A small spreading bush, with deciduous, bright green foliage. The branches are very slender, covered with fine down, and deep reddish brown, when fully exposed to the sun. The leaves are opposite, ovate, distantly serrated, on very short stalks, quite smooth except at the midrib on the underside, where they are closely covered with short hairs. The flowers are pure white, something like those from the noneysuckle, and come in pairs from the axils of leaves belonging to the short lateral tranche. At the base of the ovary stand three very small bracts. The ovary itself is slender and downy; surmounted by a calyx of five obovate ciliated sepals, which are slightly stained rose color, and rather membraneous. The corolla when expanded is half an inch long, funnel-shaped, downy, with a spreading border of five convex ovate blunt equal lobes, beyond whose tube extend four smooth filaments.

The plant is distinguishable from Abelia chinensis of Brown, by its want of involucre, smooth leaves, and not trichotomous flowers; and from the Abelia serrata of Zuccarini and Stebold, by its five leaved calyx. It has hitherto been treated as a greenhouse plant, but will probably prove hardy enough to stand out of doors in mild winters. The soil which appears most suitable is rough sandy loam, mixed with a little peat. Being of free growth, an ample supply of water is necessary during the summer season. In winter nothing different from the general treatment of greenhouse plants is required. It is propagated from cuttings of young wood, in the usual way. From its being sweet-scented, and tne length of time it remains in flower, this will be of considerable importance as a greenhouse plant; and, should it prove hardy, it will doubtless be a good addition to the shrubbery in consequence of its flowering in autumn. Received from Mr. Fortune, June 20th, 1844, as a fine dwarf shrub, found amongst rocks on the Chamoo Hills, China. - Journal Horticultural Society.