and Hong Kong, of which specimens in Kew Herbarium 
from the Loo Choo Islands have leaves ten inches long by 
two and a half inches broad, and fruits two-thirds of an 
inch in diameter. 
Var. Sieboldii, King, of which there are two subvarieties : | 
a Japanese, that here figured ; and one (which I have not 
seen) from the Sikkim Himalaya, and Khasia Hills in 
Bengal, with the leaves hispidly hairy beneath. 
The specimens of var. Sieboldii here figured are from a 
large bush in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, 
received in 1878 from the late Dr. Schomburg, Director 
of the Adelaide Botanical Gardens, and which fruits in the 
summer months. 
Deser. of var. Sieboldit,—A bush or small tree, glabrous, 
‘or with the branchlets and leaves slightly hairy. Leaves 
six to eight inches long, linear- or oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, thin, smooth or slightly scabrid, dark green 
above, entire, or rarely with a lobe on one or both margins ; 
base rounded, cuneate, or cordate, and three to five-nerved. 
Fruit solitary or binate, long-peduncled, half an inch in 
diameter, globosely pyriform, narrowed into a peduncle as 
long as itself, yellow and red. Peduncle one and a half 
inches long, green, with 3 minute bracts at the top.— 
pipes 6 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of fruit ; 2, female f.; 3, ovary :—All enlarged, 
