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FLORA AND SYLVA 
flora of Hooker and Arnott, and therefore re- 
named it. The true B. curvflora — of which 
the only specimen is in the Kew herbarium 
— was collected in the Loo-Choo Islands by 
Captain Beechey in 1 8 27, and has flower-clus- 
ters very like some of the forms of B. vari- 
abilis. It differs also in other important points 
from the plant once confused with it. 
B. japofiica is a sparingly branched shrub 
of 4 to 6 feet, with square and much winged 
stems, green while young, becoming brown 
with age. Leaves very shortly stalked, 4 to 
8 inches long, smooth and dark green above, 
paler, much veined, and slightly hairy on the 
under side. The flowers are clustered in a 
terminal spike 6 to 8 inches long, which is 
usually attended by two smaller side-spikes. 
The flowers are about \ inch long in the tube, 
with narrow pale-lilac lobes, and hang on until 
finally split by the seed-vessels, which set with 
great regularity. The presence of these pendu- 
lous tails of heavy fruits in September, dis- 
tinguishes this species from all others in culti- 
vation. Seedlings vary much and in France 
several well-marked varieties have been raised: 
carnea^ differing from the parent in the colour 
of its flowers, which are flesh pink ; insignis, 
a compact form of erect growth, in appear- 
ance quite unlike the parent and well worth 
growing for its flowers of brighter colour ; 
and salicifolia, with narrower leaves and a 
more slender much-branched flower-spike. 
B. intermedia. — Under this name Carriere 
gives a coloured figure in the Rev. Hort.^ 
1 873, p. 1 50, of a plant which appeared among 
a batch of B. japonic a seedlings in 1871. Its 
features are discussed and the conclusion 
reached that it is a chance hybrid between 
japonica and lindleyana. As shown, the flow- 
ers and their arrangement suggest lindleyana^ 
whilst the foliage favours japonica. I do not 
know if it ever reached this country, but such 
plants as I have seen cultivated as intermedia 
are japonica pure and simple. In view of the 
fact that, apart from Carriere's supposed cross 
no hybrid Buddleia has been raised, and that 
seedling forms of japonica differ so widely, 
one is I think justified in concluding that the 
"hybrid" is but a seedling form of B. japonica. 
B. lindleyana. — A weak-growing species, 
arched and spreading, with angular much- 
winged branches, somewhat hairy while young 
and seldom of great height save in Devon- 
shire, where it grows 12 to 15 feet against 
sheltered walls. Leaves short, dark-green above 
and paler below ; margins mostly entire ; a 
variety collected at Ichang by Henry has 
deeply toothed edges. The flowers are in clus- 
ters of three arranged in a pendent raceme, 
varying from 2 inches to nearly a foot in 
length. They are small, about |- inch long, 
violet-purple in colour, with a curved tube 
covered on the outside with fine grey hairs. 
A native of the warmer parts of China, it is 
common in the Yangtsze Valley on banks and 
cliffs in dry sunny places, extending thence 
to the far west but never ascending above 
2,500 feet. It is tender in this country, and 
while pretty and distinct it is rarely met with. 
In the more favoured gardens of the south and 
west it will live out of doors, but is happiest 
on a warm wall even in these. The flowers 
are a little disappointing, losing their colour 
quickly and, in a long raceme, withering 
away before the upper buds have time to ex- 
pand. 
B. madagascariensis . — Th i soldplantissome- 
times met with in greenhouses but it needs 
much room and is seldom very satisfactory, 
though the large clusters shown at Westmin- 
ster early in the present year prove that it 
can be flowered very finely in this country. 
Leaves clothed with white woolly hairs, much 
wrinkled above, cottony white or inclined to 
be rusty below. The flowers are orange- 
coloured and fragrant, in compound racemes, 
of 6 to 10 inches, the corolla funnel-shaped 
and covered with cottony hairs on the out- 
side. A native of Madagascar, it is also widely 
spread throughout the adjacent islands, and 
even occurs in St. Helena. Though a little 
tender even in the South of France, it is often 
used to trail downwards over the face of a 
sunny wall, and its effect when in full flower 
is charming. 
B. nivea. — A new and distinct kind found 
by the writer in shrubberies and wooded places 
of western China, at elevations of 7,000 to 
8,000 feet. The stems and underside of the 
leaves are enveloped by a dense coating of 
fluffy white hairs, and to this the plant owes 
its beauty and its name, the flowers being 
