ment he had introduced it from Japan three years 
previously. It has succeeded very well and proved to 
be quite hardy, forming a small tree of neat shape. 
The material used in the preparation of our plate was 
kindly supplied by Mr. T. Smith from his well known 
nursery at Newry, where the tree apparently bears fruit 
more freely than it does at Kew. There is some varia- 
tion in the degree of pubescence on the leaves. On 
Mr. Smith’s plant it is almost confined to the midrib and 
veins beneath, but on one grown in the Kew collection 
the leaves are softly villous beneath. The glands on the 
teeth of the bracts and calyx-lobes also vary in their 
frequency and size. The foliage of this cherry turns a 
fine red colour before falling in both Japan and North 
America, but, owing probably to our duller skies, has not 
shown this quality with us. 
Description.—7ree, 20-30 ft. high, of spreading 
habit, young shoots clothed with pale hairs the first 
season, glabrescent and greyish-brown the second. 
Leaves ovate, oval, or obovate, cuneate to rounded at 
the base, shortly acuminate, irregularly and doubly — 
serrate; 13-4 in. long, 2-13 in. wide; dull green, 
glabrous or slightly pubescent above, pubescent beneath 
especially on the midrib and veins; petiole villous, 
eglandular, 4-% in. long; stipules linear, serrate, }—1 in. 
long, pubescent. tacemes corymbose, 1-2 in. wide, 
usually 5-8-flowered, produced on short leafy shoots. 
Bracts conspicuous, foliaceous, concave, roundish to 
ovate, serrate, sometimes glandular, pubescent (some- 
times slightly), 3-3 in. long. Peduncle and pedicels 
villous, the latter up to 3 in. Jong. Flowers 4-3 in. wide, 
openingin May. Calyx villous, with a campanulate base 
and five lanceolate, glandular-serrate lobes + in. long. 
Petals 5, concave, orbicular, } in. wide, at first white, 
becoming pinkish before falling. Stamens numerous, 
anthers yellow; ovary and style glabrous. Fruit 
globose, } in. wide, shining, at first red, then black, more 
or less erect. 
Fig. 1, flower and bract, the petals removed; 2 and 8, stamens; 4, pistil ; 
5, young fruit; 6, stone of ripe fruit :—all enlarged. ga 
