with acuminate leaves, strongly clavate pedicels an inch 

 long, and moderately sized edible fruit ; y multiflora, 

 spinous, with small variable leaves, shorter peduncles, and 

 small austere fruit ; 8 crispa, tall, spinous, with sublan- 

 leolate leaves and short pedicels. The plant here figured 

 is no doubt the var. hortensis, though its fruits are very 

 austere, and is, perhaps, only known as a cultivated 

 form. 



Franchet and Savat say of E. longipes that it is a hedge 

 and mountain unarmed or spinous plant ; with leaves 

 elliptic to lanceolate, pedicels short or long, solitary or 

 fascicled, and fruit austere or eatable. I find no notice of 

 the fruit being used for sherbet, as is that of the European 

 E. hortensis. 



E. multiflora forms a large bush in the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, where it has been established for many years. It 

 was probably introduced by one of the collectors, Oldham 

 or Wilford, who were sent by the Royal Gardens to Japan 

 about the middle of the century. It flowers in April and 

 fruits abundantly in July. The beautiful fruits are, though 

 very austere, greedily sought by birds. 



Descr. A ramous shrub, four to six feet high, with 

 spreading rigid branches, clothed with brown bark ; shoots 

 densely lepidote. Leaves one to three inches long, ovate 

 or obovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, green above and 

 covered with a deciduous stellate pubescence, beneath 

 silvery-white with lepidote scales and dotted with red- 

 brown. Flowers solitary or few, lepidote like the leaves 

 beneath, pendulous on lepidote pedicels as long as the 

 perianth. Perianth one-half to two- thirds of an inch long, 

 pale straw coloured, base ellipsoid where it covers the 

 ovary, then contracted shortly cylindric, again dilating, 

 and campanulate with four ovate lobes. Anthers small, 

 sessile at the mouth of the tube. Style included, stigma 

 linear. Fruit oblong, half an inch long, oblong, rounded 

 at both ends, yellowish -red, dotted; flesh yellowish, 

 austere. — J. D. H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, Flower; 3, upper part of perianth laid open; 4, vertical section 

 of lower part of perianth showing the ovary; 5, the same with the ovary 

 bisected showing the ovule ; 6, lepidote scales from the under-surface of the 

 eaves and of the fruit; 7, stellate hairs from the upper surface of the 

 leaves ; 8 endocarp of the fruit; 9, the same laid open vertically, showing 

 the seed ; 10, section of seed showing the embryo -.—All enlarged 



