

Prunics.] LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 317. 



nica, Miq., hut calyx very different and drupe larger. Kurz however refers to this- 

 Ixjth P.javanica and Junghnhniana oi Miquel (Joum, As, Soc 

 Andaman Reports, ed. ii. 37). 



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\ .12. P. acuminata, Wall PI As. Rar. ii. 7S, t. 181 (Oerasus 

 turoiighout, leaves lanceolate caudate-aciiminate quite entire or remot 

 racemes axillary solitary or fa&cicled very slender, petals ohlong, sta 

 16. Wall Cat. 719. C. inteLrerrima. Wall Cat. 722. 



a"bout 



Temperate Central and Eastern Himalaya, from Nepal and Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., 

 \ to MiSHMi. Khasia jVTts. alt. 4000 ft. 



A tree 30-40 ft, ; branches slender. Leaves 4-7 in., flat, smooth on both sur- 

 feces, hardly shining above, base rounded or acute, sometimes dotted beneath with 

 minute glands, or glands or few and scattered ; nerves 8-10 pair, obliquely ascend- 

 ing, slender but evident ; petiole \ in., eglandular; stipules linear. Racemes 3-5 in., 

 «nbereet or drooping, many-flowered; p^icels Jin., slender; bracts minute. Flowers 

 i-f in, diam., yellowish -white. Calyx-tuhe broadly campanulate ; limb patent, ob- 

 scui-ely 5-toothed. Ovary villous. Drupe ovoid, subacute, \ in. long; stone t hi n^ 

 quite smooth, 



j^ T-"^. P, punctata, Hook.f. <§• T. in Herb. Ind, Or. (Cerasus) ; quite ^^la- 

 orous, leaves oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate quite entire or serrulate dotted 

 ^th minute glands beneath, racemes subcorymbifonn, stamens aTx>ut 30, 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft., Jenkins, etc. 



A shrub or small tree with slender pendulous branchlets, the youngest puboru- 

 l* J'^^v^ 3-5 in., caudate points curved very long obtuse, base acute, smooth 

 on both surfaces, shining above ; nerves 8-10 pairs, slender, obliquely arched; pe- 

 J*<^le A in., eglandular ; stipules Aliform. Racemes axillary, soliuiry, shorter than 

 ine leaves, 8-10-flowered ; peduncle very slender; pedicels \'^ in., subcorymbose to- 

 ^J^sthetopof the peduncle. Flowers i in. diam. Calyx-tuhe obconic ; lobes 5. 

 funded, ciliate. " Petals orbicular, ciliate. Ovaru glabrous. Drupe globose ; stone 

 «^^-waUed, quite smooth. 



\} 14. P, Jenkinsil, Hook. f. ^- Tlmm. in Herk Iml Or. {Cerasui) ; leaves 



•aciuninate 'a^"»^«»+^ imdnffitA flhinmf/ pMinnoxiiRT. racemes ax- 



^^ Short cylindric dense-flowered pubescent, stamens about 50, 



Assam, Jenlcim; at Choorpura, (Upper Assam), Griffith. 

 ..^'■^"'<^'*^s black, stout, glabrous. Leaves 5-7 in., tip obtuse, base acute, red-brown 

 joje when dry, paler beneath, margin undulate, teeth when present remote; 

 f^es 10-15 pair, obliquely arching; petiole ^ in., eglandular; stipules linear-Ian- 

 W ; • /^^^^^^^ 1^-21 in., strict, erect, usually densely clothed with flowers to the 

 tnrV *^^ is enclosed in concave orbicular scales ; pedicels very smooth. Calyx-tuhe 

 ^^laate; lobes rounded, ciliate. Petals smoW, orbicular, erose. Ovary glabrous. 

 on^Ti^^^^ ^'^^ s^one * in., broadly ovoid, obtuse, rugose, and with a thick ridge on 

 ^^'^^ «»de, walls very tl^ck and hard. 



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pjj^^i<iuous leaved trees. Leaves alternate, glandular-fringed or -serrajc ; sti- 

 toS'?«*e'turbinate7rWobedrso produced into oblong 



— •"'iccucu ueey. jjer/cf*- iiueruine, j^iciiiuiiMvi x..^^.^^~~- -- — - , -- 



conspicuous, gland-senate. Floicers in racemes or corymbs, sub-umsexnal. 



tS % P^**^^- Stmneiis 20-80, in one series, filaments incurved; anthers 

 short '^''^ 1? '"^itt a slender stvle and usually not perfecting, or twu with 



te^l *" ^"."^ ^^yl^s and lander stigmas, one or both perfecting ; ovules 2, colla- 

 <iP^"J^ous. Fruit, an oblong drupe ; pericarp thin ; stone rather bony, f'o- 

 ^ ««« thick, oblong. DiSTEiB. Two Indian species. 



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