up as P. itosakura, but as he gave no proper description, 
this name is generally disregarded. It was subsequently 
described as P. subhirtella, Mig. Siebold introduced 
it into Kurope about 1863, under the name of Cerasus 
pendula rosea. When Maximowicz revised the Chinese 
and Japanese species of the genus Prunus, he adopted the 
name P. pendula for our plant in preference to Miquel's 
name P. subhirtella, as he thought that Miquel had con- 
fused several distinct species under his P. subhirtella. 
How far Maximowicz was justified in his assumption 
cannot be established without the examination of Miquel’s 
specimens; in any case Maximowicz’s name has_ so 
generally been accepted ever since that it would be 
inconvenient to give it up without the most urgent 
reasons. 
There are several varieties of P. pendula with flowers 
ranging from the palest pink to saturated rose colour, and 
it is very probable that the plant described and figured 
here is merely a state, with pendulous branches, of a species 
with normally erect branches, analogous habit variations 
occurring in several species of Prunus. The specimen 
from which the plate was drawn was raised at Kew from 
seeds received from Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, 
in 1890, The little tree is now about nine feet high, and 
flowers profusely in March. 
Descr—A small or middle-sized tree. Branches spread- 
ing, flexuous, pendulous, hairy when young; bark be- 
coming smooth, light or dark brown to almost black. 
Leaves unfolding after the flowers, narrowly elliptic or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, sharply and un- 
equally serrate, serratures thickened at the tips, with or 
without one or two glands near the base, glabrous above 
except midrib, adpressedly hairy below, particularly on 
the nerves, more or less glabrescent, lateral nerves ten to 
twelve on each side, rather oblique, straight and parallel ; 
petiole slender, three to six lines long, softly hairy ; 
stipules subulate, glandular-fimbriate, deciduous, about as 
long as the petioles. Flowers five to two in very short, 
shortly peduncled or sessile racemes, springing from buds 
with dark, puberulous, rounded scales; peduncle, where 
developed, pedicels and the receptacle softly hairy ; 
pedicels three to six lines long; bracts caducous, lan- 
