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slender, exceeding the vStamens in height ; stigma depressed- 

 capitate ; ovary oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous, about 2 mm. long. 

 Drupe usually 1-2, globoso-ellipsoid, glabrous ; putamen ellipsoid 

 or globoso-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, subacute at the apex, 

 osseous, smooth, about 7-(S mm. long ; pedicel strict, about 

 18—23 mm. long, hirtello-pubescent. 



Nom. Jap. Higan-zakura. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa, cultivated (T. Makino ! March 

 2Q, 1887, flowers. May 29, 1887, leaves, 1892, leaves and fruits ; 

 Y. Moriokal) ; Prov. Iyo: Matsuyama, cultivated {Z. JJmemura ! 

 April 4, 1898, flowers) ; Prov, IsE : Yokkaichi, cultivated (M. 

 Kawasaki I March 28, 1903, flowers, fruits and leaves). 



This species is not j-et found wild, being known only in 

 cultivation. It differs from Prunus Itosakura Sieb. ( = P. 



pendula Maxim.) and its varietj' ascendens Makino principally- 

 by the leaves, size of the flowers, development of the bracts and 

 size of the tree. This is a small tree, and the flowers are 

 larger in size and handsomer in colour than those of preceding 

 species. It is common in the southern Japan. 



var. aTitumnalis Makino, var. nov. 



A small tree ; branches slender, castaneous or fulvous, 

 glabrous, but young one thinly piloso-pubescent. Bud oblong- 

 conical ; perulge imbricated, castaneous. Leaves petiolate, 

 elliptical, subobovato-elliptical, or oblong-elliptical subcaudato- 

 acuminate, acute at the base, very sharply simpli-duplicato- 

 serrate, thinly pubescent on both surfaces, biglandular at the 

 base, chartaceo-membranaceous, 3-6^^ cm. long, 1^-3 cm. wide ; 

 veins about 10 on each side ; petiole pubescent, 6-13 mm. long ; 

 stipules subulato-linear, acuminate, laciniate, glanduloso-fimbri- 

 ate, shorter than or equal to the petiole in length. Flowers 1- 

 3- umbellate, about l|-2cm. across, more or less double, rosy; 

 common peduncle extremely short, surrounded by perulre at the 

 base ; perul^e imbricated, ferruginous, orbicular or lato-orbicular 

 in the lower external ones, the internal ones ciliated, pubescent 

 above, attaining about 2h mm. long ; pedicels thinly pubescent, 

 viridescent, attaining about 10mm, long; bracts 1-3, spathulato- 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, concave, glandular-ciliated, very 



