CAPRIFOLIACEAE. — ABELIA 119 



Frutex gracilis ramiilis fusco-purpureis, junioribus glabris v. inter- 

 dum minute puberulis. Folia membranacea, ovata v. elliptico-ovata, 

 rarius oblongo-ovata, acuminata, basi cuneata, 3-5.5 cm. longa et 

 1.5-3 cm. lata, basi apiceque exceptis serrulata serraturis parvis 

 mucronulatis, supra laete viridia, plerumque praecipue ad marginem 

 ciliatam versus sparse adpressa pilosa, subtus pallidiora, secus costam 

 mediam et venas basin versus villosa, interdum ad costam venasque 

 sparse pilosa, rarius fere glabra; petioli glabri, 2-4 mm. longi. Pe- 

 dunculi uniflori, breves in apice ramulorum brevium plures, rarius 

 solitarii; bracteolae ciliatae; ovaria subteretia, sparse pilosa; sepala 

 oblongo-lanceolata v. oblongo-ovata, obtusa v. acutiuscula, glabra 

 V. sparsissime ciliata; corolla albida v. pallide rosea, 2.5 cm. longa, 

 campanulato-infundibuliformis e basi tubulosa fere tertiam partem 

 corollae formante sensim ampliata, limbo subpatulo circa 2 cm. 

 diam., extus sparse pilosula glandulosaque, fauce villosa; stylus lim- 

 bum medium attingens, stamina longiora paullo superans. Achaenia 

 subteretia, costata, 7-8 mm. longa, sparse pilosa. 



Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1200 m., 

 June 1907 (No. 2017, type); Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1500-2300 m., 

 June 11 and October 1910 (No. 4422); without locality, May 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 267, 267"^); Ichang, A. Henry (No. 3436); with- 

 out locality, A. Henry (No. 1768). Western Szech'uan: Chin-ting- 

 shan, thickets, alt. 1200 m.. May 25, 1908 (No. 2018); Mupin, thick- 

 ets, alt. 1200-1800, June 1908 and October 1910 (Nos. 2020, 4380); 

 Mt. Omei, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5031); without locality, 

 July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3720). 



Closely allied to A. uniflora R. Brown, which is easily distinguished by its sub- 

 coriaceous glabrous leaves, the 1-3-flowered inflorescence at the end of elongated 

 branchlets and the more campanulate corolla with a shorter and wider tube. Abelia 

 Graebneriana is somewhat variable in foliage and also in the flowers; the most dis- 

 tinct forms are represented by the following three numbers: No. 267 differs in its 

 narrower glabrescent leaves usually only with one to three teeth on each side, the 

 narrower ones being about 4 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, in the longer sepals, the 

 larger corolla, nearly 3 cm. long with longer and slenderer tube, and in the lateral 

 flowering branchlets being usually reduced to fascicles of leaves; No. 2020 has 

 ovate, indistinctly crenulate-serrulate leaves, obtusely acuminate, and smaller 

 flowers, scarcely exceeding 2 cm. in length; No. 43S0 has much smaller leaves not 

 exceeding 2.5 cm. and oval sepals, the flowers are wanting. 



To this species is probably related Linnaea serrata, var. Hegii (Graebner 

 [p. sp.] in sched.) Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 722 (1910) 

 from Shensi, G. Giraldi, and from Hupeh, Mts. of Fan-sien, C. Silveslri (No. 1825), 

 chiefly characterized by ciliate sepals puberulous on the outside; it is possibly a 

 distinct species. 



