324 CHARACTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF 



ABELIA. 1 



Syst. Linn. Didynamia Angiospermia, post Linnaeam. 



Char. Gen. Pericarpium inferum, (abortione) mono- 

 spermum, indehiscens, calyce foliaceo coronatum. Invol lu- 

 crum 2-multiflorum, 6-polyphyllum. 



Ord. Nat. CaprifoliacetE, Sect. I. Juss. Gen. 211. 

 (Lonicereae Br.) inter Linnseam et Sympboricarpum. 



Char. Gen. Calyx foliaceus. Corolla subinfundibuli- 

 formis, 5-loba. Stamina 4, didynama. Ovarium 3-locu- 

 lare : loculis duobus polyspermis, abortientibus ! tertio 

 monospermo fertili. Pericarpium monospermmn, inde- 

 hiscens, calycis limbo foliaceo coronatum. Involucrum 

 bi-multiflorum, foliolis sex pluribusve. 



Frutices decumbentes vel debiles, glabri. Folia opposita, 

 petiolata, dentato-crenata. Peclunculi modo axillares, tricho- 

 tomi vel trifidi ; modo terminates indivisi. 



Patria China et Japonia. 



Obs. LinncecB proximum genus, quacnm convenit sta- 

 minibus clidynamis et structura ovarii ! diversum fructu 

 hinc uninervi inde quinquenervi, coronato calycis limbo 

 foliaceo persistente, necnon inflorescentia et habitu. 

 377] St/mphoricarpus habitu paulo magis accedens Abelice, 

 ab eadem facile distingnitur, inflorescentia, floribus pen- 

 tandris, ovarii quadrilocularis loculis duobus monospermis, 

 fertilibus ; duobus reliquis polyspermis sterilibus ! 



Triosteum fructu calyce foliaceo coronato Abelice simile, 

 abunde diversum est ovarii trilocularis loculis omnibus 

 monospermis fertilibus, floribus pentandris et inflorescentia. 



1 This account of the genus Abelia is extracted from a manuscript disserta- 

 tion on the natural order to which it belongs. 



