enumeration of Japan plants, or in Miquel’s ‘‘ Prolusio 
Flore Japonice.” 
At Kew it was first obtained, in about 1879, from 
the Jardin des Plantes, amongst a collection of species 
of Ligustrum sent by M. Decaisne shortly after he 
enumerated those known to him, in the “Flore des 
Serres.” Though it stood out of doors at Kew for several 
years, it suffered from cold winters, and never throve. 
In Cornwall, however, it is quite hardy. The figure here 
given is of a specimen kindly sent in 1889 to the Royal 
Gardens by Mr. Rashleigh of Menabilly, which flowered in 
the Temperate House in June of the present year. 
Descr.—A rigid, closely branched, evergreen, rigid shrub, 
three to six feet high, perfectly glabrous; branches and 
branchlets stout, leafy. Leaves two to two and a half 
inches long, shortly, stoutly petioled, orbicular or orbi- 
cular-ovate, tip rounded, rigid, coriaceous, dark green, 
convex and shining above with a very narrow red-purple 
border, paler beneath, nerves very slender and faint. 
Panicle two to four inches long; peduncle, rachis and 
spreading branches stout. Flowers collected in globose, — 
terminal and lateral clusters or heads on the panicle, sessil 
or very obscurely pedicelled, white; bracteoles minute, 
subulate. Calyx cupular, limb truncate, obscurely toothed. 
Corolla one-quarter of an inch in diameter, tube about as 
long as the ovate spreading and recurved lobes. Siamens 
normally two, but three to four occur; filaments very 
short. Ovary globose, style stout, stigma 2-lobed. Berry 
globose, the size of a small pea, black.—J. D. A. 
Fig. 1, Flower and bracteoles; 2, bracteole, calyx and ovary; 3 and 4 
stamens :—adl enlarged; 5, fruit of the natural size; 6, calyx and berry, and 
7, seed, both enlarged. 
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