instead of being dioicous and bearing the perfect stamens 
alone in the flowers of one plant and perfect pistil in those | 
of another, by a simple stigma, an indefinitely seeded ger- — 
men (with 5 ovula or more), and collective anthers; an | 
doubts whether the two might not be conveniently united — 
both with Biapuia, which agrees in character of flower and — 
fruit, though it differs by the leaves being in pairs or threes, — 
and with Wanienia, a dioicous coordinate, differing from — 
the other three by a corolla with a proportionately longer — 
tube and shallow constantly four-cloven limb. 
Aroista lentiginosa is said to have been-introduced from 
China about the year 1810, by the late Mr. Evans of — 
Stepney. The drawing was taken at Messrs. Colvill’s'nur- — 
__ sery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 7 
___ ArpisiA crenata of Roxburgh’s manuscripts and Carey’s | 
Hortus Bengalensis, is an East Indian species with red © 
flowers, and, we have little doubt, the same with ArpistA ’ 
elegans of Andrews’s Botanist’s Repository (t. 630). Arpi- ~ 
sta crenulata of Ventenat is a West Indian species, very — 
distinct from the present, which has a white flower with nu- ~ 
merous glandular russet specks, indistinctly visible to the — 
naked eye in the corolla, but thicker and more conspicuous — 
in the calyx. The young branches are thick but pliant, — 
and remind us in some measure of those of the well-known — 
Aucusa japonica. In the hothouse, where our shrub is — 
usually cultivated, it is generally seen with masses of bloom 
on one part and coral-coloured fruit on another, making 
a very ornamental object for this department of the garden. — 
