Tas. 7908. 
PRUNUS susBHirteqta. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Prunes. 
Genus Prunus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609.) 
Prunus (Cerasus) subhirtella; arbuscula, cortice pallide brunnea, ramis 
patulis, squamis gemmarum brevibus coriaceis obtusis, foliis ovatis 
acuminatis caudato-acumivatisve argute duplicato glanduloso-serratis 
_viridibus glabris basi cuneatis v. rotundatis nudis v. 1-2-glandulosis 
subtus secus nervos utrinque 12-14 pilosulis, petiolo brevi hirsuto, stipulis 
lanceolatis v. subulatis incigo-serratis, floribus precocibus 3-5-nis 3-? 
poll. latis, squamis gemmarum intimis herbaceis cuneiformibus 3-lobis 
glanduloso-ciliatis, pedicellis calyce paullo longioribus pilosulis, calycis 
tubo glaberrimo v. parce pileso basi tumido lobis ovatis subserratis 
ciliolatis longiore, petalis albis inzsqualiter crenatis v. lobulatis, staminitus 
Te ovario styloque glaberrimis, fructu immaturo ellipsoidev- 
globoso, 
P. subbirtella, Miguel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 91 (Prol. FI. 
Japon. p. 23). Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. p. 118. 
The Eastern Asiatic and Japanese species of the 
tribe of Prunew require a much closer study than they 
have hitherto received, nor is it till very recently that 
materials for their full investigation have been received 
in European Herbaria. Forbes and Hemsley in their 
enumeration of Chinese, &c., plants (Journ. Linn. Soc. 
vol. xxiii. p. 218 and seq.) enumerate nine species of 
the tribe as Chinese, of which four are also Japanese; and 
Franchet and Savatier, in their enumeration of Japanese 
plants, give six as natives of that Archipelago. From 
most of those inhabiting both countries P. subhirtella 
differs in its habit of flowering before leafing; in other 
respects it approaches nearest to P. japonica, Thunb. 
(Amygdalus pumila, Sims, t. 2176). ce 
Miquel describes a variety of P. subhirtella (oblongifolia) 
with oblong leaves. Of this there is an authentically named 
specimen in the Kew Herbarium, with leaves three inches’ 
long. He describes the calyx-tube of P. subhirtella as 
villosulous and only one-twelfth of an inch long. This 
Decrmper Ist, 1896. 
