Native of particular mountains in the Levant; of Ida 
in the island of Crete, of Parnassus, and of Lebanon, where 
it is said to grow in a region elevated 1000 fathom above the 
level of the sea, spreading itself along the ground, which it 
covers with its lively peach-coloured bloom, as soon as the 
snow has completely disappeared from the spot. The Che- 
valier Pallas received samples of it from the neighbourhood 
of Tefflis, the capital of Georgia in Asia, but seems to have 
mistaken it for a variety of AMYGDALUS incana, along with 
- which he has figured it in the same engraving. The wood 
of the bush has much the appearance of our common sloe; 
nor is the foliage thoroughly the almond kind, and the 
species may be looked upon as one of the connecting links 
between that genus and the plum. 
The specimens we have scen have been about 3 feet high; 
the stem not procumbent, as described to be iu its native 
abode, but had long branches which were so bent as to lie 
along the ground. The foliage is of a round oval form, ta- 
peed at each extremity, not more than one third of an inch 
ong, nerved, serrate, clothed with white down on the 
under surface, obsoletely petioled. Flowers generally in 
pairs, scarcely equal to the leaves, nearly sessile. Calyr 
tubular, with stelately expanded segments, which are 
bearded on the inside. Petals roundish, 2-3 times broader, 
but scarcely longer, than the segments of the calyx. Sta- 
mens 22-24, alternating in two rows, one above the other, 
upright, longer than the corolla: anthers round peltate, 
Germen nearly smooth, green: style higher than the sta- 
mens, reddish, upright, bearded below: stigma unilateral 
lobe-shaped. According to M. Labillarditre, the plum is 
ovate and red, with a very thin coat of flesh, and a stone 
in which the sutures have scarcely any projection. ` 
Introduced by Mons, Cels in 1802. Hardy. Flowers 
in April and May. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee 
and Kennedy, Hammersmith. 
. g The calyx dissected, to show the insertion of the stamens. 5 The 
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