HORTUS VEITCHII 



BUDDLEIA ALBIPLOEA, Hemsl. 



Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxii. pp. 118, 139 ; Veitchs' List of Novelties, 1904, p. 5, fig. 



A species named by Mr. Hemsley from specimens collected in Central 

 China by Dr. Henry, whose notes state "Flowers white," and on this 

 account the specific name albiflora was chosen. 



The flowers, however, are not white, but pale mauve with an orange- 

 yellow throat. 



BUDDLEIA NIVEA, Duthie. 



Card. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 275, fig. 102. 



A new species from Central China and of doubtful promise. 



The flowers not so striking as those of some of the species recently 

 introduced, but this defect is compensated for by the great beauty of the 

 foliage, the whole under surface of which is, together with the young wood 

 and leaves, covered with a dense white woolly tomentum. 



The flowers in tail-like panicles at the ends of the branch are rose- 

 purple in colour, individually small, but in a mass conspicuous. 



BUDDLEIA VABIABILIS, Hemsl., var. MAGNIFICA, Hort. 



Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxvii. p. 115 (Report of R.H.S. Floral Committee) ; id, p. 157 

 (Report of R.H.S. Floral Committee) ; Flora and Sylva, 1905, vol. iii. p. 339. 



A very striking form of the well-known type introduced from the 

 Province of Hupeh, Central China, through Wilson. 



It differs from the brilliant Veitchiana, which it equals in size of flower- 

 spike, in profusion of bloom, in a more constricted thyrsus, and in having 

 flowers of a deeper richer shade of violet -purple. 



BUDDLEIA VARIABILIS, Hemsl., var. VEITCHIANA, Hort. 



Veitchs' List of Novelties, 1903, p. 4, fig. 



A superor form of the variable typical species, introduced from the 

 Province of Hupeh, Central China. 



The plant is more robust than the type, the flower spike larger, and 

 more richly coloured ; the spikes in some instances measure over 2 ft. 

 in length, and form continuous masses of bloom, not divided into globose 

 axillary clusters as in the type. 



Perfectly hardy in this country, it has been extensively planted since 

 1901. 



GffilSALPINIA JAPONICA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Nicholson in Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. iv. p. 513, fig. ; Gard. Mag. 1888, p. 445, fig. ; 

 The Garden, 1891, vol. xl. p. 588, pi. 837. 



A beautiful shrub from Japan, and the only representative of the genus 

 known to be hardy in Great Britain. 



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