until 1911 not one of the examples in the Kew collection 
ever developed a fruit; in that summer, doubtless owing to 
the prolonged and excessive heat, an abundant crop of 
berries was produced. ‘These, being of a bright red colour, 
rendered the plants most attractive during July and August. 
Hitherto the species has been propagated by layering, cuttings 
having proved difficult to strike. Doubtless this method of 
increase will still, as a rule, require to be adopted; it may 
be long ere another crop of fruits is borne. A loamy, well- 
drained soil, of a light rather than heavy yet by no means 
too light character, suits it best, and it must be given the 
sunniest position available. 
Descriprion.— Shrub, 3-4 ft. high, much branched; 
branches spreading, brownish, densely leafy, armed with 
straight spmes. Leaves clustered on the thickened nodes, 
oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole, 1-1} in. 
long, 4 in. wide, glaucous, somewhat fleshy, obscurely 
veined. Flowers solitary or in pairs; pedicels 2 lin. long, 
glabrous. Calyx rather shorter than the pedicel, cup- 
shaped, fleshy, glabrous; lobes 5, as long as the tube, 
obtuse or somewhat acute. Corolla pale greenish-yellow or 
almost white, purplish-pink at the base, 3 in. long; tube 
cylindric below, funnel-shaped above; lobes 5, rhomboid- 
ovate, obtuse, 24 lin. long. Stamens 5, nearly equal, 
exserted; filaments attached slightly above the middle of 
the corolla-tube, their free portion glabrous, that below the 
attachment pilose; anthers Ovate-cordate. Style filiform, 
far exserted ; stigma clavate, slightly 2-lobed. Berry 
globose, red, 1-1 in. across, 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, corolla, laid open, and stame 
i i MSs ; thers ; 
5, ovary ; 6, vertical section of the same :—all enlarged, py And 4, anthers; 
