hardy species. The beauty of V. Henryi is, however, 
greatest in September, when the fruits are of a beautiful 
coral-red and are only beginning to turn black. In habit 
it is somewhat stiff and rather sparingly furnished with 
leaves. It is easily propagated by means of cuttings made 
of fairly ripened wood and placed in gentle heat, Like 
most of the species of the genus it prefers a cool, moist, 
loamy soil. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, showy when in fruit, sometimes 
erect and stiff, 10-14 ft. high, sometimes, according to 
Henry, in a wild state clambering on rocks, evergreen, 
nearly glabrous everywhere except on the bud_ scales; 
flowering twigs terete, rather slender; internodes shorter 
than ihe leaves. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous, 
oblong or ovate-oblong or lanceolate, sometimes narrowly 
lanceolate, up to 6 in. long, but usually 2-4 in. long, 
narrowed to both extremities or more or less rounded at 
the base, callous-toothed and sometimes reddish along the 
margin, glabrous or very sparingly stellate-pubescent on 
the main-nerves beneath, and there with sunken glands at 
the junction of the nerves and midrib; main nerves 5-7 on 
each side, rather prominent; petiole 114 in. long, slightly 
widened upwards and faintly winged. lowers small, pale 
yellow or greenish yellow, cymosely paniculate, very shortly 
pedicelled; panicles terminal, pyramidal, 2-4 in. long, their 
twigs red, bracteate; bracts linear, very soon deciduous, the 
lowest I-14 lin. long. Calye very short, unequally 
5-toothed; teeth rounded. Corolla shortly campanulate, 
3-33 lin. across ; lobes rounded, faintly denticulate. Stamens 
shorter than the corolla lobes, Ovary 1-locular, 1-ovuled. 
Drupe coral red, deepening as it ripens, at length almost 
black, 4-5 lin. long. 
Fig. 1, portion of under side of leaf, showing glands; 2, a flower-bud ; 3, an 
expanded flower; 4, calyx and pistil; 5, stamen in bud; 6, stamen from an 
expanded flower; 7, a drupe:—ali enlarged. 
