general footstalk (peduncle) on which the short partial ones 
(pedicles) of the seedvessel stand. "This enlarges in dulcis 
after the flower decays into an unevenly roundish oblong 
fleshy red fruit, which is eaten both in China and Japan. 
We had no opportunity of deseribing the flowers of the 
present plant after the draughtsman had done with the 
specimen. : 
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NOTE. 
In a recent number of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine we find that the 
Prunus japonica of the 27th article (Volume I.) of this work, is asserted to 
be the AMYGDALUS pumila of Linnzus; and the stone of the fruit to have 
the character which marks it for a congener of AMYGDALUS, and not of 
Prunus. On both these points we shall make some remarks in the Ap- 
peudix to the present Volume. 
