flowers are produced in June in large, racemose inflorescences 
which spring from each node on the upper part of the 
previous year’s growth. The plant thrives well in an 
ordinary border of loamy soil, and the only special attention 
it requires is the cutting away of the old stems after 
- fruiting. 
Description.— Shrub, erect or suberect, stems unarmed 
or occasionally slightly thorny, roundish, rather thick, 
brown ; new shoots finely puberulous; internodes 2-3 in. 
long. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; petioles glabrous, 14-3 in. 
long; leaflets ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute or caudate- 
acuminate, closely sharply toothed, glabrous on both sur- 
faces, the lateral almost sessile, the distal distinctly 
stalked, 2-4 in. long, 1-2} in. wide; stipules linear, 
acuminate, 4% in. long. acemes lax, 24-3 in. long; 
bracts lanceolate-oblong, acute, + in. long; pedicels slender, 
slightly pubescent, $-14 in. long; individual flowers 3-1} 
in. across. Sepals deltoid-ovate, acuminate, nearly } in. long, 
white-margined, puberulous. Petals obovate, white, 2—3 in. 
long. Stamens very many ; filaments glabrous, }—} in. long. 
Carpels glabrous; styles glabrous, 745 in. long. Drupes 
black, fleshy. 
Fig. 1, section of flower after fall of petals and stamens; 2, stamens; 
3, carpel :—all enlarged. 
