feet ; also from Corea, and from Chekiang in China. It 
has so far proved hardy in my garden near Sunningdale, 
as to have survived without injury the winter of 1900-1. 
Descr.—A glabrous, much branched, eglandularshrub, with 
slender, climbing branches. Prickles scattered, straight, 
compressed. Leaves one to three inches long, orbicular 
and palmately five or six-lobed, or broadly ovate and sub- 
pinnatifidly lobed, base sub-cordate, lobes ovate or lanceo- 
late, acuminate, inciso-serrate, bright green above, pale 
‘beneath ; petiole one to two inches long, bearing a few 
scattered minute bristles; stipules inserted above the 
base of the petiole, linear, acuminate, sparingly denti- 
culate. lowers solitary, axillary, one to one and a half 
inches in diameter; pedicels very slender, sparsely setose. 
Calyz-tube hemispheric; lobes linear-lanceolate, about half 
as long as the petals, acuminate, sparingly serrate. Petals 
elliptic, obtuse, pure white. Jilaments slender, erect, 
anthers yellow. Carpels crowded on the top of a short, - 
cylindric column, oblong, smooth; style very slender. 
Fruit globose, nearly an inch in diameter, yellow, succu- 
lent.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, base of petiole and stipules; 2, base of calyx, stamens, and carpels; 
3, carpel :—all enlarged. 
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