with the Asiatic genus. It is certainly an Abelia, as M. De- 
caisne and Sir Wm. Hooker have determined, and the hand- 
somest yet known. 
Its introduction to our gardens was through the nursery 
of Mr. Booth, of Flottbeck, near Hamburgh ; he obtained it 
from Rathsack, a Dane, who was sent to Mexico by the 
Danish Government, and whose plant, purchased by Mr. 
Booth in 1842, was named, ** Shrub with red bell flowers ; 
Mirador.” Sir Wm. Hooker states that it was also found by 
Galeotti in the Cordillera of Oaxaca and Vera Cruz, and 
also by Linden on the Peak of Orizaba, at elevations of 
from 9 to 10,000 feet. It has now become comparatively 
common in our gardens, and has been figured in the Botanical 
Magazine. 
Our drawing was made in June last, from a specimen - 
furnished by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. Fig. 1. is a cross 
section of the ovary. ` 
A very pretty little pendulous shrub, which requires a 
treatment intermediate between the stove and greenhouse ; 
that is to say, during the growing season it requires to be 
treated like a stove plant and kept rather moist, but after- 
wards, when the flowers are over, it should be transferred to 
the greenhouse. It grows freely in a mixture of sandy loam, 
peat and leaf-mould, strikes freely from cuttings, and flowers 
during great part of summer. 
