a section of the genus with the flowers appearing before the 

 leaves; this they appi do, bat the interval betwi 



flowering and leafing is not very long. The Kew plant, 

 which was raised froi by Dr. Aitehison from 



the Kurrum Valley in Afghanistan at an elevation of about 

 6000 feet, flowered in May, 1887, and the leaves wore tally 

 developed in the following July. 



Descr, A shrub with stout slender divaricate branches, 

 quite glabrous, or puberulous in the leaf axils, buds and 

 sometimes the leaves beneath ; branches not spinescent. 

 /, .■'■•■ 8 two to two and a half inches long, variable in form, 

 ovate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic or subobovate, acute or 

 acuminate, serrulate; nerves eight to ten paii tiole 



one-sixth of an inch, ba ndular; stipules Blender, 



laciniate, caducous. Flowers often in pairs, very short ly 

 pedicelled. Ga - one-sixth to a quarter of an inch 

 long, tubular, cylindric, smooth, glabrous, st rial 

 rounded; lobes not half the length of the tube, ovate, 

 acute, hairy within. F>jf>ils one-sixth of an inch broad, 

 nearly orbicular, pink. N s about ■'. Ovary 



obliquely ovoid, quite glabrous, narrowed into the long 

 slender style. Drupe globose, as la? the finger-nail, 



red, juicy; stone nearly globose, a quarter to one-third of 

 an inch in diameter, quite smooth. — ./. 1). II. 



Fig. 1, Branch and stipules; 2, flower; 3, petal; 4 Mid 6, stamens j fi, pistil ; 

 7, stone; 8, drupe oldie natural size :— a/l LiUJiys. 7 vrg«d. 



