270 BUCKLEYA BUDDLEIA 



may be adopted, such as sowing seeds near the roots of Tsuga out-of- 

 door, protecting by a handlight at first. Perhaps this shrub needs more 

 sun than it gets here, but it is capable of withstanding intense frost. I 

 remember a vigorous bush, 8 or 10 ft. high, in the botanic garden of 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., where the winter cold is much 

 more intense than what we experience. 



BUDDLEIA. LOGANIACE^:. 



The genus Butfdleia was named in honour of the Rev. Adam Buddie, 

 one time vicar of Farnbridge, in Essex. The species are small trees and 

 shrubs (rarely herbs) with often angled or winged stems ; opposite, usually 

 downy or woolly leaves; they are found in S. America, S. Africa, and 

 N. Asia. In the cultivated species the flowers are produced in terminal 

 and axillary racemes or panicles, on which they are grouped densely in 

 close clusters, except in B. globosa, where they appear in globular heads. 

 The calyx is bell-shaped, four- or five-toothed, or lobed; the corolla 

 tubular, with four lobes, often withering on the stalk and persisting. 

 Stamens four. Seed-vessel a capsule of two valves splitting from the 

 top. 



The Buddleias, provided the climate is suitable for them, are easily 

 cultivated. They all like a rich, loamy soil and a sunny position, and 

 are easily propagated by cuttings of late, summer growths, or by seeds. 

 The following species, with the exception of B. globosa, flower on the 

 growths of the year, and may be pruned back in spring before growth 

 commences. For those of the variabilis type this pruning is necessary 

 in order to get strong shoots and panicles. 



Buddleias not described in the following, notes are : B. ASIATICA, 

 Loureiro'i a slender, graceful shrub with long panicles of white, exquisitely 

 fragrant flowers produced in winter, but only hardy enough to grow out- 

 of-doors in summer. B. INTERMEDIA, Carriere, said to be a hybrid 

 between japonica and Lindleyana. B. LINDLEYANA, Fortune, too tender 

 for any but the mildest counties, but 10 to 12 ft. high in the Bath Botanic 

 Garden. 



B. ALBIFLORA, Hemsley. 



A strong-growing deciduous shrub, said by Henry to be sometimes a small 

 tree 20 to 30 ft. high ; branches erect, soon quite smooth. Leaves narrow 

 lanceolate, with a long tapered point and wedge-shaped base ; 4 to 9 ins. long, 

 \ to 2\ ins. wide, toothed, dark green, and soon becoming smooth above ; 

 covered beneath with a close, fine, silvery grey felt. Flowers fragrant, lilac 

 (not white), with orange-coloured centres, produced from July onwards in 

 slender, tapering panicles 8 to 18 ins. long, 2 ins. wide at the base, terminating 

 the main shoots, with smaller ones on lateral shoots. Corolla tube J in. long ; 

 persisting as in other species until burst off by the swelling seed-vessel beneath 

 it. Calyx smooth, bell-shaped, with pointed narrow lobes. 



Native of China ; discovered by Henry, and introduced in 1900 by Wilson, 

 who observes that it is fairly common on the shrub-clad mountains of Central 

 China at 3000 to 6000 ft. altitude. With the general aspect of B. variabilis, it 



