are more than five leaflets to a leaf; in the true 
Z. alatum from India there are frequently thirteen 
leaflets. In our Japanese plant the spines are restricted 
to the nodes; in the North Indian type the spines 
often are internodal. The Japanese Z. planispinum is a 
fairly hardy garden shrub; at Kew it is impossible to 
keep Z. alatum alive out of doors for any length of 
time. The material for our figure came from the garden 
of Bitton Vicarage, and a melancholy interest attaches to 
our subject in its being the last contribution to the 
Botanical Magazine by one who was for many years its 
unfailing and enthusiastic supporter. Canon Ellacombe 
sent the fruits in December, 1914, and the flowers in 
June, 1915, only a few months before his death. At 
Bitton Z. planispinum forms a bush six feet high and 
rather more through. It succeeds there very well in the 
good loamy soil, and its fine crop of red fruits make a 
very ornamental object in the winter season. Canon 
Ellacombe was always greatly interested in the way its 
leaves roll their margins under during the winter, as is 
also the habit of some Himalayan Rhododendrons at the 
same season. This, by minimising the leaf surface 
ned Amat to radiation, may be a protection against great 
cold. 
Descriprion.— Shrub of bushy, spreading habit, 6-12 ft. high; branchlets 
purplish-brown, glabrous or nearly so, armed with a pair of spines at each node ; 
spines thin, flat, triangular, }-} in. long by 1-2 in. wide at the base, ending in 
a hard slender point; lenticels small, whitish. Leaves semi-persistent or 
deciduous, alternate, aromatic when crushed, 3-10 in. long, unifoliolate, tri- 
foliolate, or pinnate with five leaflets ; rachis winged, 1—3 in. wide, often armed 
with one or more slender spines; leaflets subsessile, narrowly elliptic to 
lanceolate, 1-5 in. long, 4-1} in. wide, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate, 
the margins shallowly crenate with a circular gland on each tooth ; dark green 
and glabrous above, pale beneath, with a tuft of brown pubescence on the 
midrib near the base. Panicles axillary, 3-1 in. long, minutely pubescent. 
Flowers polygamous, greenish, very small. and inconspicuous. Sepals and 
petals subulate. ' Ovary glabrous, flask-shaped, oblique; style decurved ; 
carpels usually two. Fruit 2-valved, globose, verrucose, } in. wide, red, 
containing one shining black seed. 
Tas. 8754.—Fig. 1, tip of leaf; 2, female flower; 3, the same, sepals and 
petals removed ; 4, fruit; 5, seed:—all enlarged. 
