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Tas. 4694. 
ABELIA unNIFLORA. 
Large-flowered Abelia. 
Nat. Ord. CAPRIFOLIACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNiA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, lineari-oblongo, compressiusculo, 
hine uninervi inde quinquenervi, apice in collum subangustato, limbi superi quin- 
quepartiti laciniis foliaceis, spathulato-oblongis, persistentibus. Corol/a supera 
infundibuliformis, limbi quinquefidi patentis laciniis ovatis obtusis subeequalibus. 
Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, subdidynama, inclusa v. breviter exserta. Ovarium 
inferum, triloculare, loculis duobus pluriovulatis abortientibus, tertio uniovulato 
fertili. Ovula anguli centrali loculorum inserta, sterilium uniseriata, inferiora 
pendula, supremum adscendens, loculi fertilis pendulum, anatropum. Stylus sul 
exsertus. Stigma depresso-capitatum, indivisum. Bacca coriacea, exsucca, Ca- — 
lycis limbo coronata, trilocularis, loculis duobus sterilibus minoribus, tertio fertili 
monospermo. Semen inversum, subeylindricum. Embryo in axi albuminis car- 
nosi brevis, orthotropus, cotyledonibus obtusis, radicula umbilico proxima, su- 
pera.—Frutices Chinenses et Indici, decumbentes v. erecti, debiles, glabri; foliis 
oppositis, petiolatis, dentato-crenatis, pedunculis modo axillaribus trichotomis v. tri- 
fidis, modo terminalibus indivisis, involucro uni-bi-multifloro, foliolis sex v. pluri- 
bus. Endl. 
ABELIA uniflora; foliis oppositis ternisque ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subcoria- 
ceis acute serratis, pedunculis 1—3-floris, bracteolis ad basin ovaril tribus, 
sepalis 2-4 oblongo-subspathulatis corollis duplo brevioribus, staminibus 
vix exsertis. 
Apetia uniflora. Br. in Wallich, Plant. Asiat. Rar. v. 1. under Tab. 15. De 
Cand. Prod. v. 1. p. 339. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, under Tab. 8; and Pact. 
Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 145, with woodcut. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 6. p. 3. 
ABELIA serrata. Siebold et Zuccar. Fl. Japon. v. 1. t. 31. 
Introduced by Mr. Fortune, from the north of China, to the 
nursery of Messrs. Standish and Noble, where it has survived 
the winter, in the open air, without any protection, and promises 
to be not only a hardy but a ornamental shrub. With us, ina 
cool greenhouse, it has flowered in June. It is considered by 
Dr. Lindley to be the Adelia uniflora of Mr. Brown, in Wallich’s 
‘ Plante Asiaticee Rariores’ (without character), on the ground of 
its being a plant of Mr. Reeves’, known to be the same as the 
JANUARY Ist, 1853. 
