but without locality. Aiton, in the second edition of 

 " Hortus Kewensis," says that it was introduced by Sir 

 Joseph Banks from the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena ; 

 and I gathered it myself, in 1840, abundantly in the latter 

 locality, where it is, however, nndoubtedly introduced. In 

 1813, Sims figured a double-flowered state of it as var. 

 coronarius ; this was brought from Penang (Prince of Wales 

 Island) by a Mr. Evans, of Stepney, whose name should 

 be gratefully remembered by Horticulturists, for Mr. Sims 

 states that this gentleman " devoted almost the whole of 

 his income to the acquirement of new and rare plants, 

 which he generously distributed amongst other collectors." 

 Mr. Sims adds that " nurserymen usually call it B. sinensis, 

 but on what authority it is considered as coming from 

 China we know not." The Botanical Magazine was, how- 

 ever, the first publication in which the plant was described 

 from specimens which, though no doubt cultivated ones, 

 were brought from its native country, nor was it till much 

 later that its geographical limits were determined. Even 

 so late as 1840, the late Dr. Harvey sent to Sir W. Hooker 

 a figure of it from the Cape of Good Hope, which was 

 published in the u Icones Plantarum," with the remark that 

 it is perhaps a native of Table Mountain. The fact is that 

 the intercourse maintained by the ships of the East India 

 Company between India, the Cape of Good Hope and St. 

 Helena, sufficiently accounts for its introduction into those 

 countries ; and it has already spread from them into so 

 many others, that it promises to be a cosmopolite in the 

 warm countries of the globe. It is an undoubted native 

 of the Himalayan Mountains, the Malay Peninsula, Java, 

 China and Japan, in which latter country the double variety 

 figured in this Magazine (t. 1733) is cultivated as a garden 

 shrub. Mr. Morris informs me that it is naturalized in 

 several of the West Indian Islands, and its fruit sold in 

 their markets under the name of " Framboisier." 



As a species B. roscefolius is not likely to be confounded 

 with any other, though some Malayan species approach it 

 very nearly. Its chief attractions are its evergreen foliage, 

 the delicate white of the petals, and above all the fruit, 

 which is copiously produced in cultivation and charming 

 to the eye, though insipid to the taste. — J. D. JI. 



Fig. 1 and 2, Stamens ; 3, young carpels : — all enlarged. 



