ROSACES. 217 



Prunus insititia LINX. Sp. PL ed-2, p. 680. 







HAB. Shintiku. 



DISTRIB. Em-ope tlirougli Asia. 



The occurrence of P. communis in the island is rather doubtful. 



Prunus Kawakamii HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 77 ; Shrub, 

 young virgate branches ciuereo -pubescent, glabrous. Leaves hysteranthous, 

 young ones petiolate, petioles 4 mm. long, semiterete glabrous, blades acute 

 at the base, ovate, oblong, acute at the apex, margin glanduloso-serrulate, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, stipules lanceolate, glanduloso-ciliolate. Flowers 

 5-6 clustered, pedicellate, pedicels 7 mm. long, terete, glabrous. Calyx 

 hypogynous, persistent ; tube shortly campauulate, glabrous, inside with disc, 

 lobes 5, ovate, 3 mm. long, obtuse, glanduloso-ciliate, patent. Petals af- 

 fixed on the throat of the calyx, cuneately obovate, with short claws at 

 the base, rounded at the apex, quite entire, radiately venose, glabrous, patent 

 6^ mm. long, 4 mm. broad. Stamens affixed on the throat of the calyx, 

 much exserbed, a little longer than petals. Ovary superior, ovoid with style 6 

 mm. long, stigma capitately peltate. 



HAB. Toroku ; Kanosha. 



DISTRIB. An allied species, P. japonica THUNB. occurs in Japan and 

 China. 



Closely resembles P. japonica THDNB ; differs from it in having peltately 

 capitate stigmas, longer stamens and smaller petals. 



Frunus Mume SIEB. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. I. p. 29, t. 11, et Fl. Jap. 

 Fam. Nat. I. p. 122 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 22 ; FRANCH. et SAVAT. Enum. 

 PL Jap. I. p. 117 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XL p. 671 ; LrO et MATSUM. Tent. 

 FL Lutch. p. 445 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XII. p. 54 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Eirum. PL Formos. p. 118. 



HAB. Suichoryu, Niki, Shintiku. 



DISTRIB. Japan. 



Prunus Persica SIEB. et Zucc. FL Jap. Fam. Nat. I. p. 122 ; MAXIM. 

 in Mel. Biol. XL p. 666; BAKER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. H. p. 313; 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. FL Sin. I. p. 220 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 40 ; 



