216 ROSACES. 



(2) Flowers large, more than 2 cm. ill length, leaves oblong or ovate, 



cnspiclately acuminate, serrate, slightly cordate at the base, stipules 



fimbriately lacerate, segments recurved Primus campannlala 



Flowers smaller, less than 1 cm. in length, (if more than 1 cm. the 

 leaves lanceolately oblong) (3) 



(3) Flowers white, nearly sessile or very shortly pedicelled, nearly 



solitary, leaves ovate, acuminate at the apex, stipules linear 



P. Hume. 



Flowers coloured or sometimes white, more or less pedicelled, 2-3- 

 clustered, leaves usually lauceolats, sometimes ovate, but not 

 acuminate at the apex. (4) 



(4) Leaves lanceolate or elongately oblong, much larger (5) 



Leaves nearly rounded or ovate, acute towards the apex, but quite 



obtuse at the extremity, branches very slender, leaves much smaller 



P. pogonostyla 



(5) Leaves elliptically lanceolate, flowers nearly solitary, ll cm. in length, 



(obtuse or nearly rounded at the base) P. Persica. 



Leaves lanceolate or ovate, acuminate at both ends. (6) 

 (fi) Flowers long pedicelled more or less racemosely arranged, leaves, 



ovate P. laiwaniana. 



Flowers clustered, shortly pedicelled, leaves lanceolate. .. P. Kawakamii. 



Primus campanulata MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 698 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 218; Lro et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. p. 446; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 117. 



HAB. Tikushiko. 



DISTEIB. Loo-choo (cult.) and China. 



Prurnis communis HUBS.; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 677 ; FORBES 

 et HEMSL. Intl. Fl. Sin. I. p. 218 ; DEELS Fl. Cent. Chin. p. 407 ; PALIBIN 

 Conspect. Fl. Koreae I. p. 86 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. 

 p. 117. 



Primus domestica LLNN. Sp. PI. ed-2, p. 680; LOUR, Fl. Cochinch. ed- 

 WILLD. p. 338. 



