Kew; for the female inflorescence and the fruit we are 
indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Berkeley of Spetchley 
Park, Worcester, in whose garden they were produced. 
It is to be noted that as they ripen in this country the 
fruits are of a pale rusty yellow colour, not orange or 
red as they are in Szechuan. At Kew the shrub is 
perfectly hardy and thrives well in loamy soil. It can 
be increased readily by cuttings. The section Berisia to 
which it belongs contains seventeen species, most of them 
Chinese, though it includes also the well-known &. alpi- 
num, Linn., a native of Europe and Northern Asia. 
Description.—Shrub, 6-9 ft. high, branching freely, unarmed, dioecious ; 
twigs of the first season thinly pubescent and sparingly glandular-setulose ; 
bark of older twigs brown or tawny, cracking longitudinally. Leaves variable 
in shape, more or less ovate, wide, more or less truncate or often slightly 
cordate at the base, usually more or less 8—5-lobed, the lobes often shallow, 
rarely absent, the margin at the same time coarsely twice serrate, 2}—4 in. long 
and broad, sparingly beset with short hairs above, softly hairy beneath 
especially on the nerves; petiole 3-12 in. long, laxly hirsute and at the same 
time glandular-setulose. Racemes 5-6 in. long, at the tips of short flower- 
shoots, erect or somewhat nodding, but assuming an apparently lateral position 
as the flower-shoot elongates ; bracts lanceolate, acute, 1-} in. long, pubescent 
and sparingly glandular; pedicels 4-1 in. long, also pubescent and glandular. 
Male flowers saucer-shaped. Receptacle 3, in. long, pubescent and glandular . 
at the base. Calyx deep tawny red; lobes rather rounded, ;);—} in. long. 
‘Petals minute, spathulate-unguiculate, the claw linear, the limb ,, in. across. 
Stamens 3, in. long; filaments slightly dilated at the base. Styles of the 
imperfect ovary ;; in. long, connate at the base, as long as the petals. Female 
flowers resembling the male, but with the receptacle of the inferior ovary ovoid, 
finely villous and densely clothed in addition with glandular bristles 3 in. long, 
with the anthers reduced to tubercles adnate to the receptacle and with the 
styles, which are connate half way up, longer than the petals. Frwit ovoid 
globose, over } in. in diameter, tipped by the persistent female flower, red or 
reddish-yellow, clothed with white hairs, and in addition with a sparse covering 
of glandular bristles over } in. long. Seeds obovate-elliptic in outline, nearly 
ys in. across, brown, faintly marginate. 
Tas. 8840.—Fig. A, male inflorescence; 1, male flower in vertical section ; 
B, female inflorescence ; 2, female flower, in vertical section ; 3, fruiting raceme ; 
4, fruit; 5, seed :—all enlarged except A, B, and 3, which are of natural size. 
