NOTEWORTHY PLANTS IN THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN, II. 193 
recover after apparent death from this treatment. It is easily rooted 
from cuttings of half-ripe shoots, and should be in every garden where 
shrubs are valued and where a situation can be found for it to display 
its ultimate ten feet of height and wide spread of branches. 
4. BUDDLEIA VARIABILIS Var. NANHOENSIS.* 
In the same Kansu journey Farrer found many forms of Buddleia 
variabilis, and in the vicinity of Kwanting in the Nan-Ho valley, he 
found forms with smaller leaves than usual and with longer spikes, 
and he collected seed which he sent home under the number F424 
in the hope that the form he saw might be constant. He speaks, too, 
of this species " growing especially neat and small, and dainty-leaved 
and brilliant " f in pure river silt, but it is not clear whether he 
collected seed from the forms growing there, and he apparently 
thought they owed something of their daintiness to their position. 
" Dainty " is not an adjective we can properly apply to the magnifi- 
cent forms so well known in gardens under the names Veitchiana, 
magnifica, and Wilsoni which make such large growth and are so 
robust in every way. Still less can it be applied to the type which 
Dr. Henry found near Ichang, and which was the first form to be intro- 
duced, for that was weak in the stem, sprawling in habit, and had 
poor spikes of flowers, but it can certainly be applied to the seedlings 
raised from Farrer's seeds, for growing alongside ' magnifica ' it proves 
to be indeed " neat, and small, and dainty-leaved." Its flowers vary 
in shade in different plants, but the best are as good as the best of 
any other variety. The difference in stature is apparently constant 
but it is not secured at the expense of grace, and its habit is similar 
to that of Veitchiana with erect, arching branches on a smaller scale, 
so that it forms a neat, rounded bush about 3 ft. 6 in. high, and 
is of such a size that one may confidently plant it in even the 
small garden where its late flowering (July onwards) should render 
it an acquisition among flowering shrubs of moderate size. The 
same hard pruning of the previous year's growth may be practised 
with this as with the larger varieties. So distinct is it that it is 
deserving of a distinctive name 4 It has been distributed widely 
from Wisley during the past three years under the name ' Buddleia 
sp. Farrer 424 and 242.' 
5. Clematis tangutica var. obtusiuscula Rehder and Wilson 
(fig- 49)- 
Yellow is not a common colour in the genus Clematis, but several 
collectors have sent home seeds of yellow-flowered forms from China 
during recent years, and of these the best is the subject of this note. 
* Frutex m. altus ; ramuli erecti graciles ; folia lanceolata, ad cir. 12 cm. 
longa et 2-4*5 cm - lata. 
t See Journal R.H.S., 42, p. 64. 
% Farrer gives the varietal name ' Nan-Hor' in On the Eaves of the World, 2, 
p. 319, and we have latinized it. 
