ARBORETUM: NOTES. 35 
CORNACEA. 
female bushes bore many fruits, fine, healthy and ‘ 
well grown fruits, which began to turn red _ before 
the end of March, and towards the end of April 
changed to a fine scarlet. 
In each year since then, the berries have been 
produced more or less freely. This year (1876) 
we bought several more young plants of the male, 
and have planted them in various places near to the 
female bushes, so that we hope before long to have 
a plentiful crop of the scarlet berries. The male 
plants of Aucuba which are now in this country, 
belong to a different variety from that of which the 
female has been so long cultivated; or rather 
indeed they belong to the typical form of the 
species, having plain green, not variegated leaves. 
These leaves are of a fine rich deep green, very 
glossy. The male flowers appear rather more 
conspicuous than the female which is not saying 
much. 
(1878). The Aucuba is fruiting very well with 
us this year, many of the bushes are bearing more 
or less plentifully their beautiful bright scarlet 
fruits. These berries are produced from the 
flowers which came out in the spring of last year. 
A new species of this genus was discovered by Dr. 
J. D. Hooker and Dr. Thomson, on the Himalaya, 
in the Sikkim territories, and is figured and de- 
scribed in Dr. Hooker’s beautiful work on Hima- 
c 2 
Aucuba 
Japonica 
