NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



ON 



INDIAN PLANTS. 



Abelia. Brown apud Abel, in Itin. Chin. Append, ci. u 



B. p. 376. 



Calyx foliacens 5- vel 2-partitus. Corolla subinfun- 

 dibuliformis, 5-loba. Stamina 4, didyma vel subsequalia. 

 Ovarium 3-loculare ; loculis 2 polyspermis, abortientibus ! 

 tertio 1-spermo, fertili. Pericarpium 1-spermum, exsuc- 

 cum, indehiscens, calycis limbo foliaceo aucto coronatum. 

 Brown MSS. 



Classis Linnaeana, Bidynamia Anyiosperma. — Broivu 

 loc. cit. 



Or do naturalis, Caprifoliacece vera, Brown ; Caprifolia- 

 cearum sectio 1. Juss. Gen. p. 211, Linncece prox. — 

 Brown. 



Habitus : Frutices. Folia opposita, petiolata, dentato- 

 crenata vel integerrima. Inelorescentia varia. — Brown. 



Abelia triflora. (Brown MSS.) Tab. 15. 



Floribus coryrabi congesti ternatis : lateralibus 3-brac» 

 teatis ; calycibus 5-partitis ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, acumi- 

 natis integerrimis. — Brown. 



This new species of Abelia has in its inflorescence [is 

 nearly the same relation to Abelia Ckinensis, that Capri- 

 folium has to Xylosteum ; the central flower present in 

 A. triflora and in Caprifolium being abstracted in Xylos- 

 teum and in A. Ckinensis. In a third species {Abelia 

 uniflora) sent from China by Mr. John Beeves, and for a 



