by Hohenacker, and in others from the Copenhagen 
Gardens. 
Prunus divaricata was introduced into England in 1822, 
according to Loudon, probably from the Dorpat Gardens, 
when under the direction of its describer Ledebour, and is 
a small tree ten to twelve feet high and broad, forming a 
hemispherical mass on the ground with a singularly grace- 
ful ramification; according to Boissier, it has a very wide 
geographical range, from Macedonia to the Caucasus and 
Northern Persia. The specimen at Kew was procured by 
the late Curator, Mr. J. Smith, from Messrs. Osborne, of 
Fulham, about thirty-eight years ago. 
‘Desor. A small tree, ten to twelve feet high, branching 
from the very base, the branches numerous, slender, wide- 
spreading, the lower lying almost flat on the ground; the 
whole forming a hemispherical or rounded mass ; branchlets 
slender, glabrous. Leaves appearing with the flowers, 
when young lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, pubescent in 
the midrib and nerves beneath, when fully formed two by 
one and a half inch long and broad, more ovate and often 
subcordate at the base, finely serrate, and glabrous beneath ; 
petiole slender, glabrous. lowers three-quarters of an 
inch in diameter, solitary from the flowering buds, pe- 
duncle short, glabrous. Calyx with ovate-lanceolate re- 
curved lobes. Petals rounded, concave. Stamens white 
with yellow anthers. Ovaries one or two. Fruit one inch 
long, ellipsoid or globose, base not intruded, yellow; stone 
(from native specimens) half an inch long, broadly ellipsoid, 
-compressed but turgid, obtuse at both ends, subacute 
along one margin, and with a sharp-edged groove along the 
other; faces quite smooth.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower cut vertically ; 2, ditto w 
3, stamens; 4, stigma :—all enlarged. ith petals removed, showing two ovaries ; 
