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ABELIA floribunda. 
Florid Abela. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIACE=. (CAPRIFOILS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 766.) 
ABELIA, R. Br.—Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, lineari-oblongo, com- 
pressiusculo, hine uninervi inde guinguenervi, apice in collum subangustato, 
limbi superi quinquepartiti laciniis foliaceis, spathulato-oblongis, persisten- 
tibus. Corolla supera, infundibuliformis, limbi quinquefidi patentis laciniis 
ovatis obtusis, subzequalibus. Stamina 4, corollse 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. Æmbryo 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 
sex vel pluribus. —Endl. genera, no. 3334. 
A. floribunda ; fruticosa, erecta, foliis brevi-petiolatis ovatis obtusis reticu- 
latis glabris ciliatis, pedunculis subterminalibus axillaribus 1-3-floris 
bibracteolatis, involucro minimo 1-5-dentato, calycis laciniis lineari- 
oblongis foliaceis ciliatis, corollis nutantibus (magnis) longe tubulosis, 
tubo inferne constricto superne dilatato intus hirsuto, limbi laciniis 
rotundatis subsqualibus patentibus, filamentis hirsutis styloque ex- 
sertis.— Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 4316. 
A. floribunda, Decaisne in Van Houtte's Flor der Gewachshaus und Gärten, 
v. 2. t. 4. Walpers Repertorium Botanices Systematice, v. 6. p. 3. 
Vesalia floribunda, Mart. $ Galeotti Bulletin de l’ Academie de Bruxelles, xi. 
p. 31. 
'The discovery in Mexico of one, or perhaps three, species 
of Abelia, is a puzzling fact for botanical geographers, and 
among the last that could have been anticipated. It is, 
therefore, not to be wondered at that the first botanists who 
examined this species should have failed to remark its identity 
