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BUDDLEA Lindleyana. 
The purple Chinese Buddlea. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARIACEZ. — (Ficwonmrs, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 681. ined.) 
BUDDLEA, L.— Botanical Register, t. 1259. 
B. Lindleyana ; glabra, fruticosa, ramis tetragonis, foliis ovatis acuminatis 
breviter petiolatis nunc subserratis, racemis terminalibus verticillatim 
spicatis tomentosis, calycis dentibus brevibus triangularibus, corolle 
tubo elongato infra medium ventricoso laciniis obtusis.— Fortune in 
Bot. Reg. 1844. misc. 25. char. emend. 
One of the earliest plants found by Mr. Fortune, upon his 
arrival in Chusan, was that which is now represented. He 
immediately sent home seeds, with a particular request that 
the species, if new, might bear its present name ; and in little 
more than three months after they were posted in Chusan, 
plants were growing in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society. Heat thesame time transmitted a Chinese drawing, 
which represented it as a plant of considerable beauty. 
Dried specimens have now reached this country, and one of 
them is before us. It consists of a branch not quite a foot and 
half long, on which there have been growing seven spikes of 
flowers from two to three inches long each. ‘The natural ap- 
pearance of those flowers will be seen from our figure. Their 
colour is a deep rich violet, a little verging upon grey, on 
account of the numerous short hairs with which they are 
closely covered. 
In cultivation this shrub has hitherto proved unwilling to 
flower; it grows very vigorously, running to wood as we say, 
and requiring some special mode of management in order to 
stop its exuberant vegetation. It is about as hardy as a 
Fuchsia. The specimen figured was taken from a plant in 
the large conservatory of the Horticultural Society ; but it was 
