NOTES AND 0B8EEVATI0NS 



INDIAN PLANTS. 



Abelia. Brown apud Abel, in Itin. Chin. Append, ciu 



B. p. 376. 



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

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

 Ovarium 3-loculare ; loculis 2 polyspermis, abortientibus ! 

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

 cum, indehiscens, calycis limbo foliaceo aucto coronatum. 

 Brown M8S. 



Classis Linnseana, Didynamia Angiosperma. — Brown 

 loc. cit. 



Ordo naturalis, Caprifoliaceoe vera, Brown ; Caprifolia- 

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

 Brown. 



Habitus : Frutices. Polia opposita, petiolata, dentato- 

 crenata vel integerrima. Inflorescentia varia. — Brown. 



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



Ploribds corymbi 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 Chinensis, that Capri- 

 folium has to Xylosteum; the central flower present in 

 A. triflora and in Caprifolium being abstracted in Xylos- 

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

 uniflord) sent from China by Mr. John Reeves, and for a 



