[Prate 91.] 
THE THREE-FLOWERED ABELIA. 
(ABELIA TRIFLORA.) 
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A half-hardy Shrub, from NORTHERN Innia, belonging to the Order of CAPRIFOILS. 
Specific Character. 
THE THREE-FLOWERED ABELIA. Leaves ovate- | ABELIA TRIFLORA ; folis ovato-lanceolatis integris 
ceolate, entire, subsessile, ciliated. Flowers in threes ; subsessilibus ciliatis, floribus ternatis : lateralibus tri- 
the lateral with three bracts, Calyxes shaggy, five-parted, bracteatis, calycibus villosis 5-partitis laciniis linearibus 
with linear very narrow, acuminate, divisions as long as acuminatis angustissimis corollæ tubi longitudine. 
the tube of the corolla. 
Abelia triflora : R. Brown, in Wallich’s Plante Asiatice rariores, vol. i., p. 14, t. 15. 
FOR living specimens of this beautiful shrub we are indebted to Mr. Moore of Glasnevin, who sent 
them last June, with the following memorandum :— 
“ Abelia triflora is now nicely in flower here in the open border, where it has stood in front of 
one of our conservatories without protection, since it was planted four years aga. Major Madden 
sent the seeds here from Simlah, from which our plants were raised in 1847, and this is the first of 
them which has bloomed. I consider it an acquisition in the way of a hardy shrub. Our plant is 
about three feet high, and covered over with pretty pink blossoms.” 
Dr. Wallich states that it is found wild on the highest mountains of the province of Kamaon, 
towards the Himalaya, where his plant-collector, Robert Blinkworth, met with it in the month of 
May; the natives called it Kumki. He reported it to be a small tree, with delightfully fragrant 
lossoms, like those of Jasminum revolutum. 
VOL. III. 
