Tab. 4316 . 
ABELIA FLORIBUNDA. 
Copious-Jtowering Ahelia. 
Nat. Ord. Caprifoliace^.—^Didynamia Angiospeemia. 
Gm. Char. Calycis tubus oblongus, limbus 2-vel 5-partitas foliaceus, laciniis 
oblongis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis 5-loba, lobis ovatis subaequalibus. 
Stamina 4 didynama vel subsequalia. Stigma capitatum. Ovarium S-loculare, 
loculis 2 polyspermis abortieiitibus, tertio monospermo fertili. Pericarpium 
1-spermum iiidebiscens calycis limbo foliaceo aucto coronatum.—Frutices de- 
cumbentes v. debiles glabri. Folia petiolata dentato-crenata. Pedunculi modo 
tenninales indivisi. luvolucrum bi-multijlorwm, foliolis sex pluribusve. PC. 
Abelia jioribmula ; fruticosa erecta, foliis brevi-petiolatis ovatis obtusis reticu- 
latis glabris ciliatis, pedunculis subterminabbus axillaribus 1-3-floris bi- 
bracteolatis, involucro minimo 1-5-dentato, calycis laciniis lineari-oblongis 
foliaceis ciliatis, corollis nutantibus (magnis) longe tubulosis, tubo inferne 
constricto superne dilatato intus liirsuto, limbi laciniis rotundatis subsequa- 
libus patentibus, filamentis hirsutis styloque exsertis. 
Ab ELIA fioribuuda. “ Pecaisne, MS. in Van Houtte, FI. der Gewdchshdus. und 
Garten, v. 2. t, 4.” TValpers, Mepert. Pot. Sgst. v. 6. p. 3. 
Vesalea floribunda and Vesalea hirta. Mart, et Galeot. Bullet, de VAcad. 
Brux. xi. No. 3. p. 3l. 
From the Royal Gardens of Kew, to which it was presented 
by M. Van Houtte. It is a Greenhouse plant, and bears its 
lovely flowers during the spring months, continuing a long time 
in great beauty. The species has attracted much attention, and 
has been exhibited at the Horticultural shows with the generic 
name variously w^ritten, and sometimes corrupted into Hussclia. 
Martens and Galeotti assure us, in the Bulletin above quoted, 
that it is cultivated in the Gardens of Belgium under the name 
of Fuchsies sp. Mexic. Fesalea, however, is the name originally 
given to it by Martens and Galeotti, in compliment to a distin¬ 
guished anatomist, Vesale (“ in honorem celeberrimi Belgici 
Anatomici Vesalei). In constituting this new genus of Capri- 
foliacecE, they notice, indeed, its aflinity \si\h Aheha of Brown, 
and Decaisne is quite correct in removing it to Ahelia itself. 
All the other Abelias are Chinese or Japanese, even A. rupestris, 
august 1st, 1847. ^ ^ 
