laden with its rich red fruits. In both respects we find 
it more ornamental than MV. Toringo, and it is as hardy 
as any of its allies. 
DeEscription.—Shrub 5-6 ft. high; branchlets pubescent, dark purplish- 
brown, sometimes spinescent. Leaves deciduous, ovate to ovate-oblong, 
_ frequently 3-lobed, unevenly and sharply serrate, acute at the apex, the base 
varying from subcordate in the large leaves of the barren shoots to truncate or 
cuneate in the smaller ones; 14-3 in. long, 3-2 in. wide; at first densely clothed 
with whitish hairs, finally dark green and pubescent on the chief veins above, 
pale and slightly villous beneath; petioles 3-1 in. long, slender, pubescent ; 
stipules foliaceous, lanceolate to linear, often lobed, ¢-} in. long. Flowers 
white, 1 in. wide, opening in May, in fascicles on short branchlets; pedicels 
1 in. long, slender, glabrous. Calyx 5-lobed, glabrous outside, villous within, 
the lobes lanceolate, ;* in. long. Petals orbicular with a short claw, over- 
lapping. Stamens 15-20, shorter than the petals, filaments glabrous, anthers 
yellow. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles 3-5, villous towards the base. Fruit 
depressed globose, red, 3-1 in. wide, marked at the top with a circular scar 
where the calyx has fallen away. Seeds brown, } in. long, 
Tas. 8757.—Fig. 1, part of a very young leaf; 2, flower with petals removed ; 
8, section of calyx and ovary; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, fruit :—all enlarged. 
