lat. 44°, and flowered the plants he raised from them in May, 
1870. He describes it as “a bush a yard high, covered with 
large lovely blossoms, and quite an ornamental plant, irre- 
spective of the coming fruit.” The fruit, however, did not 
come either in that or the following year, but in the end of 
last July Mr. Anderson Henry sent a fruit, which is here 
figured, and which was of a maroon brown colour and agree- 
able taste. : 3 
Drscr. A shrub a yard high, pubescent and tomentose, 
but without glands, bristles, or prickles; stems much branched, 
erect, covered with brown bark. Leaves long-petioled, two inches 
in diameter, orbicular-reniform, 3—5-lobed, acutely toothed, 
rugose, bright green; stipules lanceolate, acuminate. Pedun- 
cles solitary, axillary, 1—3-flowered ; pedicels slender, often 
exceeding the leaves. FVowers many, two inches in diameter. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate, with dilated cut tips. Petals pure 
white, orbicular, crenate, longer than the sepals, wit globose 
soft, sweet.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx ; 2, ovary ; 3, ripe fruit :—all but 3 magnified. 
