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supplied by Mr. W. E. Ledger, of Wimbledon, who sent s pecimens 
to Kew for identification. At Kew the plant flowers about mid- 
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especially in the widely hastate-cordate anterior lobe. The plate 
was prepared from material received from the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Glasnevin, where the plant, presented by Dr. Schlechter, 
flowered in 1909. 
Prunus microcarpa, C. A. Mey.—Figures of this species in the 
flowering and fruiting state were recently published in the Botanical 
Magazine (tab. 8360). The flowers are represented as having a 
pink receptacle and calyx and a whitish-pink corolla, and the fruits 
asgreen. In the description the colour of the receptacle was given 
as “pubescens,” of the petals as “albo-rosea vel alba,” and of the 
fruit as “ruber vel luteus,’ whilst in the accompanying English 
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with “fruits yellow as a Quince. 
remarks made in the Botanical Magazine as to the variability of 
the plant, and it is only to be hoped that in normal summers and in 
situations with a maximum of available sunshine this pretty shrub 
may also be able to ripen its dainty fruits in our country. 
O.S. 
