by the statement of Loureiro that his plant produced a 
berry, the fruit of the cultivated plant being at that time 
unknown. 
It first produced its flowers in 1814, at Mr. Knight’s 
Nursery, Chelsea, and drawings were made at the same 
time for the Horticultural Society, and for the Botanical 
Magazine. The figure made for the Horticultural Society 
gave rise to a paper upon the subject read before that body 
on the 5th April, 1814, by R. A. Salisbury, Esq., in 
which the plant was called Melidora pellucida, a name 
which, it was stated upon the authority of certain seeds 
given by a Spanish nobleman to Mr. Salisbury, had 
been applied to the plant by Noronha, a Spanish Botanist. 
In the month of June of the same year the figure made for 
the Botanical Magazine was published under the name of 
Enkianthus quinqueflorus. Yn neither of these publications 
was any notice taken of the fruit, although, if Loureiro’s 
statement of its nature had been correct, the genus would 
barely have been distinguishable from Arbutus. That the 
Editor of the Botanical Magazine should not have adverted 
to it, would, of course, have arisen from his not having. seen 
it; but that Mr. Salisbury, before whom it appears that 
fruit had been placed for examination, should have taken no 
notice of its nature, is more singular. When, however, it 
is remembered that M. Noronha, from whom Mr. Salis- 
bury’s seeds were said to have come, died more than twenty 
years before Mr. Salisbury could have received his seeds, 
it becomes probable that some mistake existed, as to the 
quarter from whence the seeds given to Mr. Salisbury by 
the Spanish nobleman above alluded to actually came; 
otherwise we cannot conceive how the difference between 
the real nature of the fruit, which is a capsule, and the re- 
ported nature of it, which according to Loureiro’s account 
was a berry, could have escaped the observation of so ex- 
perienced a Botanist as Mr. Salisbury. From Chinese 
drawings in the Banksian Library it appears that the 
fruit of Enkianthus is a capsule crowned by the persistent 
style, and not a berry, as stated by Father Loureiro. 
