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of a violet brown, overlaid with a broken silver 

 scarf-skin, almost naked, covered with short, 

 thin, almost imperceptible hairs. The leaf buds 

 (pointing out, remote,) short, thick at the base, 

 and a little woolly. The eye bearers (augen- 

 trager ophthahnopodra,) broad, high, long, rising 

 | r.t dually, not perpendicularly. The leaves are 

 luge, 3 inches 7 lines long, 1 inch 10 broad, and 

 pendant, flat, thick, stiff, coarsely ribbed and 

 nerved, upper surface bare, the lower pubescent, 

 dark green, iengish eggshaped, pointed, some- 

 times lancet shaped, coarsely, deeply, and doubly 

 serrated. The fruit has some resemblance to the 

 shape and colour of the common prune, only con- 

 siderably larger, — being very large, two inches 

 hiirli , one inch 5 lines in breadth, and one inch 

 fmr and a half lines in thickness. Its shape is 

 variable, often a regular oval, but most, frequent- 

 ly narrowing towards the stem. The greatest 

 breadth is often in the middle. Occasionally the 

 back and belly are compressed; and the same is 

 sometimes remarked on the sides. The suture, 

 deepening below, draws the back down flatly, and 

 divides the fruit unequally ; one side rising towards 

 the point. 



The remains of the pistil, large, yellowish 

 grey, and flat towards the point, for the most 

 part rather more towards the belly. The stem is 

 8 lines long, hairy, slender and straight, greenish, 

 with rusty spots. The cavity of the stem is nar- 

 row and rather deep. The bloom is pretty thick, 

 and light blue. The colour is red blue, now and 

 then pretty dark ; but the red colour still is al- 

 ways predominant. 



Grey and yellow specks are spread very thickly 

 over the whole fruit. The skin is thick, tough, 

 mav be stripped off, and is bitterish sour. The 

 flesh is whitish yellow, firm, prune like, a little 

 coarse, pretty transparent and bright, very juicy, 

 of a sweet, high flavor. 



The pit is closely enveloped by the flesh, but 

 parts freely, except a little upon the edges, and 

 is, in relation to the size of the fruit, small, and 

 strongly compressed. It measures one inch three 

 lines in height, seven lines broad, and three and a 

 half lines thick. The shape is lancet, inverted 

 eggshaped below, sharp above, blunt pointed. 

 The cheeks rough and flat 



The back and belly are about similarly curved. 

 The greatest breadth is generally towards the top. 

 The midrib is sharp, and enlarges towards the 

 bottom. The belly furrow is narrow, and for the 

 most distorted in places; its edges are indented. 

 The fruit ripens in the last decade (drittel,) of 

 August. The fruit, from its striking magnitude, 

 early ripening, and distinguished agreeable, sweet 

 taste, deserves to be disseminated. Unfortunately, 

 however, it is not a good bearer; it rots in rainy 

 weather; its suture cracks open frequently in the 

 direction of the pistil, and becomes gummy, whieh 

 gives rise to deformity in shape, and renders it 

 scarcely eatable. 



It hangs firmly on the tree. May be known by 



its size, early ripening, predominant red colour, 

 oval figure, sometimes assuming the inverted egg- 

 shape. The tree is distinguished by its narrow, 

 loDgish, drooping fruit leaves; the pit by the 

 blunt, long, projecting points at its base. 



The Imperiale Violette is often confounded with 

 this plum in nurseries, and by authors; but is in- 

 verted eggshaped, smaller, shorter, and more blue 

 in colour, and ripens later. 



Die Rothe Eierpflaume — Red Egg Plum — Reine 

 dc Chypre, Pr. dom. de Cypro. The young twigs 

 are zig-zag, (flexuosus, bent from bud to bud.) 

 naked, slightly pubescent at the base ; buds crowd" 

 ed, pointing out; flower stems generally in pairs: 

 leaves broad, eggshaped, rather acuminate, quite 

 hairy, coarsely serrate; petioles long, hairy ; fruit 

 very large, compressed, inverted eggshaped, 

 flamed with red; stem long, thickly haired. 

 Fruit a free stone; pit inverted eggshaped, thick 

 cheeked above, short pointed below, projecting, 

 blunt pointed. The tree grows to a large size, 

 thickly leaved, bears every year, and often in 

 masses, (clusters;) comes true from the pit. 



The summer shoots are pretty strong, charaC' 

 teristically dotted with grey, rough, naked, and at 

 the ends set with fine, scarcely perceptible hairs. 

 The buds are crowded, pointing outwards, very 

 large, bellying, blunt pointed, loose (aufgelock- 

 ert,) almost entirely covered with a whitish wool. 

 The bud-bearers (augentrager ophthalmopodia.) 

 [shoulders,] arc broad, almost long, high, mar- 

 ginate, shining, without ribs. The leaves are 

 large, three inches long, two inches broad, depen- 

 dent (drooping,) flat, thick, soft, pretty strongly 

 ribbed, thickly haired both on the upper and un- 

 der surfaces; ribs rugose, dark green, broadly 

 eggshaped, coarsely acuminated, for the most part 

 serrated crenately. The petioles are 11 lines 

 long, stout, thickly haired, channeled on the up- 

 per side, and a little reddish. 



The fruit is in shape and size like a hen's egg 

 is 1 inch 11 lines in height, 1 inch 7 lines broad, 

 liinch thick. The shape is (einseitig,) one sided, 

 uneven, irregular; (that is, I presume when the 

 fruit is divided downwards, through the suture 

 the two parts are of unequal dimensions and dif- 

 ferent shape;) phial shaped, compressed on either 

 side, running off suddenly towards the belly, and 

 forming a blunt edge. The suture is scarcely 

 perceptibly depressed, and draws the back rathei 

 flattish, generally dividing the fruit unequally. 

 The pistil mark is large and grey, placed in the 

 middle, near the point which rises toward the 

 belly. The stem is 13 lines long, thinly haired, 

 slender, straight, generally of a deep rest colour. 

 The oavity of the stem is placed entirely upon a 

 raised (elevation) point. The bloom is thin, and 

 of a whitish blue. The colour is bright red. in 

 which many dark red stripes and blotches occur, 

 and which colour the fruit , especially on the sunny 

 side, of a deep dark flame tint. Grey dots are 

 thickly sprinkled over the surface. The skin is 



