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PRUNUS japonica. 



Double-flowered Chinese plum-tree. 



ICOSANDMA MOXOGYMA. 



PRUNUS. Cal. infer us, campanulatus, >-fidus, dcciduus. Pet. 5, 

 ori calycis inserta, segmentis alterna. St am. ibidem adnata sub petalis. 

 Germ. 1. Stigma 1. Drupa : mix mouosperma suturis proinimilis. 

 Arbusctda ; folia alterna, stiputacea. Iuterdum pologyna ; quod 

 forsun hum luxuries. Separatur a Jusscco in Cerasum, Prunum, 

 4' Armeniacam. 





P. japonica, (inermis) foliis ovato-v. ovali-lanceolatis, duplicato-seiratis, 

 labris; pedunculis geminis v. solitariis, striato-teretibus, folio duplo 

 brevioribus ; pistillo in medio villoso. 

 Primus japonicus. Thunb. jap. 201. IVUld. sp. pi. <2. 994. 



Arbuscula glabra : rami teretes, cortice cinereo lucido. Folia decidua, 



petiolata, idtra unciam longa, protractius acuminata, immersi nervosa, venu- 

 losa: stipulae 2, herbacece, lineat 'i-subul r at ce, serrato-denlatce, petiolum 

 cequantes aut excedentes. Flores albo-incarnati scynunciam magisve transxersiz 

 pedunculi unijlori, semunciales, e gemmis modb sub ramulum aggregatis, 

 viodb solitariis huicque sublateralibus, rarissime e centro gemmce communis. 

 Cal. pallide virens, venosus, tubo brevi oblate campanulato pentagono, seg- 

 mentis recarvo-rotatis, ovatis, obtims, serratis. Pet. subobovata, elliptica, 

 acutula, basi angustata. Germ, viridia, gemina, rarb trina, vix unquam 

 unicum ; stylus albescens, subvillosus : stigma simplex. 



It is now at least seven or eight years since this pretty 

 flowered species first appeared in England ; but we believe 

 it has not been recognised till at present, from the time of 

 Thnnberg's notice of it in its native place. We met with 

 the specimen, from a branch of which the drawing was 

 made, in the conservatory appropriated to chinese vege- 

 tables, at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in Ham- 

 mersmith ; where it formed a small branching tree, about 



five feet 



by the be 



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f April. The petals of the flower are somewhat mill- 

 but not so as to destroy fertility; its small uneat- 



able fruit being (as we were informed) perfected 



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d generally by pairs on each stalk, an effect probably of 



Its introduction is due to the late Mr. Charles Greville, 

 10 received it from China, and was the first to cultivate 



in his botanic garden at Paddington. We suspect that, 



