flowered in June, 1897, and fruited in the following 

 November. Professor Sargent received the seeds from 

 which his plants were raised from Mr. S. H. Parsons of 

 Flushing (New York). He had previously obtained some 

 from Dr. Bretschneider, collected in the vicinity of Peking. 

 Descr. — A rambling shrub, attaining fifteen feet in 

 height, copiously branched, quite glabrous all over ; bark 

 brown, warted ; branches straight or twining ; branchlets 

 green. Leaves petioled, three to five inches long, oblong, 

 oval, obovate or suborbicular, acute, tip obtuse, crenate- 

 serrate, base cuneate, nerves six to eight pairs ; petiole a 

 quarter to half an inch long; stipules a tuft of a few 

 filaments. Floivers in short, shortly peduncled, axillary, 

 few-fld. cymes, about one-sixth of an inch broad, green, 

 with yellow anthers. Calyx small, campanulate, lobes 

 five, short, rounded. Petals much longer than the calyx 

 lobes, linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamens 5, fila- 

 ments subulate, seated in the margin of a five-lobed disk, 

 anthers short. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, narrowed into a 

 columnar style, with three broad, recurved stigmatic 

 lobes. Capsule pisiform, brown, tipped by the persistent 

 style, three- valved. valves golden-yellow within, at length 

 reflexed, exposing the seeds enveloped in a shining, scarlet 

 aril.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of branch with stipule, petiole, and base of peduncle of 

 cyme; 2, flowers ; 3, section of base of calyx, showing ovary, disk and stamens ; 

 4, stamen ; 5, contents of a capsule, after the fall of the valves, and the drying 

 up of the fleshy aril : — All enlarged. 



