314 Li. bosacej:. (J. D. Hooker.) IPrunus, 



2. P. tomentosa, Thunb. Fl Jap. 203 ; branchlets tomentose, leaves 

 shortly petioled orbicular-ovate acuminate crenate-serrate sparingly hairy above 

 densely and softly so beneath, flovrers solitary pedicelled, calyx-tube atyrtly 

 cylindric glabrous. P. trichocarpa, Bungej En. Plant. Chin. Bor. 96 ; S%eh. if 

 Zucc, FL Japmi, t, 22 ; Cerasus tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 715. 



North West Himalaya ; Kashmir, alt. 5-6000 ft. Thomson. Western Tibet, 

 Ladak, Moorcroft. — Distrib. N. China. 



A shrub, with slender spreading branches. Leaves l-lj in., membranous, 

 almost velvety beneath, base rounded, tip sometimes prolonged ; petiole very short, 

 eglandular, tomentose ; stipules slender, laciniate. Flowers axillary. Calyx-ivhe 5 in. ; 

 lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire. Tetals small. Fruit ellipsoid, young hairy 

 pointed, ripe obtuse compressed, 



S'i'^^S. p. rufa, Wall. Cat. 721 (Oerasus) ; young branches densely tomentose, 

 leaves elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrate glabrate, V^^Z. 

 eglandular pubescent, flowers axillary solitary or fascicled, calyx-tube urceoiate . 



glabrous. P. ferruginea, Wall. MSS. 



Central and Eastern temperate Himalaya, Nepal, Wallich: Sixxw, alt- 

 10-12,000 ft. J. D. H. Bhotan, Griffith. 



A small tree, 15-20 ft., branchlets woody. Leaves 1-4 in., narrowed ^^^J^^^ 

 short petiole, very sharply serrate, midrib puberulous above pubescent or gia 

 beneath; nerves reticulated ; petiole ^ in. ; bud-scales linear, membranous, glan 

 lar-serrate ; stipules filiform laciniate. Flowers pink ; peduncles glabrous, longe^ 

 than the petioles. Calyx-tube ^ in., ventricose at the base, then contracted, ^ ^^ 

 spreading, lobes broad short subacute crenulate. Petals small, orbicular, 

 ellipsoid, on stout lengthened pedicels, red, fleshy, stonerugged. 



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Floivcfrs appearing hefore the leaves. 



landu- 



buds. Lea 



4. P. Jacquemontii, Hook. f. ; 'dwarf, leaves small elliptic or obovate 

 acute sharply serrate glabrous or minutely puberulous beneath, Petiole 

 lar, stipules setaceous, drupe globose, stone smooth. Amygdalus humilis, x."j^»^- 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx, 44, not of Bunge. 



Western Himalaya; in the Tibetan region, Jacquemont. Gurwhai, -ai » 

 alt. 9000 ft., Edgworth ; Niti, 11,500 ft., Strachy and Winterhottom. Kcxawce, 

 12,000 ft., T. Thomson. ^ .^^^03 



Branches strict, slender, divaricating, glabrous, or puberulous in the ^^ . .^j^Q^aU 

 "^jcaves 1 in., variable in breadth, from linear-oblong to ^^°°^^^^ ^° ^^arly 

 but usually elliptic, narrowed into the short petiole, rather coriaceous ; ^^^^l^^as^ 

 straight, very oblique ; petiole puberulous. {Calyx-tube glabrous except at ^ . 

 ■within; lobes short, crenulate. Petals short, obovate. Ovary ^^^^^^^'x^^q^sA 

 Drupe very shortly pedicelled, fleshy in Jacquemont's specimen, dry gl<> 



cuspidate in Thomson's, stone smooth. , leaves; 



I refer this doubtfully to the section with the flowers appearing before tne^,^ ' 



the specimens being in fruit only. This is the species mentioned by ^"^'^c^^ the 

 Flor. 194, under P. PtwWww) as P. humilis, Bunge, of China, and found ^^^^^^. 

 Chenab to the Jumna, but it differs much from Bunge's humilis in ^^®7^f^g nam«of 

 duncles, and much coarser serratures of the leaves. Edgworth gave it tn ^^^ 

 Amygdalus humilis, without reference to Bunge's species of Prunus of that n 



5. P. Puddum, Eoxb. MSS. in Heib. Wall. ; arboreous, ^^"^J^^x, 

 oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate sharply serrate, petiole '^ ^^ petat 

 flowers solitary fascicled or umbelled, calyx-tube narrowly ^^^^^^piJ Bril* 

 obovate or linear-oblong. Brande's For. Fhr. 194; Kurz^ For. J^l^'jj^'^, 

 ^Mm.,i. 434, R cerasoides, Daw, ProJr. 239, P. sylvatica, iJo^i*- ^^, ^luA, 

 601. Cerasus Puddum, Wall. PL 4s. Rar. ii. 37, t. 143 j Cat. 714. U. ^ 

 Ham. in Dmi. Prodr. 239. 



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