LindL (the “ Chamoo hills ”, where it was found by Mr. Fortune, 
being situated in China, not the East Indies as stated by 
Walpers), with the exception of Dr. Wallich’s Abelia triflora, 
which is from Kamoun in Northern India. The Mexican species 
was discovered by Galeotti in the Cordillera of Oaxaca and Vera 
Cruz (there also by Linden), on the peak of Orizaba ; elevations 
between 9—10,000 feet. 
Descr. Our Plant is between two and three feet high, 
shrubby, branched, erect, but of rather straggling growth, the 
younger branches pubescent. Leaves opposite, ovate, sometimes 
broadly so, small, obtuse, crenate, glabrous, minutely ciliated at 
the margin, much veined and reticulated, more so beneath, and 
there ot a paler colour. Flowers axillary, but from the extremity 
of the branches, large, handsome, pendent. Peduncles with two 
small bracteas, short, one-, two-, or three-flowered. Ovary 
inferior, almost fusiform, flattened on one side: a transverse 
section exhibits two small (abortive?) cells, and one large 
(fertile ?) one : this ovary is inserted in a very minute irregularly- 
toothed involucre. C«^a?-segments five, very large, linear-oblong, 
erecto-patent, foliaceous, veiny, ciliated, two generally more or 
less combined. Corolla two inches or more long, purple-red: 
the tube long, narrow at the base, gradually enlarging upwards, 
a little curved, hairy within; limb nearly regular, of five obtuse, 
rounded lobes. Stamens four, slightly didynamous. Filaments 
a little exserted, hairy, inserted above the base of the corolla. 
Anther oblong. Style slender, filiform, exserted a little beyond 
the stamens. Stigma dilated. 
lig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Inferior ovary cut through 
transversely;— magnifed. 
