BUDDLEYA LINDLEYANA. 
(Dr. Lindley’s Buddleya.) 
Class. 
Order. 
TETRANDRIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIACEiE . 
Generic Character. — Calyx campanulate, five- 
toothed. Corolla tubular ; limb four to five-cleft, 
equal, spreading. Stamens four to five, nearly equal, 
inclosed ; anthers composed of two parallel, distinct 
cells. Stigma clavate, two-lobed. Capsule crusta- 
ceous ; dissepiment constituted from the inflexed edges 
of the valves, inserted in the thick spongy placenta. 
Seeds angular, scobiform ; testa loose, membranous. 
Albumen fleshy. Embryo almost the length of the 
seeds ; cotyledons oblong, compressed ; radicle very 
short.— Row’s Gard. and Bot. 
Specific Character.— Plant a tall, evergreen shrub. 
Branches tetragonal, very shrubby and glabrous. 
Leaves oval, acuminate, occasionally somewhat ser- 
rated, shorter than the petioles. Inflorescence to- 
mentose, forming a terminal raceme or verticillate 
spike. Calyx dentated, with rather short triangular 
indentations. Corolla elongate, ventricose in the 
middle beneath, with obtuse lobe6 Bindley. 
It is no small tribute to the worth of this plant, to remark that it is a fit com- 
panion for the three fine associates with which it is introduced ; and its merits 
justify any distinction arising from the association British gardens have received 
our subject through the Horticultural Society, by whose collector, Mr. Fortune, 
it was discovered shortly after his arrival at Chusan. He gave it the name it 
bears, and despatched seeds of it from China, in 1843. These were raised in the 
garden of the Society, producing plants that flowered in their conservatory the 
following year. 
Buddleya Lindleyana may be regarded as hardy, although it is not so, correctly 
speaking. It will endure the rigour of our severer winters as an herbaceous plant, 
but cannot exist as a shrub, without protection. With this plant it has happened, 
as it often does with new ones, that it has been too indulgently treated. Many 
have planted it in a good situation, and in good soil, in the open air, where, under 
such favour, its growth has been rapid, the specimen becoming a tall graceful shrub, 
not flowering till late in autumn, and, therefore, liable to be destroyed by frost. 
Plants grown old, or in barren soil, blossom earlier, and continue increasing in 
beauty, up to the period they are overtaken by weather that prevents the further 
development of blossoms. 
Our Buddleya is not very well adapted for forming an isolated specimen, in con- 
sequence of being very free and open growing ; neither is it at all suitable for 
