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Asia, Africa, North and South America. These species cannot he accu- 

 rately distinguished without a close obseryation of the flowers with magni- 

 fying glass. 



All the species sucker extensively and so should not be planted where 

 they will interfere with other useful plants. The slender climbing or trail- 

 ing branches sometimes grow to the length of 25 feet. 



[Twig cuttings ; suckers ; layers ; seeds.] 



Leucophyllum texanum. LEucopHTLLnM (490) is a loose-growing 

 straggling shrub (1 foot) with alternate simple small, under 1' inch, entire 



Fig. 496. — Japan Buddleia. 



Fig. 497. — Lindley's Buddleia. 



leaves covered below with silvery-white wool. It has axillary showy pur- 

 ple bell-shaped 5-lobed flowers, an inch across, with 4 included stamens, 

 spring and summer. The fruit is a 2-celled many-seeded pod. Hardy 

 only in the Gulf states but of great beauty and ought to be generally culti- 

 vated as soon as the needed treatment is understood. [Seeds.] 



T^coma. Tlie Trumpet Creepers are mainly climbing or twining in 

 their habits but two species in cultivation are upright shrubs. All the Teco- 

 mas have large trumpet-shaped flowers and the shrubby forms have these 

 flowers yellow and of great beauty, but unfortunately they are hardy only 



