358 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 
ABELIA. 
(Family Caprifoliaceae). 
Rather small and soft-wooded 
shrubs: typically deciduous in the 
North. Twigs round or some- 
what 4-sided, very slender, puber- 
ulent: pith small, excavated. 
Buds small, solitary, sessile or 
somewhat developing the first 
season, ovoid, with about 2 pairs 
of rather loose scales. Leaf-scars 
U-shaped, somewhat raised, with 
connecting cross-line: bundle- 
traces 3: stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character references:— 
Abelia rupestris. Schneider, f. 
196. A. serrata. Shirasawa, 281, 
pl. 12. 
As far north at least as Wash- 
ington, where it is used effect- 
ively at the foot of the steps west 
of the Capitol, Abelia is one of 
the most attractive of compact 
small-leaved shrubs, and flowers well into the autumn. The 
most comprehensive analysis of the species of this genus, as 
of other genera cultivable in cool-temperate climates, is 
given in Schneider’s Handbuch der Laubholzkunde, which, 
like his Dendrologische Winterstudien, is ete ia and skil- 
fully illustrated. 
1. Half-evergreen: leaves small, ovate. 2. 
Truly deciduous. A. chinensis. 
2. Leaves small (under 2.5 em.). A. floribunda. 
Leaves medium (3-4 cm.). (1). A. grandiflora. 
Leaves large for the genus (4-5 ecm.). A. triflora. 
