216 I;OSACE:I :. 



(2) Flowers large, more than 2 cm. in length, leaves oblong or ovate, 



cuspidately acuminate, serrate, slightly cordate at the base, stipules 



fimbriately lacerate, segments recurve;! Primus campantdata 



Flowers smaller, less than 1 cm. in length, (if more than 1 cm. the 

 leaves laiiceolately oblong) (3) 



(3) Flowers white, nearly sessile or very shortly pedicelled, nearly 



solitary, leaves ovate, acuminate at the apex, stipules linear 



P. Mume. 



Flowers coloured or sometimes white, more or less pedicelled, 2-3- 

 clustered, leaves usually lanceolate, sometimes ovate, but not 

 acuminate at the apex. (4) 



(4) Leaves lanceolate or elougately oblong, much larger (5) 



Leaves nearly rounded or ovate, acute towards the apex, but quite 

 obtuse at the extremity, branches very slender, leaves much smaller 

 P. pogonostyla 



(5) Leaves elliptically lanceolate, flowers nearly solitary, ll cm. in length, 



(obtuse or nearly rounded at the base) P. Persica. 



Leaves lanceolate or ovate, acuminate at both ends. (6) 



(6) Flowers long pedicelled more or less racemosely arranged, leaves, 



ovate P. laiivaniana. 



Flowers clustered, shortly pedicelled, leaves lanceolate. . . P. Kawakamii. 



Primus campanulata MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 698 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 218 ; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. p. 446 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 117. 



HAB. Tikushiko. 



DISTRIB. Loo-choo (cult.) and China. 



Prunus communis HUDS.; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 677 ; FORBES 

 et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 218 ; DIELS Fl. Cent. Chin. p. 407 ; PALIBIN 

 Conspect. Fl. Koreae I. p. 86; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. 

 p. 117. 



Prunus domestica LINN. Sp. PI. ed-2, p. 680; LOUR. Fl. Cochiuch. ed- 

 WILLD. p. 338. 



