ADDISONIA ; 17 
(Plate 49) 
ABELIA GRANDIFLORA 
Hybrid Abelia 
Of Hybrid Origin 
Family CAPRIFOLIACRAE HONEYSUCKLE Family 
Abelia rupestris grandiflora Rovelli; André, Rev. Hort. 1886: 488. 1886. 
Abelia rupestris Hort.; Spaeth, Gartenflora 41: 113. 1892. Not Abelia rupestris 
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indl. 1846. 
Abelia grandiflora Rehder, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1: 1. 1900. 
A half-evergreen shrub up to four or five feet tall, with spreading 
recurved stems, the puberulent branches of the year with ruby 
bark, flat, widely divergent from the stem, and with the handsome 
foliage dark green, lustrous, turning a beautiful bronze in the fall 
and winter. The opposite leaves, on short stalks, are ovate to 
elliptic, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base and acute at the 
paler with the nerves usually hairy, and the margin furnished with a 
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few rather irregular teeth which are usually gland-tipped. _ The 
attached to its base. The style, which has a capitate stigma, is 
shorter than the stamens. 
The graceful habit, handsome foliage, and daintily colored 
flowers make this one of the most desirable decorative shrubs. Its 
foliage, at first of a rather bright green, soon becomes darker, and 
finally, when the cold of fall arrives, turns to a beautiful bronzy 
hue which persists in this latitude as long as the leaves, usually well 
into the winter. When in flower, and it flowers continuously from 
June to November, it is one of the handsomest of shrubs, the old 
rose of the calyx and the flush on the corollas making a striking 
combination with the rich green of the shining leaves. In this 
latitude it is almost evergreen, and further south would perhaps 
prove to be one of the best of evergreen shrubs. It is essentially 
