Tas. 5934. 
PRUN US CERASIFERA. 
Native country unknown. 
Nat, Ord. Rosace#.—Tribe Prunes. 
Genus Prunus, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Pl., vol. i, p. 609). 
Prunus cerasifera ; ramis inermibus, ramulis glaberrimis, foliis elliptico- 
obovatis acutis serrulatis subtus glabris, floribus subsolitariis v. in 
ramis abbreviatis fasciculatis pedunculatis, pedunculo glaberrimo, 
calycis lobis lanceolatis v. ovatis reflexis, petalis obovato-oblongis orbi- 
' culatisve, drupis globosis basi intrusis rubris, carne flavo putamine 
ovoideo acuto adherenti. 
Prunus cerasifera, Ehrhart Beitrage, vol. iv. p.17; Willd. Sp. Pl., vol. ii. 
p- 997; Porret, Dict., vol. v. p. 678; Persoon Synops., vol. ii. p. 35; 
Grenier et Godron, Flore de France, vol. i. p. 514; Koch, Dendrologia, 
vol. i. p. 97. 
Myrozpatan, Duham. Arbr., vol. ii. p. 111, t. 20, f. 15. 
Prunus Mirobalana, Loiseleur, Nouveau Duhamel, vol. iv. p. 184, t. 57, f. 1, 
et p. 198, t. 5. 
Prunus domestica, var. Myrobalana, Linn., Sp. Pl., No. 680; Loudon, 
Arboret. Britt., vol. ii. p. 688, ii. and vi. tab. 93. 
The beautiful Cherry Plum, or “ Myrobalan” Plum, the 
“Cerisette” of the French and “Kirschpflaume” of the 
Germans, fruits very rarely indeed in England; ripe fruit 
was, however, sent to Sir W. J. Hooker, in July, 1864, 
which was drawn for the Botanical Magazine by Mr. Fitch, 
but unfortunately no note was attached to the drawing, either 
of the place where it grew or the person who communicated 
it. Under these circumstances, [I procured, early in the 
present year, flowering specimens from the named collection 
in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens at Chiswick, 
which herewith accompany the figure of the fruit. It will 
be remarked however, that whilst the lower (fruiting) spe- 
cimen has solitary fruits, and consequently had solitary 
_ flowers in all probability, the flowers of the upper specimens 
are fascicled on abbreviated branches. All descriptions of 
Prunus cerasifera agree in attributing to it solitary or rarely 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1871. 
