a long-leaved shrub, from N. India, with pale pink 
flowers, and hairy calyxes. 
3. A. uniflora (R. Brown in the same place, with neither 
figure nor description); a Chinese species, said to have 
been sent home by Mr. Reeves. If so, it is an upright 
branched smooth-leaved bush, with ovate coriaceous 
hairless leaves, which are sometimes entire, but fre- 
quently serrated, and opposite either in pairs or threes. 
Its flowers are however by no means solitary in vigorous 
specimens ; they are, on the contrary, in threes as in 
other species. A specific character may be framed for 
it in the following terms. A. uniflora ; foliis ovatis 
coriaceis oppositis ternatisgue integerrimis serratisgue 
glabris, pedunculis 1-3-floris, sepalis binis obtusis glabris 
corollá tomentosá brevioribus, staminibus paulò exsertis. 
4. A. serrata (Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Japon. 1. t. 34); a 
Japan shrub, very near the last, but with larger and 
thinner leaves, short stamens, and a nearly smooth corolla. 
5. A. spatulata (Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Japon. 1. t. 34. 
fig. II.); from Japan, with quite entire leaves, and a 
5-leaved calyx. 
6. A. biflora (Turczaninow in Bulletin Soc. Imp. Mosq. 
1837. p. 152); north of China, with lanceolate serrated 
leaves, and a 4-leaved calyx. 
7. A. rupestris. Now described. 
If these shrubs are not all hardy, they must be nearly so, 
for they grow in countries which sustain a considerable 
degree of frost. Siebold found his Abelia serrata living 
with Azaleas, Andromedas, Vacciniums and Hydrangeas, in 
dry places, on the mountains of Japan, at an elevation of 
1800 feet above the sea; and their natural relation to 
Honeysuckles, Viburnums and other Caprifoils, gives still 
greater hope that they will bear, our climate as well as 
Leycesteria, at least. 
We believe that another plant of this genus is what is 
called in the Gardens Vassalia floribunda, perhaps a corrup- 
tion of Vanhallia ; but we are too little acquainted with it to 
speak with certainty. 
