ot coloured plates; yet it is said to have been introduced in 
1690, and has probably never been lost to cultivation up to 
the present day. 
It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was 
imported by the Dutch, among the earliest productions of 
their South African colony. The Berry is said to be red, 
and fleshy like an Apple, and about as large as a Damson. 
For this reason the species has had the reputation of being a 
fruit tree, to which it has no better title than our own Haw- 
thorn. It, however, represents a natural order, in which the 
seed-vessel of a few species becomes eatable when bletted, as 
occurs in the Chinese “ Fig,” or Diospyros Kaki, and the 
Lote trees of Europe and North America. 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, where it had been received from Sir Philip 
Egerton, Bart. 
It cannot dispense with the protection of a greenhouse. 
The soil best adapted for it is sandy loam and peat in equal 
proportions. Like many other plants, this has a tendency, 
when young, to run up with a single stem ; but this may be 
prevented by pinching off the terminal buds once or twice in 
the course of the year, when the plant will assume as bushy 
a form as any other. It is a species of free growth, and 
requires nothing different in its treatment from what is 
usually bestowed on greenhouse plants. 
Fig. 1. represents a stamen ; 2. a perpendicular section of 
the pistil magnified. 
