Tab. G976. 

 PRUNUS Jacquemontii. 



Native of the North-West Himalaya. 



Nat. Ord. Eosace.e. — Tribe PBUV&& 

 Genus Pbcscs, L. ; {Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 609.) 



Pbtjkus (Amygdalus) Jacquemontii ; frutex fere glaberrimus, foliis breviter 

 petiolatis oblongis lanceolatis ellipticis subobovatisve acutis argute serruhtis 

 glabris v. subtus puberulis, stipulis parvis laceris deciduis, petiolo eglanduloso, 

 tforibus pra'cocibus ad axilhu sub-binis breviter pedicellatis, calycis tubo 

 cylindraceo basi rotundato, lobis brevibus ovatis acutis, petalis orbicularibus 

 obovatisve roseis, ovario glaberrimo, stylo elongato, drupa parva globosa, 

 pntamioe subgloboso lan-i. 



P. Jacquemontii, Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 314. 



P. bumilis, Brandis Fur. Flor. N.-W. and Central India, p. 191 {non Bunge). 



Amygdalus bumilis, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Sue. vol. xx. p. 41. 



A very common shrub in the drier regions of the North- 

 West Himalaya, forming a bush bis to ten feet high, from the 

 province of Garwhal (east of Nepal) westward, at elevations 

 of 9600 to 12,000 feet, extending northwards into Tibet 

 and westwards into Afghanistan. It was first recognized 

 by Edgeworth, who published it as Amygdalus humilis, but 

 without any reference to Bunge's Primus humilis of North 

 China, which, however, so much resembles P. Jacquemontii 

 that Brandis Las alluded to the latter in his Forest Flora as 

 being the same with the Chinese plant. This latter refer- 

 ence tends to show that Edgeworth may have by oversight 

 omitted to cite Bunge's plant as a synonym. There are, 

 indeed, some differences between Edgeworth's description 

 of his A. humilis and the plant now figured, for that author 

 describes the calyx-lobes as crenulate. Unfortunately 

 no specimens of Edgeworth's plant exist in our Herbaria. 

 Bunge's P. humilis may at once be distinguished by the 

 long fascicled pedicels and turbinate calyx with retlexed 

 lobes. 



In the Flora of British India I have referred P. Jacque- 

 montii (which I had then seen only in fruit) with doubt to 



JAN. 1st, 1888. 



