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this plant without fructification on the banks of the Attran, in the beginning of April. It is strikingly like Rumphius's 
plant, except m respect to the leaves, which in ours are very small and quite orbicular; and not lanceolate n a. 
sented in the figure, which has been pronounced bad by Dr. Blume, and which in fact does not agree with the eir 
text.  Vahl's Sperlingia (loc. cit. p. 112.) corresponds with Hoya, Br. 
Plate CXLII. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, opened. 
3. A pair of poll . i 3 
4 Pollicle Li pair of pollen masses, attached to their glands and corpusculum. 
6. 7. Reservoir opened, to show the internal structure. 
x. 
CERASUS Puppum. Tab. 143. 
Cerasus Puddum, DeCand. Prodr. vol. 2. p. 537. 
Prunus Puddum, Roxb. MSS. 
Prunus sylvatica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 92. 
Prunus, Hardwicke in Act. Soc. Asiat. vol. 6. p. 362. 
Crescit in montibus Hindustaniæ meridionalis, Napaliæ, Kamaon, Deyra, Sirmore, alibique, florens Octobre et 
Novembre, fructifera Aprili et Majo. 
Annon magna, trunco diametrum pedalem usque ad 2-pedalem emetiente. Rami cylindrici, epidermide lzevi, nitidå, cinereá vel brunneå. 
Fora sparsa, approximata, oblongo-lanceolata, attenuato-acuminata, subæqualitdr argutè et cuspidato-serrulata, basi obtusiuscula, 3-polli- 
caria, glaberrima, suprà parúm rugosa, lucida, subtüs opaca, minutim reticulata, costå gracili, elevatá, nervis obliquis, parallelis, nume- 
rosis, ad axillas concaviusculis. PETIOLUS cylindricus, feré pollicaris, supra angusté canaliculatus, apice pari uno duobusve glandularum 
planarum, sessilium, mucosarum. SripuLa nulle nisi squame gemmarum lanceolate, caducissimæ. Frores pulcherrimi, rosei, odorati, 
glabri, dispositi in corymbos ovatos, bracteatos, pedunculatos, ante evolutionem foliorum densissimè ad ramorum nudorum apices con- 
fertos. PEDUNCULI teretes, carnosi, rubicundi ; communis vix pollicaris, basi apiceque squamis gemmarum diutiùs persistentibus, 
magnis, membranaceis, spathulato-oblongis, acutis, extrorsúm glanduloso-dentatis, nunc subincisis, subunguicularibus, villis longis, canis 
ciliatis; partiales filiformes, unguiculares. CaLyx cylindrico-clavatus, levis, coloratus, unguem longus, 5-fidus; lacinie ovate, acute, 
patentes, demùm reflexæ. PETALA subrotundo-ovata, patentissima, venosa, unguicularia, apice 2-denticulata. FILAMENTA numerosa, 
levia, patentia, exteriora petalorum longitudinem «equantia; antheræ ovate. Ovarium leve; stylus staminibus parüm brevior; stigma 
stellatim 3-dentatum. Drura parva, subovato-rotundata, levis, pendula, hinc flava, indè rubra, putamine ovato, cuspidulato, rugoso, 
parietibus crassissimis. 
'This beautiful tree was discovered on the mountains between Hurdwar and Srinaghur by my highly esteemed friend 
Major General Hardwicke, who published the following short account of it in the Asiatic Researches, vol. 6. p. 363. 
* Prunus.—A cherry tree of common size, found in several places between the mountains. Leaves irregularly 
alternate, petioled, serrulated, smooth, shining, with two globular glands at the base. ‘The fruit in clusters, about 
the size of the black Hertfordshire cherry, of a roundish oval shape, acid and adstringent in a ripe state, and of a 
dull red colour. The nut furrowed and thick. The wood is much esteemed among the travelling Fakeers for 
bludgeons and walking-sticks, and known in common by the name of Puddum." 
The tree was found about the same time by Francis Pierard, Esq. formerly in the civil service of the Honourable 
Company, and now residing at Kew, to whose zeal in the, cause of botany the Garden of Calcutta is indebted for 
several very valuable plants, among which I may name the interesting Dendrobium Pierardi, and Pierardia sapida. 
Both these gentlemen found the tree on the mountains about Hurdwar. I have also met with it there, and likewise in 
the valley called Deyra, in fruit in April. In Nipal it is very common, and when in flower in the months of November 
and December it is a most charming object, being entirely covered with its innumerable rounded clusters of rose- 
coloured blossoms, which completely conceal the branches. At all other seasons it forms a large, rounded, shady tree. 
The fruit is of the size of a very small cherry, yellow on one side, and dark red on the other, owing to one half of it 
taste is pleasant and refreshing, although never quite sweet. In the less elevated regions of Deyra 
better than it does in Nipal, and both I and the party who did me the honour to accompany me 
almost as much as we should have done had we been encamped 
only ripening ; its 
this cherry ripens i 
on my excursion in that valley in 1825, enjoyed it yn ' A : 
under a grove of cherry trees in Europe. The wood is reckoned very useful in Nipal ; specimens of it and of about five 
hundred other sorts of wood from the East Indies, which the Honourable Court of Directors of the Company have 
placed at the disposal of the Society for the Encouragement ot Arts, are now in à some gh Hå ia ki 
be fully reported upon by the highly esteemed and excellent Secretary of that Society 4 fa me de posce 
form part of their Transactions, I beg to refer my readers for an account of the woods of most of the trees describe 
in this work. 
Plate CXLIII. Fig. 1. A flower opened. 2. The stone of the jn 
Vor. II. , 
