Caprifoliacee—-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. North India. 
2. A. floribinda.—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. rupéstris. — 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. unifldira.—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, SYMPHORICARPUS. 
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 ovpdopéw, to bear 
together, and xapzrés, fruit, in allusion to the clustered berries. 
1. S. racemédsus. 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. 
S. occidentalis ( Wolfberry ) has rather larger crowded 
flowers and smaller white fruit; and S. vulgaris (Coral-berry) 
has small dark red berries. 
5, LEYCESTERIA. 
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 
