714 ARBORETUM AND FRU'TICETUM. PART III. 
B. Species of Bird Cherry Trees which have not yet been introduced. 
* C. paniculata Lois. (N. Du Ham., v. p.7.), P. paniculata Thunb., not 
of Bot. Reg., is said to be a Japan tree, resembling C. Mahaleb, but differing 
in having larger and more spreading panicles, smaller flowers, and longer 
leaves, which are attenuated at the base, and acutely serrated. 
¥ C. acuminata Wall. (Pl. Rar. Asiat., ii. p.78. t. 181.) is a Nepal tree, 
growing to the height of 20 ft. or 30 ft., with the flowers in axillary racemes, 
and nodding, a little shorter than the leaves. 
¥ C. méilis Dougl. (Hook. Fl. Bor, Amer., p. 169.) is atree, from 12 ft. to 
24 ft. in height, with the racemes of flowers short, and pubescently tomentose. 
The leaves obovate-oblong, crenated, and pubescent beneath; and the fruit 
ovate. It is a native of the north-west coast of North America, on subalpine 
hills, near the source of the river Columbia, and also near its mouth. It 
resembles C. pubéscens (see p. 705.) in habit ;.and has, like it, the young 
‘shoots dark brown and downy. 
% C. emargindta Doug]. (Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer., p. 169.) is a shrub, growing 
to the height of 6 ft. or 8 ft., with its flowers in corymbose racemes; oval, 
serrulated, glabrous leaves; and globose fruit, astringent to the taste. The 
leaves are 2in. long; the flowers are white, and the wood red, with white 
spots. It is found wild about the upper part of the Columbia river, especially 
about the Kettle Falls. 
+ C. capricida G. Don. The Goat-hilling Bird Cherry. Prinus capricida Wall., 
P. undulata Hamilt. in D. Don’s Prod. Nepal., p.239.; C. undulata Dec. 
Prod., ii. p. 540. Leaves elliptic, acuminated, coriaceous, glabrous, quite 
entire, with undulately curled margins. Petioles glandulous. Racemes either 
solitary or aggregate by threes, many-flowered, glabrous, shorter than the 
leaves. (Don’s Mill., ii. p.515.) A handsome showy tree, probably evergreen, 
a native of Nepal, at Narainhetty; where the leaves are found to contain so 
large a quantity of prussic acid as to kill the goats which browse upon them. 
Royle seems to consider C. undulata and C. capricida as distinct species; and 
he observes that these, and “ C. cornuta, remarkable for its pod-like mon- 
strosity, are handsome showy trees, growing on lofty mountains, and worthy 
of introduction into England.” (Royle’s Illust., p. 205.) 
¥ C. elliptica Lois. (N. Du Ham., v. p.4.), Primus elliptica Thunb., is 
described in the Flora Japonica, p. 199., as a tree, with elliptic, serrated, veiny, 
glabrous leaves, and drupes about the size of a small grape. 
§ iii. Laurocérast. The Laurel-Cherry Trees. 
Sect. Char. Evergreen. Flowers in racemes. 
¢ 28. C.Lusita’Nica Lois. The Portugal Laurel Cherry, or common 
’ Portugal Laurel. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p.’5.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 516, 
Synonymes. Prius lusitanica Lin. Sp., 678. ; the Cherry Bay; Cerisier Laurier du Portugal, Fr. ; 
Azareiro, Portuguese. : 
Engravings. Mill. Ic., 131. t. 196. f.1.; Dill. Elth., 193, t. 159. f. 193.; our fig. 421. ; and the plate of 
the species in our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Evergreen. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, serrate, 
glandless. Racemes upright, axillary, longer than the leaves. (Dee. Prod., 
li. p. 540.) An evergreen low tree, introduced in 1648, the native country 
of which is supposed to be Portugal, or the Azores. 
Variety. 
¢ C. 1. 2 Hixa Ser. Prinus Hiva Broussonet, according to Willd. Enum., 
p.517.; P. multiglandulosa Cav. in Ann. Sc. Nat., 1801, 3. p. 59.— 
Leaves larger, with, according to Willdenow, their lowest teeth 
glanded. Racemes elongate. Flowers more loosely disposed. 
Spontaneous in the islands of Teneriffe, Grand Canary, and Palma. 
Mr. P. B. Webb informs us that this tree, in its native localities, 
attains the height of 60 ft. or 70ft. It is much to be regretted that © 
it has not yet been introduced into Britain. 
