COLLECTIONS OF 1914. 
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flight of pendent little narrow Streptocarpus-flowers, of Strepto- 
carpus lavender, most beautifully contrasting with the shining 
silver rosette below. It is a thing of the greatest charm and 
daintiness, and ought to prove a treasure for our gardens in 
typical Ramondia-places and attitudes, in the cooler walls of 
the rock-garden, not exposed to excessive rain, and apparently 
preferring non-calcareous rock. There is a wee relation of this, 
not collected, with rare scapes of an inch from rosettes of an 
inch wide, which I have only once seen, forming enormous flat 
masses and curtains on certain cliffs just beyond Wen Hsien 
above the Whitewater, where it grows all curled and wizzled 
with the drought. 
Buddleia Farreri sp. no v. (F 44). — This is a luxuriant bush of 4-5 feet, 
confined to the very hottest and driest cliffs and walls and banks 
of the hot dry Blackwater region. In March unfold on the still 
naked stems, beset with white wool, great compound panicles of 
lilac, scented deliciously of raspberry ice, and making the bush like 
a glorified Veronica Hulkeana. Subsequently develops the lush 
and voluminous leafage of soft grey flannel, in shoots uprising 
on either side of the submerged seed-spikes. For long I despaired 
either of the plant's seed or its powers of growing in England, 
so intensely arid and tropical are its inclinations. However, we 
fortunately remembered a strayed outlier, occurring, and seeming 
happy, beside the track above the Satanee river in cool and 
subalpine conditions ; Purdom undertook the difficult and 
dangerous adventure, and seed was found to be lingering in the 
capsules. This specimen's acquiescence in so strange a station 
gives me my sole but cherished ground for hoping it may prove 
amenable in England to conditions less roasting than its own. 
At Mortola it should be at home [and even with us much more 
thriving hitherto than I dared hope (1916)]. 
Buddleia altemifolia (F 100) has much less stringent views on drought. 
It is found occurring down the little tributary which joins the 
Blackwater at Naindzai, ranging sporadically up that district 
as far as Lodanee, and with a big outburst below Tan Ch'ang in 
the Nan Ho Valley ; it prefers steep dry banks and open warm 
places, where it grows like a fine-leaved and very graceful weeping 
willow, either as a bush or a small-trunked tree, until its pendulous 
sprays erupt all along into tight bunches of purple blossom at 
the end of May, so generous that the whole shrub turns into a 
soft and weeping cascade of colour. It ought to do well in 
England, but will probably take time before it shows the full 
elegance and profusion of its lovely character. 
Buddleia Purdomii sp. no v. (F 14) has not been collected. It haunts 
the hottest and steepest cliffs and banks down the Blackwater 
from Kiai Chow to Wen Hsien, not ascending to Siku. It is a 
hoary-grey-leaved little shrub, with wax-pink Verbenoid flowers 
in heads in early April. 
