272 BUDDLEIA 



ordinarily 5 to 8 ins. long, about one-fourth as wide (occasionally consider- 

 ably larger), tapered at both ends, but more gradually towards the point ; round- 

 toothed, dark green and wrinkled but not downy above, covered beneath with a 

 tawny felt; stalk J in. or less long. Flowers fragrant, bright yellow, produced in 

 June in balls | in. diameter, eight or ten of these globose heads are arranged 

 in a terminal panicle in opposite pairs, each on a stalk I to i^ ins. long ; the 

 whole panicle 6 to 8 ins. long. 



Native of Chile and Peru ; introduced by Messrs Kennedy and Lee in 1774. 

 This singularly handsome and striking shrub is hardy at Kew ; the only time I 

 have seen it injured was in February 1895, when three out of four plants were 

 cut to the ground, but sprang up again the following summer. It is distinct 

 among cultivated Buddleias in the yellow of its flowers and their arrangement 

 in globular heads. 



B. JAPONICA, Hemsley. 



A deciduous shrub, usually 3 to 5 ft. high, open in habit, and sparsely 

 branched ; branches stiff, four-angled, the angles much winged. Leaves 

 narrow-lanceolate, 3 to 8 ins. long, i to 2 ins. wide ; minutely and sparsely 

 toothed ; dark green and smooth above, at first tawny-felted beneath. Flowers 

 crowded densely in terminal branched panicles, 4 to 8 ins. long. Corolla pale 

 lilac, woolly outside, the tube \ in. long ; the four lobes small. Calyx woolly, 

 pitcher-shaped, with slender-pointed lobes ; both calyx and corolla are persis- 

 tent on the seed-vessels, which are egg-shaped, \ in. long, and very freely borne. 



Native of Japan. This is not one of the best of the Buddleias, although 

 rather striking in autumn with the long, dense, drooping panicles of fruit. It 

 bears these in such abundance, that they appear to shorten the life of the 

 shrub. At any rate, after a few years it becomes weak and thin in growth, 

 and should be renewed (by seed rather than by cuttings). It has been 

 cultivated on the Continent as B. curviflora, but is not the true plant of that 

 name. Several forms have been raised from seed, the best of which is var. 

 INSIGNIS (Revue Horticole, 1878, fig. 76), a plant of more compact habit and 

 brighter coloured flowers than the type. 



B. NIVEA, Duthie. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, 1905, ii., fig. IO2.) 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 9 (perhaps more) ft. high, with the young branchlets 

 covered thickly with a pure white wool. Leaves of variable size, from the 

 largest, 10 ins. long by 4 ins. wide, down to others 3 to 4 ins. long and I in. 

 wide ; they are long-pointed, rounded at the base, angularly toothed except at 

 the end ; dark green and ultimately smooth above except on the midrib ; 

 covered beneath with a thick wool, at first pure white, then tawny. Panicles 

 branched, terminal on the main shoots, and supplemented by others at the end 

 of short axillary branches. Each portion of the panicle is slender, f to I in. 

 in diameter, and 3 to 6 ins. long. Flowers J in. long, pale purple, only showing 

 colour at the tip, the corolla-tube and calyx being covered with wool. 



Native of China ; discovered by Wilson in Western China, at altitudes of 

 7000 to 8000 ft., and introduced in 1901. It is a vigorous plant, but its chief 

 attraction is the snowy covering of the leaves, shoots, and panicles. It flowers 

 in August. 



B. PANICULATA, Wallich. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 4793, as B. crispa, -Bentham?) 



A deciduous shrub, of bushy habit, 6 to ,12 ft. high, more in diameter ; the 

 branchlets covered with a white or tawny, loose felt. Leaves lanceolate, 2 to 5 



