here given is of a plant growing in the open air in 

 the Isle of Wight, kindly sent by Mr. Charles Dew of 

 Ventnor. 



Descr. — A dioecious shrub or a small tree, reaching 

 thirty feet in height, with pubescent branchlets, young 

 leaves and panicles. Leaves two inches long, opposite or 

 sub-opposite, ovate, acuminate, sharply serrate, mem- 

 branous, pale green, base rounded or sub-cordate ; petiole 

 slender. Panicles three to five inches long, axillary and 

 opposite, or terminating short lateral branchlets, shortly 

 peduncled, erect, very many-flowered. Flowers shortly 

 pedicelled, about a quarter of an inch in diameter. 

 Sepals oblong, obtuse, green. Petals broadly cnneate, 

 shortly and obtusely three- to five-lobed at the broad end, 

 rose-red. Dish-glands globose. Anthers linear-oblong, 

 longer than the hairy filaments. Ovary oblong, three- to 

 four-celled, narrowed into a three- to four- grooved style, 

 which divides above into as many decurved, slender, sig- 

 moid branches. Berry globose, pisiform, three- to four- 

 celled and seeded. Seeds globosely trigonous ; testa 

 crustaceous, with a fleshy coating. — J. I), H. 



rig. 1, male flower; 2, stamens and disk gland; 3, female flower (from 

 herbarium specimen) ; 5, ripe fruit ; 6, seed : — all hut fig. 5 enlarged. 



