166 CHINESE ECONOMIC TREES 



Prunus persica Stokes. 



Shrub or small tree. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrate, conduplicate 

 in the bud, with a short glandular petiole. Flowers appearing before the 

 leaves, solitary, pink, sepals more or less pubescent on the inner surface. 

 Fruit a drupe, soft and fleshy when ripe, pubescent. Stone hard and 

 deeply pitted. 



Native of China, widely cultivated. This is the parent of the 

 common peach. 



Prunus mira Kohne. 



Tree 10 m. tall. This species differs from all other known peaches 

 by the smooth stone. 



Szechuan. 



The fruits are edible. 



Prunus triflora Roxbur 



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This cherry is both wild and cultivated in W. China. It has been 

 introduced into cultivation in Korea, Japan, Europe, and N. America. 



Prunus mume Siebold and Zuccarini. 

 Plum Tree. 



Numerous horticultural varieties have been developed. The species 

 is too well known to need a description. 



AMELANCHIER 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves deciduous, alternate, simple, entire or 

 serrate, pinnately veined, petiolate, with linear, rose colored, caducous 

 stipules. Flowers perfect, in racemes, rarely solitary on slender pedicels 

 furnished with 2 deciduous bracts. Calyx tube campanulate or urn- 

 shaped, with 5 persistent lobes; petals white, obovate-oblong, spatulate 

 or ligulate, contracted below; stamens usually 10, filaments persistent on 

 the fruit; styles 2-5 ; ovary more or less adnate to the calyx tube, 5 celled 

 with 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit a berry-like pome with a cavity at the 

 summit and sweet, juicy flesh. Seeds 10 or rarely 5 by abortion, ovate- 

 elliptical. 



N. America, S. Europe, N. Africa, S. W. Asia. 



