on the mountains of N. China and S. Mongolia ; and as 

 for the other fruit mentioned, it is difficult to say what 

 is meant, for Father Parennin gives no native name. Per- 

 haps it may be Sorb us Aucuparia." 



There are many specimens of P. humilis in the Kew 

 Herbarium, and amongst these one from T. L. Bullock, 

 Esq., who describes the shrub as a foot high, growing 

 in the upper part of Mt. Conolly, Peking, and said to bear 

 a fruit called Oliura; and another from Mr. John Eoss, 

 who also calls it a shrub, but gives Ow-li as its name. 

 It has been suggested that it is the parent of the cultivated 

 Primus japonica. 



The plant from which the specimen figured was taken 

 was raised in the Royal Gardens, from seeds sent by Dr. 

 Bretschneider from Peking, which flowered in the open 

 ground in 1886, but did not ripen its fruit till 1892, 

 when the bushes of it, which had attained 3 to 4 feet in 

 height, were covered with fruit. I have retained the name 

 of P. humilis given by Bunge, though it has been changed 

 into P. Bungei by Walpers, because of there being an 

 earlier Cerasus humilis, Moris, a native of Sardinia, but 

 there is reason to believe that this latter plant is only a 

 variety of P. prostrata, Labill. 



Descr. — A shrub, attaining four feet in height, with 

 slender erect branches covered with dark brown bark. 

 Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly petioled, 

 elliptic ovate, subacute, serrulate, bright green above, nerves 

 reticulate; stipules linear, strongly glandular- ciliate. 

 Floivers half an inch in diameter, solitary or in pairs on a 

 short peduncle ; pedicel £ in. long, bracteate at the base. 

 Calyx campanulate, 5-lobedto the middle; lobes as long as 

 the tube, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Petals about twice as 

 long as the calyx-lobes, orbicular, crenulate, with a short 

 red daw. Stamens rather longer than the petals. 

 Ovaries one or two. Drupe half an inch long, ovoidly 

 globose, bright red ; stone smooth, elliptic ovoid, turgid. 



Fig. 1, Portion of branch with petiole and stipules; 2, flower with the 

 petals removed; 3, petal; 4, ovaries; 5, section of ovary -.—All enlarged. 



