Tas. 7449. 
BUDDLEIA Cotvitet. 
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya, 
Nat. Ord. LogantacEa#.—Tribe EULOGANIER. 
Genus Buppveta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 793.) 
Buppte1a OColvilei; arbuscula v. frutex, ramulis foliisque junioribus ferru- 
gineo-tomentosis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis crenulato-serratis adultis 
glabratis in petiolum brevem angustatis, paniculis terminalibus pendulis 
oblongis multifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis pubescentis 
lobis ovatis obtuse acuminatis, corolle roseo-purpures v. coccines tubo 
cylindraceo superne paullo ampliato intus piloso calyce duplo longiore 
lobis rotundatis marginibus recurvis, ore albo, antheris oblongis, ovario 
pubescente, capsula oblonga, seminibus oblongis, testa laxa 3-alata 
reticulata. 
B. Colvilei, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Hook. f. Ill. Himal. Pl.t. 18. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. (errore Colvillei) 81. Gamble List of Trees & 
Shrubs, &e. of Darjeeling, p. 56; Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 267, The 
Garden, xliv. (1893) p. 482, cum Ic. Gard. Chron. 1892, vol, ii. p. 187. 
André in Rev. Hortic. 1893, p. 520, ewm Ic. Garnier in Ill. Hortic. 
Ser. vi. p. 1, t. 10. Journ. Hort. Ser. iti. vol. xxxi. p. 85, cum Ie. 
Buddleia Colvilei is certainly the handsomest of all 
Himalayan shrubs, and it is impossible to exaggerate its 
beauty as seen in the borders of a Sikkim forest, covered 
with pendulous masses of rose-purple or crimson flowers 
relieved by the dark green foliage. Unfortunately, as 
grown and flowered by that enthusiastic cultivator of rare . 
plants, Mr. Gumbleton, at Belgrove, Co. Cork, and who 
alone has flowered the plant in Europe, the colour of the 
corolla is considerably paler than in Sikkim. In my “ Illus- 
trations of Himalayan Plants,” I figured it as crimson from 
a drawing made by myself on the spot in 1849, when I first 
saw it in flower. This colour is confirmed by Mr. Gamble 
(Conservator of Indian Forests), who knew the plant well, 
and who in his “ List of Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of 
Darjeeling,” and subsequently in his admirable “ Manual 
of Indian Timbers,” calls it ‘‘ an extremely handsome tree, 
with masses of dark crimson flowers, which appear in 
August, and make the tree very conspicuous in its habitat 
on the summits of Tonglo.” It will be observed that Mr, 
DecemBer Ist, 1895. 
