an oblong tetragonal sced surrounded by a fleshy 2-lobed 
arillus. It has hitherto proved impossible to identify V. 
emarginata with any Peruvian plant collected since 1t was 
described, but it is obvious that it is a member of a genus 
very different from that to which the plant with a distinct 
style and a drupaceous fruit here figured belongs. 
Specimens of our plant, V. mucronata, collected at Con- 
cepcion in Chile, were made the basis of a second and different 
Villaresia by the same authors in 1802 (FI. Per. et Chil. 
vol. iii. p. 8), and although D. Don in 1832, realizing the 
situation, proposed to substitute for the Chilian Villaresia 
the name Citronella, his suggestion has not been adopted, 
subsequent authors preferring to apply the name proposed 
by Ruiz and Pavon to the Chilian V. mucronata and its 
allies. The material on which the figure of V. mucronata 
here given has been based was derived from a fine example 
in the garden of the Right Hon. the Earl of Ilchester at 
Abbotsbury, where it forms a tree between 50 and 60 ft. 
high, of pyramidal habit, but somewhat drawn up by other 
trees. It may be remarked that Miers stated that this 
species, which is the ‘ Naranjillo’ of Aconcagua, had been 
described in the Viceroy’s report to His Majesty the King 
of Spain as from 50 to 60 ft. high, but that he (Miers) had 
never seen or heard of its attaining any approach to that 
size. The species is only hardy in the south-west of England 
and in other parts of the United Kingdom with a similar 
climate. The upper portion of the tree has leaves which 
are devoid of spines, but on young trees and on suckers 
from old trees the leaves are spinescent-toothed, and the 
plant described as V. pungens by Miers is only this state of 
V. mucronata. The only mode of increase in this country 
is by means of cuttings, but these, unfortunately, do not root 
readily. The tree at Abbotsbury was introduced to the 
collection there about 1840 by the Hon. W. Fox-Strangways 
—-whose name is commemorated in the genus Stranvaesia, 
one of the most ardent horticulturists of his day. : 
Drscriprion.— Tree ; usually 40 ft. or less, rarely 50-60 ft. 
in height; twigs angular, at first pubescent, ultimately 
nearly glabrous. Leaves alternate, short petioled, ovate- or 
elliptic-oblong, in old trees with a spinulous tip and an 
obtuse or rounded base, 2-3 in. long, 1-13 in. wide, entire ; 
