shrubs, with oppo- 

 site branches, the young shoots quadrangular. Natives of South America, 

 Asia, and Africa ; but of which only one species, a native of China, is 

 decidedly hardy in the neighbourhood of London. 



sfe 1. B. globo^sa L. The g\obe-Jlowered Buddlea. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 1. p. 150. ; Hope 



in Act. Harlem., vol. 20. pt. 2. p. 417. t. 11. ; 



Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 174. ; Don's Mill, 4. p. 597. 

 Synunymes. Buddlea globiflora N. Du Ham., 1. 



p. 85. t. 2.5. ; B. capitata Jacq. Col., 2. p. 332., 



Icon. liar., t. 307. ; Pdlquin Feuillee It., 3. p. 51. 



t. 38. ; Buddleiaglobulcux, Fr. ; Kopftragende 



Budleje, Ger. 

 Engravings. Act. Harlem., vol. 20. pt. 2. p. 417. 



til.; Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 174. ; N. Du Ham., 



1. p. 85. ; Feuillee It., 3. t. 38.: and our figs. 



lift, and 1124. 



Spec, Char., eye. Branches tetragonal, 

 clothed with hoary tomentum, as 

 well as the under 

 sides of the leaves. 

 Leaves lanceolate, 



acuminated, cre- 

 nated, petiolate. 

 Headfl of flowers 

 globose, peduncu- 

 late. A shrub, a 

 ' ' native of Chili, 



ir.' to the height of 12 ft. or 

 \5 ft. in the climate of London, and 



1 traducing its bright yellow globe- 

 ike \k M of flowers, which are fra- 

 crant, from May to July. It. was 



xiuced in 177 1, and is frequent 



m . \oi fh of London, it 



