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ABELIA rupestris. 
Rock Abelia. 
BE SKN. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CaPRIFOLIACEX. (CAPRIFOILS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 766. 
ined.) 
ABELIA, R. Br. — Calyz tubo cum ovario connato, lineari-oblongo, com- 
pressiusculo, hinc uninervi inde quinquenervi, apice in collum subangustato, 
limbi superi quinquepartiti lacintis foliaceis, spathulato-oblongis, persisten- 
tibus. Corolla supera, infundibuliformis, limbi guinguefidi patentis laciniis 
ovatis obtusis, subeequalibus. Stamina 4, coroll tubo inserta, subdidynama, 
inclusa v. breviter exserta. Ovarium inferum, triloculare, loculis duobus 
pluriovulatis, abortientibus, tertio uniovulato fertili. Ovula angulo centrali 
loculorum inserta, sterilium uniseriata, inferiora pendula, supremum adscen- 
dens, loculi fertilis pendulum, anatropum. Stylus subexsertus: Stigma 
depresso-capitatum, indivisum. Bacca coriacea, exsucca, calycis limbo coro- 
nata, trilocularis, loculis duobus sterilibus minoribus, tertio fertili mono- 
spermo. Semen inversum, subcylindricum. Embryo in axi albuminis car- 
nosi brevis, orthotropus; cotyledonibus obtusis, radicula umbilico proxima, 
supera.— Frutices chinenses e£ indici, decumbentes v. erecti, debiles, glabri ; 
foliis oppositis, petiolatis, dentato-crenatis, pedunculis modo axillaribus tricho- 
tomis v. trifidis, modo terminalibus indivisis, involucro uni-bi-multifloro, foliolis 
sez vel pluribus. Endl. genera, no. 3334. 
A. rupestris ; ramis pubescentibus, foliis ovatis distanter serratis glabris sub- 
tus secus costam villosis, pedunculis bifloris, involucro nullo, sepalis 
5 obovatis ciliatis, corollà pubescente 5-fidà, staminibus exsertis. Lindl. 
in Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. 1. p. 63. 
This new shrub is thus described in the Journal of the 
Horticultural Society— 
“A small spreading bush, with deciduous, bright green 
foliage. The branches are very slender, covered with fine 
down, and deep reddish brown, when fully exposed to the 
sun. The leaves are opposite, ovate, distantly serrated, on 
very short stalks, guite smooth except at the midrib on the 
underside, where they afe closely covered with short hairs. 
The flowers are pure white, something like those from the 
honeysuckle, and come in pairs from the axils of leaves be- 
longing to the short lateral branches. . At the base of the 
