organ varies much in length, but in both the cultivated 
specimens and in wild ones collected by Maximowicz, it is 
much longer, and quite or nearly glabrous. P. subhirtella is, 
according to specimens in the Kew Herbarium, enumerated 
by Maximowicz asa native of the mountains of Nippon, and 
as cultivated at Nagasaki. Miquel gives three Japanese 
names for it, Iteo Sakura, Hisakura, and Sakako. 
The specimen here figured is from a small plant received 
at the Royal Gardens in 1895 from Professor Sargent, 
Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, U.S.A., and 
which flowered in the open air in April of the present 
year, and was in full leaf in May. 
Deser.—A small tree? branches suberect. Leaves ap- 
pearing after the flowering, two to three inches long, 
ovate, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, doubly glandular- 
serrate, dark green above, with twelve to fourteen pairs of 
nerves, paler beneath, base rounded or cuneate, eglandulose ; 
petiole one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long; stipules 
subulate, entire; scales of bud and leaves short, obtuse, 
pale yellow brown. Flowers in fascicles of three to five, 
produced before the leaves expand, white, about three- 
fourths of an inch broad ; outer bud-scales as of the leaf- 
buds, inner small, herbaceous, often irregularly three- 
lobed, glandular-ciliate ; pedicels usually rather longer than 
the calyx-tube, laxly hairy. Calyx-tube cylindric, inflated 
at the base, green, laxly hairy; lobes about a third 
shorter than the tube, ovate-oblong, subserrate, ciliolate. 
Petals more or less irregularly crenate or lobulate. 
Stamens in two series. Ovary and style glabrous.— 
é: Don 
Fig. 1, Inner floral bud-scale; 2, flower unexpanded ; 3, vertical section 
of calyx-tube showing stamens and ovary ; 4 and 5, anthers :—All enlarged. 
