314 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Prunus. 



2. P. tomentosa, Thumb. FL Jap. 203 ; branchlets tomentose, leaves 

 shortly petioled orbicular-ovate acuminate crenate-serrate sparingly hairy above 

 densely and softly so beneath, flowers solitary pedicelledj calyx-tube shortly 

 cylindric glabrous. P. trichocarpa, Bunge, En. Plant. Chin. Bor. 96 ; Sieb. $ 

 Zucc. FL Japan, t. 22 ; Cerasus tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 715. 



North West Himalaya; KASHMIR, alt. 5-6000 ft. Thomson. WESTERN TIBET, 

 Ladak, Moorcroft. DISTRIB. N. China. 



A shrub, with slender spreading branches. Leaves l-l in., membranous, 

 almost velvety beneath, base rounded, tip sometimes prolonged ; petiole very short, 

 eglandular, tomentose ; stipules slender, laciniate. Flowers axillary. Calyx-tube \ in. ; 

 lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire. Petals small. Fruit ellipsoid, young hairy 

 pointed, ripe obtuse compressed. 



3. P. rufa, Wall. Cat. 721 (Cerasus) ; young branches densely tomentose, 

 leaves elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrate glabrate, petiole 

 eglandular pubescent, flowers axillary solitary or fascicled, calyx-tube urceolate 

 glabrous. P. ferruginea, Wall. MSS. 



Central and Eastern temperate Himalaya, NEPAL, Wallich : SIKK.IM, alt. 

 10-12,000 ft. J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



A small tree, 15-20 ft., branchlets woody. Leaves 1-4 in., narrowed into the 

 short petiole, very sharply serrate, midrib puberulous above pubescent or glabrate 

 beneath ; nerves reticulated ; petiole ^ in. ; bud-scales linear, membranous, glandu- 

 lar-serrate ; stipules filiform laciniate. Flowers pink ; peduncles glabrous, longer 

 than the petioles. Calyx-tube in., ventricose at the base, then contracted, mouth 

 spreading, lobes broad short subacute crenulate. Petals small, orbicular. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, on stout lengthened pedicels, red, fleshy, stone rugged. 



* Floivers appearing before the leaves. 



4. P. Jacqueznontii, Hook. f. ; dwarf, leaves small elliptic or obovate 

 acute sharply serrate glabrous or minutely puberulous beneath, petiole eglandu- 

 lar, stipules setaceous, drupe globose, stone smooth. Amygdalus humilis, Edgiv. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 44, not of Bunge. 



Western Himalaya; in the TIBETAN region, Jacquemont. GURWHAL, Malari, 

 alt. 9000 ft., Edgworth ; Niti, 11,500 ft., Strachy and Winterbottom. KUNAWUR, alt. 

 12,000 ft., T. Thomson. 



Branches strict, slender, divaricating, glabrous, or puberulous in the leaf axils and 

 buds. Leaves 1 in., variable in breadth, from linear-oblong to rhomboid-obovate 

 but usually elliptic, narrowed into the short petiole, rather coriaceous ; nerves nearly 

 straight, very oblique ; petiole puberulous. (Calyx-tube glabrous except at the base 

 within ; lobes short, crenulate. Petals short, obovate. Ovary glabrous, Edaw.) 

 Drupe very shortly pedicelled, fleshy in Jacquemont's specimen, dry globose and 

 cuspidate in Thomson's, stone smooth. 



I refer this doubtfully to the section with the flowers appearing before the leaves ; 

 the specimens being in fruit only. This is the species mentioned by Brandis (For. 

 Flor. 194, under P. Puddum) as P. humilis, Bunge, of China, and found from the 

 Chenab to the Jumna, but it differs much from Bunge's humilis in the very short pe- 

 duncles, and much coarser serratures of the leaves. Edgworth gave it the name of 

 Amygdalus humilis, without reference to Bunge's species of Prunus of that name. 



5. P. Puddum, Roxb. MSS. in Herb. Wall. ; arboreous, leaves ovate- or 

 oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate sharply serrate, petiole 2-4-glandular, 

 flowers solitary fascicled or urnbelled, calyx-tube narrowly campanulate, petals 

 obovate or linear-oblong. Branded For. Flor. 194 ; Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. 

 Burm., i. 434. P. cerasoides, Don, Prodr. 239. P. sylvatica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 501. Cerasus Puddum, Wall PI. As. Rar. ii. 37, t. 143 ; Cat. 714. 0. Phoshia, 

 Ham. in Don, Prodr. 239. 



