BUDDLEIA 
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small and not showy. The plant forms a 
much-branched bush 6 to 8 feet high, of erect 
BUDDLEIA VARIA 
{Engraved for Flora" f I oin a plant m Veilch\ 
Coomhe Wood. ) 
Var. Magnifica. 
Nurs 
and spreading habit, with stems somewhat 
angular. Leaves very shortly stalked, 6 to 9 
inches long, broadly 
tapering, dark-green 
above and nearly 
smooth at maturity. 
Flowers clustered and 
arranged in slender 
tails of 6 to 1 2 inches, 
the single blooms be- 
ing small, lavender- 
coloured, and imbed- 
ded amongst white fluff. The plant flowered for the first 
time in August last, in Messrs. Veitch's Coombe Wood 
nursery, and seems likely to be hardy. 
B. paniculata. — A distinct plant differing from other 
kinds (save B. nived) in the downy white surface of its 
leaves and stems. It forms its flower-buds in the autumn 
and opens them in February and March in its own 
land, and with us in May ; to do this it has to start 
into growth so early as often to be cut by spring frosts. 
Still it is well worth growing for its fohage alone and 
is hardy around London as a shrub of 6 to 8 feet, with 
leaves coarsely toothed at the edges, and covered with 
a white woolly coating. The flowers are fragrant, bright 
lilac in colour, crowded into erect spikes. It is found 
wild from Afghanistan to Western China, where it is 
not uncommon in the warm river valleys between 
3,500 and 5,000 feet. The Chinese plant differs from 
the western form in having the leaves united at their 
base. 
B.pulchella. — A small twiggy shrub of neat growth 
from South Africa, and tender in this country though 
hkely to be useful under glass. Leaves green and vari- 
ously shaped, either lobed or entire. Flowers small and 
with a heavy smell, gathered into small terminal clusters, 
2 to 3 inches long, reddish in colour with an orange 
throat. The plant was sent to Kew from the Natal 
Botanic Gardens, Durban, and flowered there for the 
first time in October 1894. 
B. salicifo/ia. — The plant sometimes seen under this 
name is not a Buddleia but Chilianthus oleaceus. It is a 
native of South Africa and bears flat clusters of white 
flowers. 
B. variabilis. — This species and its forms supply the 
best and hardiest garden plants of the group, which for 
ease of culture and freedom of growth are among our 
best flowering shrubs. The plant is vigorous and 
much-branched, stems square, downy, and with a wing 
at each angle while young, attaining a length of 8 to 
12 feet in one season. Leaves shortly stalked, 3 to 12 
