alternate, and nearly equal to them in length ; filaments short, smooth. 
AnTHERS oblong-linear, acute, two-cleft at the base, two-celled, smooth, 
with a longitudinal dehiscence. Ovary inferior, obovate, smooth, 
4.celled, two of the cells 4-5 seeded, the two alternate cells one-seeded, 
ovules pendulous. Style erect, smooth, shorter than the tube of the 
corolla. Stiema capitate two-lobed? Berry globose, crowned with 
the persistent calyx, smooth, white, transparent, two-celled, cells one- 
seeded. A.suMeEN fleshy. Emsryo lodged in the upper part of the 
albumen, straight, inverted. 
Poputar AND GEocrapHicaL Notice. — =. ee to 
Humboldt, is scarcely different from his S 
(which he seems to have accidentally lel ate nei, ak 
the leaves and flowers are much larger. Found native at the height 
of seven or eight thousand feet in the mountains of Mexico, near Santa 
Rosa, where it flowers and ripens its fruit in September. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This desirable shrub 
was raised in the year 1829, in the garden of the late Mr. Barclay, of 
Bury Hill, from seeds received from Cervantes, professor of botany at 
Mexico. Other seeds may, possibly, have been introduced to Great 
Britain, but it i is more than probable that from this source have ema- 
It is a shrub which at present is 
very little EiavFansen nurserymen. 
The Symphoricarpos montanus is perfectly hardy. It becomes a 
dense bush, much branched, five to six feet high, and almost evergreen. 
It commences flowering i in August, and continues it till autumnal 
frosts check the further progress of its gaiety. It may be rapidly in- 
creased hy layers, and seems to require no peculiarity of soil or ma- 
nagement, 
DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. 
Ribot dohecgbaneaie from Svpgopew to collect, and Kapzoc a fruit, from the 
berries a Ia ded - together. Moxraxvs, from mons, a mountain, in 
reference to bi deontity 
SynonyMeEs. 
nciedtiaraene Montanvs. Humb. Bonp. et Kunth. Nova Genera et 
Species, III, p. 332, t.296. Decandolle » Prodromus, Vol. IV, p. 339. 
Sravecsis Moxtins, Sprengel, Syst. Veget. Vol. I, p, 757. 
