coriaceous, very dark green, elliptical-lanceolate, acute, serrated, 
penninerved, the zerves uniting within the margin. Peduncles 
in our plants all solitary, axillary, curved down, single-flowered. 
Flower drooping, an inch and a half across. Calya bibracteolate 
at the base, five-sepaled ; sepals broad ovate, acute, green, mar- 
gined with red. Petals cream-white, obcordate. Stamens nu- 
merous, attached to the base of the petals. Axthers oblong, 
opening by two pores, apiculate or furnished with a tuft or 
pencil of hairs at the back. Ovary subglobose, glabrous, tapering 
into a short séyle, trifid at the point. Fruit “a berry, the size 
of a small cherry, globose, purple, juicy, three- or four-celled. 
Seeds many, angulated.” W, J. H. 
Curr. Although not a showy flowering plant, its neat 
and evergreen habit renders it worthy of a place in general 
collections of stove-plants. It much resembles the well-known 
Ardisia crenulata, but grows more luxuriantly ; as, however, it 
bears cutting back, it may be kept to a proper size, and will 
form a neat bush. Being a native of Jamaica, it should be 
grown in a moderate stove temperature, and will thrive in any — 
kind of light loam, water being freely given it during dry wea- — 
ther in summer. It is readily propagated by cuttings, planted 
: = ses a bell-glass, and plunged in a moderate bottom- 
eat. J. WS. 
Fig. 1, 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
