Primus.] LI. ROSACES. ( J. D. Hooker.) 315- 



Temperate Himalaya ; from GURWHAL, alt. 3-6000 ft. to SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 

 5-8000 ft. BURMA, East of Bhamo, Kurz. 



A large tree, of brilliant appearance in flower, glabrous except the puberulous 

 young shoots. Leaves 3-5 in., variable in length and breadth, often doubly serrate, 

 glabrous ; petiole slender, ^- in. ; stipules long, subulate, laciniate. Flowers rose 

 red or white, from lateral buds clothed with concave rounded glabrous scales ; pedun- 

 cles -1 in., often subcymose, connate at the base or almost umbellate. Calyx-tube 

 $ in., glabrous ; lobes ovate, acute, quite entire. Drupe oblong or ellipsoid, obtuse 

 at both ends ; flesh scanty yellow or reddish, acid ; stone bony rugose and furrowed. 

 Allied to the C. pseudocerasus, of Japan. In Sikkim the ovary is often (from insect 

 puncture) enlarged into a fusiform pale smooth fleshy body 2 inches long gradually 

 narrowed into the elongate filiform style. 



SECT. IV. Primus proper. Leaves convolute in bud, appearing after the 

 flowers. Flwivers solitary or fascicled. Calyx-tube short. Drupe glabrous, 

 usually glaucous. 



6. P. communis, Hujls. ; var. INSITITIA ; shrubby, unarmed or spinous, 

 leaves obovate ovate or ovate-lanceolate serrulate obtuse acute or cuspidate, 

 nerves hairy beneath, peduncles solitary or in pairs, calyx-tube obconic, drupe 

 globose or ovoid drooping. Brand. For. Flor. 192. P. insititia, Linn. ; P. 

 bokhariensis, and P. aloocha, Royle III. 205 (names only), 



Western temperate Himalaya; cultivated or indigenous from GTJRWHAL to 

 KASHMIR, alt. 5-7000 ft. ('truly wild/ T. Thomson). 



This,. Thomson who gathered it in Kashmir, considers to be the common yellow 

 fruited bullace ; its fruit is eatable, and I see no character whereby to distinguish 

 it from that plant. I have seen no specimens of Eoyle's P. aloocha and bokhariensis, 

 but have no reason to doubt that they are referable to this. A dark blue damson, 

 probably P. communis, var. domestica, and an orange red larger one, are stated by 

 Madden (As. Soc. Journ. xvii. part i. 445), to be cultivated about A'lmorah. 



7. P. triflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 501 (trifolia) ; shrubby, 

 unarmed, leaves oblanceolate crenulate shortly acuminate nerves glabrous be- 

 neath, peduncles usually in threes, calyx-tube turbinate, drupes ovoid cordiform. 

 Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 434 ; Wall. Cat. 720. 



AVA HILLS, Kurz. DISTRIB. China. 



A bushy tree, with blackish bark, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., recurved, 

 eglandular at the base, equitant in bud ; petiole slender ; stipules gland-ciliate. 

 Flowers small, white, very regularly in threes from the buds ; peduncle in. 

 Calyx-lobes longer than the tube, ovate, acute, margins glandular. Petals ^ in., 

 broadly obovate. Ovary ovoid, stigma large. Drupe purple, glaucous, grooved on one 

 side ; pulp reddish yellow. I have taken the characters from Eoxburgh and Kurz. 



SECT. V. Laurocerasus. Leaves conduplicate in bud. Flowers in axil- 

 lary or terminal many-flowered racemes. Calyx-tube short, obconic. Drupe 

 glaucous or not. 



* Leaves deciduous. 



8. P. Fadus, Linn ; leaves oblong-obovate or -lanceolate acuminate, 

 sharply closely serrulate, base rounded or cordate, nerves 10-20 pair, petiole often 

 eglandular, racemes elongate pendulous, flowers 33 in. diam., stamens 3040, 

 drupe in. diam. globose, stone rugose. Brandis For. Flor. 194. Cerasus cor- 

 nuta, Wall. Cat. 716 and 717 inpdrt ; Royle III. 207, t. 38, f. 2. 



Temperate Himalaya, from MTJRREE, alt. 6-9500, to SIKKIM, alt. 8-12,000 ft., 

 and BHOTAN. DISTRIB. Westward to Great Britain, and Siberia to Kamtschatka. 



