propagated. by cuttings, and in the fertile state must be a 
handsome plant, with its long pendulous spikes of scarlet 
berries. Unfortunately, the plant which flowered in the 
garden of the Horticultural Society last July, and from which 
our drawing was taken, was a male; so that we are not 
likely to see these berries until a fresh importation of. plants 
shall have taken place. 
In the structure of its flowers it is extremely curious. 
The stamens (fig. 2.) are all consolidated into a solid globu- 
lar mass, the anthers only being at liberty, and nestling in 
a number of little excavations ( fig. 1.) of the mass. 
We find, by our memoranda, that Dr. Blume combines 
this genus, Kadsura, Stauntonia, and Schizandrainto a small 
group, called Schizandree. We have not at hand the work 
in which Dr. Blume's ideas upon this subject are explained, 
but we presume, from the ternary structure of the flower of 
those genera, their aromatic foliage, apocarpous fruit, hypo- 
uyt stamens, and minute embryo lying in a great mass 
of albumen, that they constitute a section of Anonacee ; dis- 
tinguished by the climbing habit, unisexual flowers, homo- 
geneous albumen, and, perhaps, also by their wood. Upon 
this latter point we however cannot judge, from want of 
means of examining the wood of Schizandra and Kadsura ; 
that of Spherostema is very like the remarkable wood of 
Stauntonia or Hollböllia, figured in our introduction to Bo- 
tany, p. 70, as will be evident from the technical description 
given of it in this account. 
