ABELIA CHINENSIS. 
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stamifluni. Stigma depresso-capitatum, indivisum, imberbe. Pericardium figura 
ovarii, eoque vix duplo majus, calycis limbo, proportionating aucto, coronatum, 
monospermum, loculis duobus abortientibus ad alterum latus pressis (fig. 4.), 
indehiscens, coriaceum, exsuccum. Semen (fig. 4. et 5.) subcylindraceum, 
cavitatem ovarii fere replens, prope apicem insertum funiculo brevi. Integu- 
mentum duplex : exterius membranaceum, laxiusculum ; interius tenuissimum, 
albumine arete adherens. Albumen (fig. 6.) figura et magnitudine seminis, 
dense carnosum, album. Embryo (fig. 6. et 7-) axilis, rectus, albus, albumine 
aliquoties (fere quadruplo) brevior : Cotyledones breves : Radicula supera. 
Obs. The genus Abelia is named in honour of its dicoverer, Clarke 
Abel, Esq. who accompanied the late Embassy to China, as Chief Medical 
Officer in the suite of Lord Amherst. Nearly the whole of the extensive 
collections formed in China by this zealous naturalist were, unfortunately for 
science, lost in the wreck of the Alceste ; the 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. 
Syst. Linn. Polygamia Dicecia. 
Char. Gen. Hermaph. Calyx 5- part. Corolla monopetala, 5-partita. Stamina 
12 — 15. Ovarium super urn, 3-loc. Stylus 1. Stigmata 2 — 3. 
Mas. Cal. Cor. et Stam. ut in Hermaph. Pistillum o. 
Fem. Cal. Cor. Hermaph. Stamina o. Ovar. 3-loc. Stylus 1. Stigmata 3, 
revoluta. Bacca polysperma. 
Ord. Nat. Ternstromace/e. Mirbel, Nouv. Bullet. 3. p. 381. Be Candolle, Prop. Med. 
des Plantes, p. 203. 
Char. Gen. Flores Polygami-Dioici. Calyx 5-part. Petala 5, unguibus 
connatis. Stamina 12 — 15, simplici serie. Ovarium 3-loc. polyspermum. 
Stylus 1. Stigmata 3. Bacca trilocularis, polysperma. Semina reticulata. 
Obs. Proximum genus Fresierce , distinctum floribus polygamis et petalis 
basi connatis. 
