propagated by cuttings, and in the fertile state must be a 

 handsome plant, with its long pendulous spikes of scarlet 

 berries. Unfortunately, the plant which flowered in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society last July, and from which 

 our drawing was taken, was a male ; so that we are not 

 likely to see these berries until a fresh importation of plants 

 shall have taken place. 



In the structure of its flowers it is extremely curious. 

 The stamens (fig. 2.) are all consolidated into a solid globu- 

 lar mass, the anthers only being at liberty, and nestling in 

 a number of little excavations (fig. 1.) of the mass. 



We find, by our memoranda, that Dr. Blume combines 

 this genus, Kadsura, Staimtonia, and Schizandra into a small 

 group, called SchizandrecB. We have not at hand the work 

 in which Dr. Blume's ideas upon this subject are explained, 

 but we presume, from the ternary structure of the flower of 

 those genera, their aromatic foliage, apocarpous fruit, hypo- 

 gynous stamens, and minute embryo lying in a great mass 

 of albumen, that they constitute a section o^ Anonacece ; dis- 

 tinguished by the climbing habit, imisexual flowers, homo- 

 geneous albumen, and, perhaps, also by their wood. Upon 

 this latter point we however cannot judge, from want of 

 means of examining the wood of Schizandra and Kadsura ; 

 that of Sphcerostema is very like the remarkable wood of 

 Stauntonia or Hollhollia, figured in our introduction to Bo- 

 tany, p. 70, as will be evident from the technical description 

 given of it in this account. 



