however, taken the unusual course of supplying a second 
portrait of the same species owing to the fact that in the 
previous instance it was alluded to under an unnecessary 
name, but because in 1799 the fruit, which is not always 
to be met with in cultivated specimens, could not then 
be illustrated. The plant from which the material for 
our plate has been derived is one which was presented to 
Kew by the Director of the Jardin Colonial, Paris, under 
the name £. Michelii, Lamk. It has been grown in the 
great Palm House in a pot and has formed a much- 
branched shrub, some seven feet in height. There it 
fruited freely in May, 1914, and has enabled us to supple- 
ment the original plate. The fruits are edible. The 
specimen now figured, like that figured in 1799, is typical 
of the species, which, however, exhibits a certain degree 
of variation in the disposition of the flowers. 
DrscripTion.—Shrub or small tree; twigs terete and 
glabrous, internodes about as long as the leaves. Leaves 
opposite, ovate-elliptic, with an obtusely acuminate 
apex and a rounded base, up to 2} in. long and 1} in. 
broad; on the lower surface midrib, nerves, and smaller 
veins raised, on the upper midrib slightly impressed, but 
the nerves and smaller veins slightly raised; lateral 
nerves numerous on each side of the midrib, anastomos- 
ing towards the entire margin; lamina glabrous and 
punctate, supported by a petiole which is up to + in. 
long. lowers solitary, axillary, usually distant; 
peduncle terete, up to 14 in. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, 
declinate, persistent, erect or slightly incurved in the 
mature fruit, oblong, subobtuse, } in. long, +, in. broad, 
somewhat ciliate. Petals 4, white, declinate, oblong- 
obovate, with a rounded apex, over } in. long, + in. 
broad, somewhat ciliate. Stamens numerous, 3-4 seriate ; 
filaments glabrous, up to } in. long; anthers very short. 
Receptacle glabrous, broadly turbinate. Style simple, } in. 
long, glabrous. uit more or less spherical, 1-1} in. in 
diametér, deeply sulcate, red, crowned by the persistent 
sepals, 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, calyx and pistil; 8, anther; 4, transverse section of 
ovary near base; 5, the same, near the apex ; 6, transverse section of fruit :— 
all enlarged except 6, which is of natural size. 
