CAPRIFOLIACEAE. — ABELIA 119 
Frutex gracilis ramulis fusco-purpureis, junioribus glabris v. inter- 
dum minute puberulis. Folia membranacea, ovata v. elliptico-ovata, 
rarius oblongo-ovata, acuminata, basi cuneata, 3-5.5 cm. longa et 
1.5-3 em. lata, basi apiceque exceptis serrulata serraturis parvis 
mucronulatis, supra laete viridia, plerumque praecipue ad marginem 
ciliatam versus sparse adpressa pilosa, subtus pallidiora, secus costam 
mediam et venas basin versus villosa, interdum ad costam venasque 
sparse pilosa, rarius fere glabra; petioli glabri, 2-4 mm. longi. Pe- 
duneuli uniflori, breves in apice ramulorum brevium plures, rarius 
solitarii; bracteolae ciliatae; ovaria subteretia, sparse pilosa; sepala 
oblongo-lanceolata v. oblongo-ovata, obtusa v. acutiuscula, glabra 
v. sparsissime ciliata; corolla albida v. pallide rosea, 2.5 cm. longa, 
campanulato-infundibuliformis e basi tubulosa fere tertiam partem 
corollae formante sensim ampliata, limbo subpatulo cirea 2 cm. 
diam., extus sparse pilosula glandulosaque, fauce villosa; stylus lim- 
bum medium attingens, stamina longiora paullo superans. Achaenia 
subteretia, costata, 7-8 mm. longa, sparse pilosa. 
Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1200 m., 
June 1907 (No. 2017, type); Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1500-2300 m., 
June 11 and October 1910 (No. 4422); without locality, May 1900 
(Veitch Exped. Nos. 267, 267°); Ichang, A. Henry (No. 3436); with- 
out locality, A. Henry (No. 1768). Western Szech'uan: Chin-ting- 
shan, thickets, alt. 1200 m., May 25, 1908 (No. 2018); Mupin, thick- 
ets, alt. 1200-1800, June 1908 and October 1910 (Nos. 2020, 4380); 
Mt. Omei, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5031); without locality, 
July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3720). 
Closely allied to A. uniflora R. Brown, which is easily distinguished by its sub- 
coriaceous glabrous leaves, the 1—3-flowered inflorescence at the end of elongated 
branchlets and the more campanulate corolla with a shorter and wider tube. Abelia 
Graebneriana is somewhat variable in foliage and also in the flowers; the most dis- 
tinet forms are represented by the following three numbers: No. 267 differs in its 
narrower glabrescent leaves usually only with one to three teeth on each side, the 
narrower ones being about 4 em. long and 1 cm. broad, in the longer sepals, the 
corolla, nearly 3 em. long with longer and slenderer tube, and in the lateral 
flowering branchlets being usually reduced to fascicles of leaves; No. 2020 has 
ovate, indistinctly crenulate-serrulate leaves, obtusely acuminate, and smaller 
flowers, scarcely exceeding 2 cm. in length; No. 4380 has much smaller leaves not 
exceeding 2.5 cm. and oval sepals, the flowers are wanting. 
To this species is probably related Linnaea serrata, var. Hegii (Graebner 
[p. sp.] in sched.) Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 722 (1910) 
from Shensi, G. Giraldi, and from Hupeh, Mts. of Fan-sien, C. Silvestri (No. 1825), 
chiefly characterized by ciliate sepals puberulous on the outside; it is possibly a 
distinct species. 
