ROSACEAE. — PRUNUS 255 
In the type the shoots are hirsute only toward the apex; the leaves are oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, usually 6-9, or even to 14 cm. long and 2.5-4(-5) cm. broad, 
pubescent on the midrib above and sometimes also on the lateral veins; the sepals 
are 3-4 mm. long; the fruit in the fresh state is 9 mm. in diameter. The petals of 
the type are two-lobed as in the variety. 
68. Prunus subhirtella Miquel inAnn. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. II. 91 (1865), emen- 
danda. — Hooker f.in Bot. Mag. CXXII. t. 7508 (1896). — Koehne in Mitt. 
Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVIII. 173 (1909). — Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII. 115 
(1908), etiam huc pertinere videtur. 
Prunus subhirtella, var. oblongifolia Miquel, 1. ¢., quoad ramos floriferos (rami 
steriles foliati ad P. Buergerianam Miquel e subgenere Pado pertinent). 
Prunus incisa Maximowicz in Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Pétersbourg, XXIX. 99; 
in Mél. Biol. XI. 692 (non Thunberg) (1833); pro parte, saltem quoad 
synonymum P. subhirtella Miquel et e *corymbis praecocibus." 
Prunus pendula, var. ascendens Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. VII. 103 (1893), an 
hue pertinet? 
Prunus Herincquiana, var. ascendens Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 608 
(1906). 
Prunus itosakra, B subhirtella Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIII. 180 (1908), 
est eadem quae P. subhirtella Makino. 
The examination of all the specimens in the Rijks-Herbarium at Leyden designated 
by Miquel himself as P. subhirtella has given the following result: there are four 
flowering and five leafy branches of the plant figured later by Hooker as P. sub- 
hirtella, one flowering and one leafy branch of P. Herincquiana Lavallée and four 
leafy branches of P. pendula Maximowicz. The variety oblongifolia Miquel con- 
sists of six flowering branches of typical P. subhirtella and four leafy branches of 
P. Buergeriana Miquel. Therefore there can be no doubt that Miquel intended 
the name P. subhirtella for the same plant which later Hooker considered P. sub- 
hirtella, but that he added to his P. subhirtella by mistake wrongly determined 
branches of other species. I therefore think that the name P. subhirtella with 
the authority of Miquel can be retained for the species in question. Although 
aximowicz refers P. subhirtella as a synonym to P. incisa Thunberg, no reason for 
this is apparent, as none of Miquel’s specimens belongs to P. incisa. 
Japan: I have seen quite a number of specimens without locality or collector, 
© specimens collected by Siebold, Buerger and, as far as I could make it out, by 
Sahsabro (Miquel gives Saksako as the Japanese name of the plant). Further- 
more specimens from Hondo, environs of Hirosaki, May 27, 1905, U. Faurie (No. 
6700); Mt. Shikosan, May 3. 1907, U. Faurie (No. 100). 
Prunus subhirtella, var. fukubana Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII. 118 
(1908), ab autore dicitur forsan Prunus ltosakura, var. ascendens Makino X 
Prunus subhirtella Miquel. 
Prunus itosakra, y ascendens, subvar. amabilis Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 
XXIII. 181 (1909) an eadem? 
Flores plus minus pleni, purpurascenti-rosei (Makino), v. plerumque pleni albo- 
Tosei (Koidzumi). “Ovaries 1-2 in a flower” (Makino). i 
In the Herbarium at Leyden I have seen a branch with double flowers belonging 
to P. subhirtella. It was originally labelled Cerasus itosakura flore semipleno, and 
then determined by Miquel as P. subhirtella. The number of petals was 13-14, 
ut 11 mm. long and 7 mm. broad, the number of stamens 61 and of pistils 2. 
The style was glabrous; it is also in typical P. subhirtella sometimes nearly glabrous. 
akino describes the style of his var. fukubana as “thinly pilose- 
