NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
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��Abelia. Brown apud Abel, in Itin. Chin. Append, ci. u
B. p. 376.
Calyx foliacens 5- vel 2-partitus. Corolla subinfun- dibuliformis, 5-loba. Stamina 4, didyma vel subsequalia. Ovarium 3-loculare ; loculis 2 polyspermis, abortientibus ! tertio 1-spermo, fertili. Pericarpium 1-spermum, exsuc- cum, indehiscens, calycis limbo foliaceo aucto coronatum. Brown MSS.
Classis Linnaeana, Bidynamia Anyiosperma. — Broivu loc. cit.
Or do naturalis, Caprifoliacece vera, Brown ; Caprifolia- cearum sectio 1. Juss. Gen. p. 211, Linncece prox. — Brown.
Habitus : Frutices. Folia opposita, petiolata, dentato- crenata vel integerrima. Inelorescentia varia. — Brown.
Abelia triflora. (Brown MSS.) Tab. 15.
Floribus coryrabi 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 Ckinensis, that Capri- folium has to Xylosteum ; the central flower present in A. triflora and in Caprifolium being abstracted in Xylos- teum and in A. Ckinensis. In a third species {Abelia uniflora) sent from China by Mr. John Beeves, and for a
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