BUDDLEIA 273 



ins. long, f to. ij ins. wide ; slightly heart-shaped or cut nearly square at the 

 base, tapering thence to the point, coarsely and angularly toothed, covered 

 above, and more so below, with a whitish or tawny down ; stalk to I in. 

 long. Flowers fragrant, produced in June or later in a terminal panicle 3 ins. 

 high and 2 ins. wide, formed of axillary whorls. Corolla lilac-coloured ; the 

 tube ^ in. long, downy outside ; the four-lobed limb about as much in diameter, 

 white near the orifice of the tube. Calyx with erect, ovate lobes, woolly like the 

 stem. 



Native of Afghanistan and the Himalaya, where it is occasionally a small 



BUDDLEIA NIVEA. 



tree ; a similar but not identical plant is found in W. China. At Kew, a plant 

 raised from seed sent home by Dr Aitchison from Afghanistan in 1879 i s 

 perfectly hardy, having received no protection during the last thirty years. 



B. VARIABILIS, Hemsley. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7609 ; B. Davidii, Franc/iet.*) 



A deciduous shrub, very variable in habit and flower, the largest forms 

 lo to 15 ft. high and'wide-spreading bushes of open growth ; branchlets four- 

 angled, downy. Leaves 4 to 12 ins. long, I to 3 ins. wide; lanceolate or 



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