TREES AND SHRUBS 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . Gamopetalce 

 Natural Order . . . Loganiacece 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs, mostly with a very bitter juice ; Leaves opposite, 

 entire, and usually stipulate ; petioles sometimes dilated and connate at base, 

 with the stipules reduced to an obsolete border ; Calyx 4— 5-partite, sepals 

 sometimes distinct ; Corolla 4-5 or 10-cleft ; Stamens epipetalous, equal in 

 number to lobes of corolla, alternate with lobes when 4-5, opposite when 

 10 ; Ova?'y superior, usually 2-celled, rarely 3-4-celled ; Fruit drupaceous, 

 capsular, or baccate. 



COLVILLE'S BUDDLEIA, Buddleia CohiUei. 



Gardens. June — August. Hardy in West of England. Best against a south- 

 west wall, or as a bush in a warm corner in well-drained soil. Sir J. Hooker 

 calls this the handsomest of Himalayan shrubs. Prune away dead or straggling 

 shoots. Propagated by cuttings of firm shoots with heel in sandy soil in 

 cold frame in September ; seeds in light soil in temperature of 60° in March. 



Flowei's rosy-purple or crimson, resembling a small Pentstemon, in a 

 thij7'siform panicle, 1-1^ ft. long, drooping pedicels } in. long, bracteoles small, 

 setaceous ; Calyx broad-campanulate, \ in. long, lobes hairy ; Corolla in- 

 fundibuliform, 4-lobed, 1 in. long, f in. diam., white ring round mouth ; Sta?nens 

 4, anthers on short filaments ; Fruit a capsule, 2-valved, lanceolate, tomentose, 

 i— I in. long. 



Leaves opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, glabrous and dark 

 green, stellate-rusty tomentose or nearly glabrous beneath, 5-7 ins. long, 

 petiole short. 



A deciduous shrub, or small tree, 10-12 ft. 



Native of Sikkim, there grows to 30 ft. Raised from seed by Messrs. \' eitch 



and Sons ; probably flowered for first time in Europe at Queenstown, Ireland, 



1892; first flowered at Kew, 1900. 



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