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 326 CHARACTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF

uninervi (exteriore ?) ovarii, monospermo, ovulo ovato, re- liquis aliquoties majore, a margine inferiore fenestra? chorda3 pistillaris pendulo, vasculoso fasciculo dorsali ! 378] Stylus filiformis, glaber, longitudine staminum. Stigma depresso - capitatum, indivisum, imberbe. Pericardium figura ovarii, eoque vix duplo majus, calycis limbo, pro- portionatim aucto, coronatum, monospermum, loculis duobus abortientibus ad alterum latus pressis (fig. 4), in- dehiscens, coriaceum, exsuccum. Semen (fig. 4 et 5) sub- cylindraceum, cavitatem ovarii fere replens, prope apicem insertum funiculo brevi. lntegumentum duplex : exterius membranaceum, laxiusculum ; interius tenuissimum, albu- mini arete adlierens. Albumen (fig. 6) figura et magni- tudine seminis, dense carnosum, album. Embryo (fig. 6 et 7) axilis, rectus, albus, albumine aliquoties (fere quad- ruple) brevior : Cotyledones breves : Radicida supera.

Obs. The genus Abelia is named in honour of its dis- coverer, 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 collec- tions formed in China by this zealous naturalist were, un- fortunately for science, lost in the Avreck 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 mono- petala, 5-partita. Stamina 12 — 15. Ovarium superum, 3-loc. Stylus 1. Stigmata 2 — 3.

Mas. Cal. Cor. et Stam. ut in Hermaph. Pistillum 0.

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