BUDDLEIA 



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slender willow-like leaves and nearly white catalpa-like flowers. The 

 capsules are about 6 inches long. The leaves are whorled in 3's, opposite 

 and alternate on the same twigs ; near the tips where the flowers occur 

 they are generally alternate. Hardy in the Gulf states and begins to 

 bloom when only a few feet high, though it sometimes reaches the height 



of 30 feet. 



[Seeds ; twig cuttings.] 



Fig. 500. — Colvill'sBuddleia. 



Fig. 501. — Globe-tlowered Buddleia. 



Chionanthus. Fringe-tree or Old Man's Beard (494) — Chionan- 

 tl^us virginica — is a handsome shrub or small tree with large opposite (occa- 

 sionally alternate) entire-edged deciduous leaves and fringe-like drooping 

 white flowers in May and June. The fruit is a dark blue oval drupe 

 I inch long, ripe in the fall. There is a Chinese species with broader and 

 less fringe-like petals to the flowers, which are not so pendent on the 

 branches, Chinese Fringe-tree (405) — Chionanthus retusa. 



[Seeds (in the fall); layers ; twig cuttings (under glass).] 



Buddleia. The Buddleias are a group, 70 species, of beautiful 

 shrubs (and trees, in the tropics) of rather warm climates. The leaves 

 are opposite, simple, deciduous (or evergreen in the tropics), entire or 

 notched. The flowers are tubular or bell-shaped with a 4-lobed border 

 and 4 stamens included in the tube. The fruit is a 2-celled many-seeded 

 capsule. The stems are more or less 4-sided. Only a few of the hardier 



