Tas. 8034. 
PRUNUS penpvra. 
Japan. 
Rosacea. Tribe PRuNEX. 
Prunus, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609. 
Prunus pendula, Mawim. in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersbourg, vol. xxix. 
(1884), p. 98; Mél. Biol. vol. xi. p. 690; Sargent in Garden & Forest, 
vol. i. (1888) p. 198, fig. 36, vol. ii. p. 487 (figure of an old tree). Kahne, 
Deutsch. Dendrol. p. 307 ; Dippel, Laubholzk. vol. iii. p. 618; Cyclop. Am. 
Hort. p. 1452, fig. 1996; affinis P. inciso, Thunb., sed innovationibus 
pilosis, foliis infra tantum in nervis pilosis, floribus numerosioribus, 
sepalis denticulatis et stylo piloso differt. 
Arbuscula vel arbor media, ramis flexuosis magis minusve pendulis cortice 
fusco vel fusco-nigricante tectis, ramulis juventute pilosis gracilibus. 
Folia post flores evoluta, anguste elliptica vel elliptico-lanceolata, apice 
basique acuta, 13-2 poll. longa, 10-12 lin. lata, ineequaliter argute serrata, 
serraturis apice glanduloso-incrassatis, supra jam in gemma _ prater 
costam parce pilosam glabra, subtus in costa nervisque adpresse pilosa 
tandem glabrata; nervi secundarii subrecti, obliqui, utrinque circiter 
10-12; petiolus gracilis, molliter pilosus, 3-6 lin. longus; stipule subu- 
late, breviter glanduloso-fimbriate, ad 5 lin. longee, decidue. lores in 
racemos abbreviatos 5-2-floros brevissime pedunculatos vel sessile 
bracteatos dispositi; pedunculi vel racemi basi perulis rotundatis vel late 
ovatis subcoriaceis nigro-fuscis pilosulis demum deciduis cincti; bractez 
lanceolatze vel subulatie, pilose, longitudine valde varie, caduce ; pedicelli 
+3 poll. longi, patule pilosi. Receptaculum campanulatum, 13-2 lin. 
longum, pilosulum. Sepala ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, acuta, minute 
denticulata, 1-13 lin. longa, pilosula. Petala rosea, rotundato-obovata 
vel obovata, apice leviter emarginata. Stamina inzequilonga, quam petala 
multo breviora. Ovarium glabrum; stylus stamina paulo superans, basi 
densiuscule patule pilosus. Drupa pisiformis, nigra.—P. ttosakura, Sieb. 
Syn. Pl. Oecon. in Verhandl. Batav. Genootsch. vol. xii. (1830), p. 68, 
no. 8360 (nomen). P. subhirtella, Miq. Prolus. Fl. Jap. in Ann. Mus. Bot. 
Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 91 (excl. var.). P. subhirtella var. pendula, Usef. 
Pl. Japan, p. 153, fig. 620. P. sp. Savatier, Livres Kwa-wi, p. 72 
(Kwa-wi, ed. 1759, vol.i.t. 3). Cerasus pendula rosea, Flor. Mag. vol. x. 
t. 536. C. herincquiana, Lav. in Arb. Segrez. p. 117, t. xxxv. 
Prunus pendula, according to Maximowicz, has been 
found in the wild state in the mountain forests of 
Central Nipon; but of this no specimens are at Kew. 
It is not uncommonly cultivated in gardens and near 
temples in Japan, and a good figure of it was pub- 
lished in the Kwa-wi as early as 1759. It is called 
there Ito sakura, evidently in allusion to the long, 
slender branches, ito meaning thread, whilst sakura 
is the name of the cherry tree. Siebold, therefore, took it 
SepTtEMBER lst, 1905. 
