of J. latifolia, collected near Nagasaki by the late Mr. Old- 
ham, collector for the Royal Gardens, from whose seeds the 
plant here figured was raised. 
Descr. A tall evergreen glossy bush. Branches very stout, 
angular, grooved when dry. Leaves three to seven inches 
long, oblong linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, obtuse 
or acuminate, serrate, bright glossy-green above, paler and 
opaque below ; nerves numerous, obscure when fresh. Flowers 
probably dicecious, in axillary, dense, subglobose, green clus- 
ters an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. Calyx with 
four short rounded lobes. Corolla cleft nearly to the base 
into four broadly oblong, obtuse, concave, pale-green lobes. 
Stamens usually larger than the corolla; filaments filiform- 
subulate. Berries half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter, 
bright-red, globose or a little depressed, with a large persis- 
tent four-lobed stigma, containing four bony nuts.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, open 3. Calyx :—all magnified. 
