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CERASUS SPHAEROCARPA. Novau Cuerry. ; 
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Class and Order. 
IcosanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Drupa globosa aut basi umbilicata, carnosa, glaberrima, 
polline czsio destituta, nucleo subgloboso levi—Folia 
Junora conduplicata. Flores nunc pedicellis 1-floris e 
gemina squamosa plurimis umbellato-fasciculatis insidentes, 
el tune foliis precociores, nunc ramosi terminales et post 
folia evoluti. D. C. "ae 
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Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cerasus * spherocarpa ; racemis axillaribus erectis folio 
brevioribus, foliis perennantibus eglandulosis integer-— Z 
rimis nitidis, fructibus subglobosis. sao 
“sara spherocarpa. Loisel.—De Cand. Prodr. v.2.p. _ 
Prunus spherocarpa. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 2. p. 927. 
(not Mich.). Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 981. Spren 
syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 478. Be eS gene 
YRTIFOLIA ieee, ‘foliis latis subrotundis, flore albo. - 
Sloane, Jam. v. 2. p. 79. t. 193. f. 1. rhe 
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Descr. This forms a Tree (according to Mr, Guitpine, 
to whom I am indebted for the accompanying drawing with 
remarks) from thirty to thirty-five feet in height, with 
sreyish, smooth bark and somewhat erect branches. The 
leaves are alternate, three to four inches long, ou short, 
Stooved petioles, evergreen, coriaceous, shining, oval, or 
©val-lanceolate, shortly acuminate at both extremities, 
quite entire at the margins, penninerved, destitute of glands, 
often twisted obliquely at the extremities. Racemes on — . 
father short peduncles, erect, glabrous, many-flowered, the Q 
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it, ftom Cerasus, aT in Asi us is said to hay 
» & Town of Pontus in Asia, whence LucuLUvs Is sald t0 bY 
the cultivation of the Cherry into Italy, seventy-three years B. Cc. 
