where the species was introduced in 1784; though whence 
the plant here figured came is uncertain ; it will be remarked 
that it has a pubescent calyx-tube like the Himalayan forms. 
Duscr. A small tree, with grey cracked bark, and round 
crown. Leaves one and a half to three and a half inches 
long, usually elliptic, acute or acuminate, finely serrate, 
glabrous, rarely pubescent beneath; petiole as long, very 
slender, glabrous, and as well as the petioles, pedicels and 
calyx, sometimes pubescent. owers umbelled, one and a 
half inches in diameter ; pedicels slender. Calya-tube ovoid ; 
lobes lanceolate, deciduous. Petals white, rather concave, 
spreading, Stamens numerous. Styles 5, nearly free, glabrous 
or woolly at the base. Fruit size of a large cherry in cultiva- 
tion, smaller in a native state, globose, deeply intruded at the 
base, with a broad apical areole, austere, scarlet and greenish 
yellow when ripe, endocarp almost woody in a wild state, and 
occupying nearly the whole fruit.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and styles :—magnified, 
