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Nom. Jap. Kan-zakura. 



Hah. Tok3'o, cultivated (T. Makino ! March, June and July 

 1905). 



An early flowering form in gardens. The leaves are thicker 

 and firmer, the pedicels shorter, the calyx wider above, and the 

 calyx-tube shorter than the type. It is rarely found in Tokyo. 



Prunus Itosakura Sieb. Syn. PL Oecon. Jap. in Verb. 

 Batav. Gen. XII. (1830) p. 68, n. 360. 



Cerasus Itosakura i. e. pendula Sieb. herb. 



Cerasus pendula £. roseo Sieb. Catal. (1863) p. 5, n. 31. 



Prunus pendula Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 690 (1883), 

 et in Bull. Acad. Petersbg. XXIX. (1884) p. 98 ; Sargent in 

 Gard. a. Forest, I. (1888) p. 196, fig. 36, et II. p. 487 ; Stapf 

 in Curtis's Bot. Alag. tab. 8034 (1905). 



Prunus Herincquiana Lavallee, Arb. Serg. p. 117, tab. 35 

 (1885) ; Schneid. 111. Handb. Laubholzk. I. (1906) p. 608, fig. 

 339 h-k, et 340 a. 



Tree often attaining a large size. Leaves elliptical to lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, acute at the base, subduplicately serrate, pubes- 

 cent beneath, with pubescent petiole ; veins 9-15 on each 

 side. ' Pedicels sometimes longer than those of the next variet}'. 

 Flowers simple or double. Petals elliptical or oblong, emargi- 

 nate, whitish or ros3\ 



Nom Jap. Ito-zakura, Shidare-zakura. 



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



A garden plant ; its parent is probably the next varict3', and 

 the leaves are similar to it in the size, form and other conditions. 

 It attains about 20 m. in height and its trunk 1 m. in diameter 

 above the base. 



var. ascendens Makino. 



Prunus pendula var. ascendens Makino, Notes on Jap. PI. 

 XYII. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, YII. (1893) p. 103. 



Prunus suhhirtella Hook. fil. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. tab. 7508 

 (1896). non Miq. 



