for our plate has been obtained, blossomed there in June 
1913. The genus is closely allied to Abelia, R. Br., but 
differs in having paired and usually united flowers, so 
that one receptacle seems to arise from the base of the 
other. Specimens of K. amabilis which have not yet 
flowered thrive well in loamy soil in the Kew collection, 
and are about four feet in height. The species appears 
to be quite hardy, and is found easy to propagate from 
cuttings made of late summer wood. 
Dxscription.—Shrub, freely branching ; twigs of the 
first season softly hirsute, glabrous in their second season ; 
bark brown. Leaves ovate, base rounded, apex acute or 
acuminate, margin toothed or nearly entire, 14-1} in. 
long, 3-1} in. wide, sparingly hairy above, more densely 
hairy beneath, especially on the nerves and the margin; 
nerves usually 3-5 on each side the midrib, slender and 
curving upwards; petiole very short. Flowers paired; 
arranged in a corymbiform thyrse composed of 3-9 pairs 
at the apex of short leafy twigs; peduncle filiform, 
pilose, } in. long; bracts linear or subulate, 1 in. long. 
feceptacles of each pair of flowers opposite, or one of a 
pair situated somewhat above and in appearance lateral 
to the other, densely harshly pilose, contracted above 
into a short almost solid stipes, 1-1 in. long. Sepals 
linear, acute, often flexuous, } in. long, hairy. Corolla 
obliquely tubular-campanulate, white flushed’ with rose- 
pink, puberulous outside, about } in. long, tube some- 
what gibbous at the base in front, the anterior lobe of 
the limb rather larger than the lateral ones. Stamens 4, 
the anterior pair adnate one-third up the tube, the 
posterior at the middle of the tube ; anthers wide-oblong. 
Style. filiform, scaberulous, 1 in. long ; stigma minutely 
3-lobed. Ovary 3-celled; cells unequal, one usually 
empty; ovules 2-seriate.- Fruits connate in pairs, nutlike, 
1-seeded, tipped by the calyx, stoutly ribbed, the ribs 
often produced above as a horn, densely strigose, unequal, 
one smaller or occasionally one quite suppressed. Seed 
oblong, about 5}, in. long. 
. Fig. 1, a pair of flowers; 2, corolla, laid open, showing staminal insertion ; 
, transverse section of ovary; 4, style and stigma :—all enlarged. 
