[t may be worth noticing in this place, that Mr. Fortune 
found in the north of China, but did not succeed in bringing 
home alive, a second Asiatie species of Amelanchier, much 
handsomer than A. japonica, and perfectly distinct. In his 
herbarium it is called a dwarf ornamental shrub. It has long 
racemes of flowers, with large white petals, and is perfectly 
smooth in all its parts. Its calyx is partially petaloid, which 
must add considerably to the beauty of the plant. It may be 
thus defined. 
A. racemosa ; foliis glaberrimis junioribus oblongis mucro- 
natis basi angustatis, racemis multifloris glabris, calycis 
laciniis ovatis acutis petaloideis serratis, carpellis nudis. 
