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prove hardier than is the case. The flowers 
shown Hfe-size in our engraving were from 
a tree in the collection of Mr Chambers at 
Haslemere. 
B. globosa. — The best known kind and one 
BUDDLEIA COLVILEI. 
{Engraved for Flora" from a photograph at Gray's Wood Hill, Haslemere.) 
of the most distinct of shrubs. It is hardy 
from the midlands southwards save in bleak 
situations, though it often suffers in severe 
winters. Of strong growth, it easily attains 
a height of 12 to 15 feet in the open, and 
rnore than this against a house-front such as 
that of our engraving, and in parts of the 
south-west where severe frost is unknown. 
The stems are angularand winged while young, 
becoming round later. Leaves shortly stalked, 
6 to 1 2 inches long, lance- 
shaped, dark-green and much 
wrinkled above, with the under 
sides and young growths cov- 
ered with a pale -grey woolly 
felt. The venation of the leaves 
is very beautiful. Flowers yel- 
low, arranged as small globular 
heads at the ends of the shoots, 
in a way that distinguishes this 
from all other kinds in cultiva- 
tion. It is a native of Chili and 
Peru. 
B. hemsleyana. — This plant is 
described by Koehne in Gar- 
tenjiora (1903, p. 169), from 
material received from St. Pet- 
ersburg. He classes it near B. 
variabilis^ but distinct from that 
kind in its smaller flowers, ab- 
sence of the orangecolourin the 
throat, darker green leaves, and 
more erect habit. The shrub 
is now in cultivation at Kew, 
and in the collection of Mr. 
Chambers at Haslemere, and 
both plants flowered during the 
past summer. In habit and 
foliage it comes nearer to B. 
albijiora than to variabilis., the 
details which distinguish it from 
the first-named being only such 
as to appeal to botanists. For 
my own part I regard it as a 
poor form of albijiora^ and the 
most weedy member of the fa- 
mily. It occurs in the Min 
Valley of Western China, grow- 
ing among mountain shrubs at 
elevations of 3,000 to 4,500 
feet. 
B. japonica. — This hardy Japanese kind was 
formerly grown in France as B. curvijlora, but 
when dealing with the Chinese Buddleias for 
the Index Floret Sinensis., Hemsley found that 
it was very different from the true B. curvi- 
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