instead of being dioicous and bearing the perfect stamens 

 alone in the flowers of one plant and perfect pistil in those 

 of another, by a simple stigma, an indefinitely seeded ger- 

 men (with 5 ovula or more), and collective anthers; and 

 doubts whether the two might not be conveniently united 

 both with Bladhia, which agrees in character of flower and 

 fruit, though it differs by the leaves being in pmrs or threes, 

 and with Wau-enia, a dioicous coordinate, differing from 

 the other three by a corolla with a proportionately longer 

 tube and shallow constantly four-cloven limb. 



Ardisia lentigmosa is said to have been introduced from 

 China about the year 1810, by the late Mr. Evans of 

 Stepney. The drawing was taken at Messrs. ColvilTs nur- 

 sery in the King's Road, Chelsea. 



Ardisia crenata of Roxburgh's manuscripts and Carey's 

 Hortus Bengalensis, is an East Indian species with red 

 flowers, and, we have little doubt, the same with Ardisia 

 elegans of Andrews's Botanists Repository (t. 630). Ardi- 

 sia crenulata of Ventenat is a West Indian species, very 

 distinct from the present, which has a white flower with nu- 

 merous glandular russet specks, indistinctly visible to the 

 naked eye in the corolla, but thicker and more conspicuous 

 in the calyx. The young branches are thick but pliant, 

 and remind us in some measure of those of the well-known 

 Aucuba japonica. In the hothouse, where our shrub is 

 usually cultivated, it is generally seen with masses of bloom 

 on one part and coral-coloured fruit on another, making 

 a very ornamental object for this department of the garden. 



