BUDDLEJACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 201

CLIII. BUDDLEJACEAE 2

Trees, shrubs or rarely herbs with small, sessile or stipitate glands and usually stellate hairs. Leaves opposite, very rarely alternate, simple. Flowers actinomorphic or weakly zygomorphic, usually 4-merous. Disk small or absent. Stamens epipetalous, alternating with the corolla-lobes. Ovary superior or rarely semi-inferior, 2-locular; ovules numerous; placentation axile. Style 1. Fruit a capsule.

In addition to the species described below, Buddleja alternifolia Maxim. , Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Pétersb. 26: 494 (1880), and B. globosa J. Hope , Verh. Holland. Maatsch. Wetensch. Haarlem 20(2): 417 (1782), are commonly cultivated and may become naturalized. The former, from China, has alternate leaves and lilac flowers in sessile axillary clusters borne on the previous year’s wood. The latter, from Chile and Peru, has opposite leaves and orange flowers in long-pedunculate globose heads.