fornia,” it is further stated that the fruit is not constricted 
below the calyx-lobes, which it is very conspicuously. 
The Kew plants were raised from seed received from Prof. 
Sargent, and flowered in the Arboretum in July; the fruit 
ripened in September. 
Descr. A small, rather straggling, slender, much 
branched, nearly glabrous bush, unarmed or with smail 
(rarely stout) straight or upcurved stipular spines. Leaves 
two to three inches long, petiole and rachis very slender, 
minutely pubescent. Leaflets two to three pair and an 
odd one, three-quarters of an inch long, broadly elliptic, 
obtuse, finely serrate, dark green but not shining above, 
paler and puberulous beneath; stipules narrow, not leafy. 
Flowers one inch in diameter, solitary or in few- 
flowered corymbs, pedicel slender, rarely hispid. Calyx 
glandular; tube urceolate in flower; lobes very long, 
the broadly triangular ovate base contracted into a 
very slender lamina three times as long as the tube and 
slightly dilated at the tip, hoary within. Petals orbicular, 
two-fid, rose-coloured. Stamens very numerous, filaments 
short ; anthers pale yellow. Stigmas very shortly exserted, 
free. Fruit erect, globose, one-third to one-half of an inch 
in diameter, bright red, crown contracted into a neck 
beneath the long erect calyx-lobes. Achenes dimidiate- 
oblong, hirsute on the back and tip.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx laid open, with stamens and carpels; 2, carpels; 3, ripe fruit of 
the natural size; 4, achene:—all but fig. 3 enlarged. 
