102 'J"HE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xxii. No. 257. 



Prunus Cerasus a. Thunb. Fl. Jap (1784), p. 201. 



Prunus paniculata Edw. in Bot. Reg. tab. 800, 11011 Tliutib. 



Cerasus Sieboldtii Carr. in Rev. Hort. (1866), p. 371 cum 

 tab, 



Cerasus lannesiana Carr. 1. c. (1872), p. 198, et (1873), p. 

 351 cum tab. 



Cerasus caproniana Bore roseo pleno Van Houttc, Fl. ties 

 Serres, XXI. (1875), p. 141, tab. 2238-39. 



Cerasus Wattererii Hort.; Goldring in The Garden, XXXIII. 

 (1888), p. 416 cum illustr. 



A cultivated variety. 



subvar. a. glabra Makino. 



Leaves pedicels and calj^x quite glabrous. Flowers simple 

 or double, white, rose, rarely viridescent. 



Nom. Jap. Sato-zakura (M. Shirai). 



Hab. Japan, cultivated (T. Makino !). 



Flowers are vary much in form size £ind colour, and the 

 garden forms are very abundant. Among them there arc 

 forma viridiflora Makino, having double and viridescent 

 flowers; forma Fugenzo Makino, having double rose flowers 

 with foliaceous green styles. 



subvar. b. Sieboldi (Maxim.) Makino. 



Prunus pseudo-Cerasus y. Sieboldi Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. 

 p. 697 (1883) ; Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. III. p. 620. 



Leaves and pedicels pubescent. Flowers simple or semi- 

 double, white or rosy. 



Nom. Jap. Ke-satozakura (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. MusAsm : Tokyo (T. Makino ! April 14, 1893, 

 April 7, 1894) ; Prov. Yamato : Nara {K. Tsujil 1901) ; Prov. 

 IwASHiRO : Fukushima [G. Nakahara ! April 25, 1904). 



Hairs are dense or thin, sometimes very sparing. Among 

 them there is forma albida Makino, having the short com- 

 mon peduncle, short green pedicels (sometimes destitute of 

 hairs), larger green bracts, white simple petals, and green 



young leaves. 



{To be continued) 



