326 CHARACTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF 



uninervi (exteriore ?) ovarii, monospermo, ovnio ovato, re- 

 liquis aliquoties majore, a margine inferiore fenestras 

 chordae pistillaris pendulo, vasculoso fascicule dorsali ! 

 378] Stylus filiforiuis, glaber, longitudine staminnm. Stigma 

 depresso - capitatum, indivisum, imberbe. Pericarpium 

 figura ovarii, eoque vix duplo majus, calycis limbo, pro- 

 portionatim aucto, coronatura, monospermum, lociilis 

 duobus abortientibus ad alterum latus pressis (fig. 4), in- 

 dehiscens, coriaceum, exsuccum. Semen (fig. 4 et 5) sub- 

 cylindraceum, cavitatem ovarii fere replens, prope apicem 

 insertum funiculo brevi. Integumentum duplex -. exterius 

 membranaceum, laxiusculum ; interius tenuissimum, albu- 

 mini arete adherens. Albumen (fig. 6) figura et magni- 

 tudine seminis, dense carnosum, album. Embryo (fig. 6 

 et 7) axilis, rectus, albus, albumine aliquoties (fere quad- 

 ruple) brevior : Cotyledones breves : Badicula supera. 



Obs. The genus Abelia is named in honour of its dis- 

 coverer, Clarke Abel, Esq., who accompanied the late 

 Embassy to China, as Chief Medical Ofiicer in the suite of 

 Lord Amherst. Nearly the whole of the extensive collec- 

 tions formed in China by this zealous naturalist were, un- 

 fortunately for science, lost in the wreck of the Alceste ; 

 tlie only part saved being a small selection of specimens of 

 plants which he had presented, while in China, to Sir George 

 Staunton, by whom they were most liberally returned to 

 him on his arrival in England. 



EURYA. Thunb. Jap. p. 11. 

 SrsT. Linn. Polygamia Dioecia. 



Char. Gen. Hermaph. Calyx 5-part. Corolla mono- 

 petala, 5-partita. Stamina 12 — 1.5. Ovarium superum, 

 3-loc. Stylus 1. Stigmata 2 — 3. 



Mas. Cal. Cor. et Stam. ut in Hermaph. Pistillum 0. 



