Tas. 5805. 
RHODOTYPUS KERRIOIDES. 
Japanese Rhodotypus. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—IcOSANDRIA DIGyYnNIA. 
Gen. Char.—Calycis persistentis tubus explanatus, intus villosus ; lobi 4, 
foliacei, argute serrati, imbricati. Petala 4, ampla, orbiculata. Discus 
lla includens 
amplus, carnosus, in urceolum 4-dentatum intus sericeum carpe 
constrictus. Stamina perplurima, filamentis filiformibus liberis; anthere 
late didymo-oblonge. Carpella 4; styli filiformes, exserti, stigmatibus 
capitellatis; ovula 2, sub apice loculi pendula. Drupe 1-4, pisiformes, 
epicarpio sicco nitido a sarcocarpio farinaceo secedente, putamine osseo reti- 
culato l-spermo. Semina obovoidea, testa membranacea ; cotyledones 
plano-convexe ; radicula curva, supera.—Frutex J aponicus rams decussatis 
virgatis strictis, gemmis perulatis. Folia decussatim opposita, petiolata, 
ovata, acuminata, argute serrata, subtus sericea. Stipule Libera, membrana- 
cee. Flores solitarit, ampli, ramulos terminantes, breviter pedicellati ; calyce 
4-bracteolato. 
1. Ruopotyrus Kerrioides, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 187, t. xe. Regel, 
Gartenflora, Vv. XV. P- 130. t. 505, f. 2 and 3. 
CAD EO ORO OPO aoa TaE T 
A very elegant shrub, and no doubt hardy, a native of 
Japan, where it is said to grow wild in the mountains of 
Kiusiu, but which is known only in cultivation ; flowering in 
April and ripening its black fruit in mid-winter. The latter 
resembles that of a blackberry, except in the fewness and 
dryness of the drupes. It was introduced first of all into 
the Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburgh, by M. Maximovicz, 
the eminent Japanese traveller and botanist, and has since 
been transmitted to Europe by other parties. The plant 
here figured flowered # the Temperate House at Kew in May 
of the present year, from seeds by Mr. Oldham, from J apan. 
Dxscr. A shrub fifteen to twenty feet high, according to 
the Japanese, but only known to botanists as attaining three 
to six feet under cultivation. Branches twiggy, spreading ; 
NOVEMBER IsT, 1869. 
