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is not so good a shrub ; the brahchlets are not so square, the leaves are more 

 distinctly stalked and the calyx differs in being smooth. 



B. HEMSLEYANA, Koehne, is nearly allied to, perhaps only an inferior form 

 of, B. albiflora It is only worth growing in collections. The flowers have not 

 the orange-coloured eye seen in those of albiflora or variabilis. 



B. COLVILEI, Hooker fiL 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7449-) 



A shrub or small tree, 30 to 40 ft. high in the Himalaya, of vigorous growth, 

 producing long arching shoots in one season ; all the younger parts of the 

 plant are at first covered with 

 red-brown wool. Leaves 3 to 

 10 ins. long, | to i\ ins. wide ; 

 oval lance - shaped, shallowly 

 toothed, tapered at both ends ; 

 dark green, at first downy above 

 and felted beneath, but becom- 

 ing nearly smooth on both sur- 

 faces. Flowers produced in 

 June in a terminal pendulous 

 panicle, 6 to 8 ins. long, about 

 3 ins. wide. Corolla of a beauti- 

 ful rose colour, white in the 

 throat, the tube f to i in. long, 

 as much or more across the 

 limb ; the four lobes rounded, 

 recurved. Calyx bell -shaped, 

 with short lobes. 



Native of the Sikkim Hima- 

 laya, up to 12,000 ft. ; discovered 

 by Sir Joseph Hooker in 1849. 

 It first flowered with the late 

 Mr W. E. Gumbleton at Bel- 

 grove, near Cork, in 1892, where, 

 growing against a wall, it has 

 only been injured by the frosts 

 of early 1895. I n several places 

 on the west coast of Scotland 

 also it succeeds admirably. The 

 nearest locality to London where 

 it has flowered well out-of-doors 

 is in the garden of Grayswood, 

 Haslemere. No other Buddleia 

 capable of living out-of-doors 

 in the British Isles has such 

 large individual flowers, and it BUDDLEIA COLVILEI, 



is undoubtedly the handsomest 



in the genus; Sir J. Hooker even said, "the handsomest of all Himalayan 

 shrubs." 



B. GLOBOSA, Hope. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 174.) 



A partially evergreen, or, in hard winters, deciduous shrub, 15 ft. high in the 

 open, still more on walls and in favoured places ; of rather open, gaunt habit ; 

 stems angular, covered with a tawny, loose felt. Leaves lance-shaped, 



