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thinly pilose, viridescent, herbaceous, attaining about 5 mm. 

 long. Calyx thinly pubescent, viridescent and tinged with 

 purple ; tube obovato-campanulate, 4— 4i mm. long ; segments 

 patent then often reflexed, shorter than the tube, ovate, acute 

 or shortly acuminate, serrulate, about 3 mm. long. Petals 

 elliptical to narrowly oblong, usuallj^ emarginate, or cuspidate, 

 acute at the base. Stamens numerous, much shorter than the 

 petals. Style exserted, exceeding the stamens, thinly pilose at 

 the base, viridescent, about 10 mm. long including the ovary ; 

 ovary ovoid, glabrous, green. 



Nom. Jap. Jugwatsu-zakura. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cultivated [T. Makino ! May 

 12, 1904; H. Takeda !). 



All smaller than the type. Flowers appear in Autumn and 

 continue to Spring through Winter. 



var. Fukubana Makino. ? = Prunus Itosakura Sieb. 

 var. ascendens Makino. x P. subhirtella Miq. 



A small tree ; branches drab-umber, dispersed with lenticels ; 

 young branchlets pubescent. Leaves petiolate, elliptical, ellip- 

 tical-oblong or lanceolato-elliptical, acuminate, acute at the base, 

 subduplicately sharply serrate, usually biglandular at the base, 

 glabrous except the pubescent midrib above, adpressed-pubescent 

 on the nerves beneath, 1 |-8i cm. long, l-3§ cm. broad ; veins 

 10—12 on each side ; veinlets densely anastomosing between 

 veins; petiole adpressed-pubescent, about 5-13 mm. long; stipules 

 subulato-linear, inciso-laciniate, about 7-10 mm. long. Flowers 

 1-4-umbellate, about 2i-2|cm. across, more or less double, 

 purplish-rose; common peduncle extremely short, surrounded by 

 imbricated small perulee ; perulje badio-castaneous, depressed- 

 ovate or orbiculate, the inner ones often longer and narrow, 

 subherbaceous ; pedicels pubescent with erect-patent hairs, about 

 §-2 cm. long ; bracts small, ovato-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or 

 spathulato oblong, obtuse, viridescent, glanduloso-ciliated, about 

 l|-4 mm. long. Calyx pubervilent, purpurascent ; tube tubu- 

 loso-campanulate, about 5 mm. long ; segments patent, lato- 

 ovate or ovato-deltoid, acute, subserrulate. Petals oblong, 



emarginate. Stamens numerous, one-third of the petals in 



