Caprifoliacecz A belia. 221 



celled, many-ovuled. Fruit a coriaceous 1 -seeded berry. 

 Natives of Asia and Mexico, and rather tender. Named after 

 Dr. Abel, who visited China with Lord Amherst. 



1. A. triflora. A small branching shrub with nearly sessile 

 lanceolate entire ciliate small leaves and small pale yellow 

 flowers tinged with pink and arranged in threes at the 

 extremities of the branches. The calyx-lobes are long and 

 linear, clothed with long hairs, and persistent after the corollas 

 have fallen. Nprth India. 



2. A. floribunda. A handsome Mexican species. Leaves 

 glabrous, ovate, obtuse, crenate. Flowers rosy-purple, about 2 

 inches long, in axillary clusters. This requires protection in 

 ordinary winters. 



3. A. rupestris. A deciduous branching hairy shrub. 

 Leaves small, ovate, remotely serrate. Flowers small, pink, in 

 twos, on short peduncles at the ends of the branches. The 

 calyx-lobes are foliaceous and of a reddish tinge. A native of 

 China. 



4. A. uniflora, This is by far the handsomest species, 

 having much larger pink and white flowers. The calyx -lobes 

 are foliaceous, and reduced to the number of two. Also from 

 North China. 



4 SYMPHORICiBPUS. 



Slender branching deciduous shrubs with small red or white 

 flowers and white or pink berries about the size of a small 

 cherry. There are about half a dozen species, natives of 

 North America. The name is derived from <rv/jL<f>opsa), to bear 

 together, and tcapTros, fruit, in allusion to the clustered berries. 



1. 8. racemosus. Snowberry. This is a very common 

 bush in English gardens. It has small oval entire leaves and 

 racemes of small pink flowers, succeeded by the more con- 

 spicuous and familiar pure white berries, which are persistent 

 during a greater part of the Winter. 



5. occidentalis ( Wolf berry ) has rather larger crowded 

 flowers and smaller white fruit ; and 8. vulgaris (Coral-berry) 

 has small dark red berries. 



5. LEYCEST^RIA. 



A monotypic genus from Nepal. An erect deciduous shrub 

 with hollow stems, rather large ovate acuminate entire leaves 

 and small white or purplish flowers in pendulous bracteate 



