xxvi. 



: CE'RASUS. 



293 



Engravings. Fl. Mex. Icon. ined. ; PI. Mex. Icon. ined. ; Hern. Mex. Icon., 95. ; and our Jig. 479. 

 Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves lanceolate, serrated, and glabrous, resembling in form, 



and nearly in size, those of <Salix fragilis. Racemes lateral and terminal. 



Fruit globose, resembling, in form and colour, that of C. sylvestis. (Dec. 



Prod.) A handsome sub-evergreen low tree or shrub. Mexico, in temperate 



and cold places. Height 6 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1820. Flowers white; 



May. Drupe red ; ripe in August. 



The plant bearing this name in the Hort. Soc. Garden has leaves broader 

 than those of <Salix fragilis ; and, taken altogether, it is of more luxuriant 

 growth than C. virginiana. It is, however, less hardy as a plant in the open 

 garden, and was killed to the ground in the winter of 1837-8. In favourable 

 situations, however, it is a very desirable species, being a remarkably free 

 flowerer, and ripening abundance of fruit, which have stones as large as those 

 of the wild cherry. 



^ 27. C. NEPALE'NSIS Ser. The Nepal Bird- 

 Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Seringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540. ; Don's Mill., 



2. p. 515. 



Synonyme. Prunus glaucifblius Wall. MSS. 

 Engraving. OUT Jig. 480 , from a specimen in Dr. Lindley's her- 



barium. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves resembling in form those 

 of Sa\\\ fragilis ; long, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 serrate, with biunt teeth, glabrous, whitish be- 

 neath ; the veins much reticulated ; and the 

 axils of the larger of them hairy. Peduncle 

 short, and, as well as the rachis, slightly villose. 

 Calyx glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous 

 shrub or low tree. Nepal. Height 6 ft. to 

 12ft. Introd. 1820. Flowers white j May. 

 Drupe ?. 



B. Species of Bird-Cherry Trees which have not yet been introduced, or of which 

 we have not seen Plants. 



% C. acuminata Wall. (PI. Rar. Asiat., ii. 

 p. 78. t. 181. ; and our Jig. 481.) is a Nepal 

 tree, growing to the height of 20 or 30 feet, 

 with the flowers in axillary racemes, and 

 nodding, a little shorter than the leaves. 



& C. emargindta Dougl. (Hoo/c. Fl. Bor. 

 Amer., p. 169.) is a shrub, growing to the 

 height of 6 or 8 feet, with its flowers in co- 

 rymbose racemes ; having oval, serrulated, 

 glabrous leaves ; and globose fruit, astringent 

 to the taste. The leaves are 2 in. 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. 



3f C. capricida G. Don. The Goat-killmg Bird Cherry. Prunus 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'ji 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. 

 Ttoyle seems to consider C. undulata and C. capricida as distinct species ; and 



u 3 



480. C6ra*u nepatensis. 



481. ttrasus acuminata. 



