The ftipule not noticed by) Tuunsere appear to afford a 
good fpecific charaéter ; but as it often happens that thefe 
parts are producéd only while a plant is young, we cannot fay 
how far it may apply in older trees. 
We learn i in the Flora Japonica, that it varies extremely in 
fize, being 1 in different fituations either-an underfhrub, a fhrub, 
oratree. From the fame fource, we are informed that the 
fruit is nearly round, {mooth, and the fize of a walnut. 
Our figure reprefents the whole {pecimen at the time it 
flowered ; it has fince .increafed. in height, and thrown out 
feveral fide branchlets, armed with ftraight {pines at their 
extremities ; and other ‘fpines have grown in the axils of the 
leaf-ftalks. 
Flowered the beginning of Augult, 
Voip aed eS “- 
LAR EO STKE 2, 
