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CAPRIFOLIACEM 



Exogens, with the flowers having a superior calyx, four or 

 five-cleft, usually with two or more bracts at the base. Corolla 

 superior, with one petal or many, rotate or tubular, regular or 

 irregular. Stamens equal in number to the lobes of the corolla 

 and alternate with them. Leaves opposite. — Shrubs or herba- 

 ceous plants ; natives of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, 

 and America ; properties fragrant and sudorific. 



ABELIA, 



Gen. Char. (Didynamia Angiospermia.) Calyx-tube oblong, 

 having from two to five foliaceous divisions ; corolla tubular and 

 five -lob ed ; stamens four ; stigma capitate. 



A.florihunda is a beautiful greenhouse plant of a shrubby 

 nature, bearing most lovely pendent flowers, with the corolla, 

 two or more inches long, of a purple-red colour, and the 

 calyx divisions leafy, very large, veined, and ciliated; it 

 flowers in the spring, and continues long in great beauty. 

 A. uniflora, from the north of China, is a very ornamental 

 shrub and promises to be hardy in time, but at present it is 

 safer as a greenhouse plant; the flower is handsome, the 

 tube narrow, dilated at the base into an obtuse spur, the 

 corolla white tinged with pink, the limb divided into five, 



