_ of Kew; but was not sd at the period of the publication 
of the second edition of the “‘ Hortus Kewensis ” (181]), 
where only four species are enumerated as existing in 
the Royal Gardens. Loudon, however, states that it was 
found during Lord Macartney’s embassy to China, and 
introduced into England in 1800. : 
Descr. A much-branched glabrous bush four to six 
feet high, branches sub-erect; branchlets long, slender, 
pendulous ; spines in pairs or threes. Leaves fascicled on 
the branches, one to two inches long, very variable in size 
and shape in each fascicle, coriaceous, green, not glaucous, 
from: linear-obovate to spathulate, obtuse acute or apiculate, 
quite entire or rarely sparingly spinulose-toothed (strongly 
So in the young plant); nerves faint. Flowers in very 
slender long-peduncled pendulous many-flowered racemes 
two to three inches long; each on a slender pedicel of one- 
fourth to half an inch long, with a minute deciduous bract 
at its base. Perianth globose, very small, under one-fourth 
of an inch in diameter, pale yellow. Outer sepals minute, 
orbicular; next series cymbiform. Petals smaller, Inner 
Series rather truncate. Berries one-third to half an inch 
long, narrowly ellipsoid, rounded at the base and tip, bright 
red, one to two-seeded ; stigma small, quite sessile.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, stamens :—both enlarged. 
