Tap. 8260, 
PRUNUS saponica. 
China and Japan, 
RosackaE. Tribe PRUNEAE. 
Pronvs, Linn,; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609, 
Prunus (Cerasus) japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 1784, p. 201; Sieb. et Zuce. FI, 
Jap. p. 172, t. 90; Bot. Reg. t. 27 (var. floribus p!enis); Schneider, I71. 
Handb. Laubholz. k vol. i. p. 612; affinis P. humili, Bunge, sed ramis 
glabris, foliis majoribus, petal's integris differt. 
Frutex, ramis et ramulis glabris, coitice cinereo-fusco glabro. Folia ovaio- - 
> lanccolata vel lanceolata, basi rotundata vel cun ata, acuminata vel acuta, 
usque ad 7 cm. longa et 3 cm. lata, duplo-serrata, utrinque glabra, nervis 
utrinque 3-6 supra leviter immersis subtus elevatis; pctioli usque ad 
7 mm. longi. Stipulae lineari-setaceae, circiter 5 mm. longae, ciliatae. 
Gemmae subglobosae. Pedunculi 1-8-flori; bracteae oblongae, obtusae, 
serrulatae, S’eceptaculum subcampanulatum, 2 mm. longum, glabrum. 
Calycis segmenta ovato-oblonga, obtusa, 2-3 mm. longa, 2 mm. Jata, 
patentia, glanduloso-ciliata. Peta/a obovata, basi attenuata, 7 mm. longa, 
5 mm. lata, glabra, rosea, horizontaliter patentia. Staminu circiter 25; 
filamenta glabra, inaequalia, suberecta. Carpella 1-2, oblique elliptica, 
superre parce pilosa: stylus 5 mm. longus, inferne parce pilosus, superne 
glaber, stigmate parvo cap.tato. Drupa globosa, vix ultra 1 cm. diametro, 
saturate coccinea.—Prunus glundulosa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 202, quoad 
plantam florcntem, fide Maxim, P. sinensis, Pers. Syn. PI. vol. ii. p. 86. 
LP. chinensis, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1104? Cerasus japonica et C. glandulosa, 
Loisel. in Nouv. Duham. vol. v. p, &8. Amygdalus ;umila, Sims in Bot. 
Mag. t. 2176; non Lour.—J. Hurcuinson. 
Prunus japonica is nearly allied to P. humilis, Bunge, 
figured in this work at plate 7335, but is readily distinguished 
by the glabrous branches, larger leaves and entire petals. 
More familiar in its double-flowered form, which has long 
been one of the most popular of hardy shrubs, especially for 
forcing into early flower for greenhouse decoration, the 
species in its natural condition, here figured, is nevertheless 
very pretty, and has, in its bright red cherries, an attraction 
which its more showy variety does not possess. The double- 
flowered form, figured at plate 2176 of this work under the 
name Amygdalus pumila, is said by Bretschneider to have 
been in cultivation in the Jardin des Piantes at the end of 
the eighteenth century, though, according to Nicholson, it 
Jung, 1909, 
