XXVI. flosA^CEiE : ce'rasus. 



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reddish tinge on their margins, and on the midribs. The other, C. si- 

 nensis described below, the Frunus japonica of Ker, and of the Ham- 

 mersmith and other nurseries, may be known in the winter season by 

 the light green or greyish colour of the bark of its young shoots ; by 

 its larger, paler-coloured, and comparatively rugose leaves, doubly or 

 coarsely serrated ; and by its more compact habit of growth. The 

 flowers of this sort are also on longer peduncles, resembling those of a 

 cherry ; while the flowers of C. jap. multiplex, the ylmygdalus piimila 

 or double dwarf almond of the nurseries, have much shorter peduncles, 

 and are sometimes nearly sessile, giving the plant more the appear- 

 ance of a Prunus than that of a Cerasus. The C japonica multiplex 

 has been in cultivation in British gardens, under the name of -4myg- 

 dalus pumila, since the days of Bishop Compton ; and, though it is 

 stated in books to have been introduced from Africa, there can be 

 little doubt of its being of Asiatic origin. The great confusion 

 which exists respecting these two plants, in botanical works, has 

 induced us to examine, with particular attention, the plants of them 

 that are in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the Hammer 

 smith Nursery. In the former garden, there v/as (June 10. 1837) a 

 Cerasus japonica in its single state, but not in its double state ; the 

 plant bearing the name of f. japonica flore pleno being unquestionably 

 the C. sinensis described below, the Priinus japonica of the nurseries. 

 In the Hammersmith Nursery, there were then some dozens of plants 

 of C. japonica multiplex, there called yimygdalus pumila, or the double 

 dwarf almond, growing in parallel nursery lines, with some dozens 

 of plants of C. sinensis, there called Prunus japonica, or the double 

 Chinese almond. We have considered it necessary to be thus particular, 

 to justify us for having deviated from the Bot. Mag. and Bot. Reg. 



jt 19. C. SINENSIS G. Don. The Chinese Cherry. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 



Synonyms. PrClnus jap6nica Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 27. 



Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 27. ; and our^. 469. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, doubly serrated, wrinkled from veins 

 beneath. Peduncles sub-aggregate. {Donh Mill.) A highly ornamental 

 low shrub. China. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1810. Flowers semi- 

 double, red above, and white underneath, produced in great profusion on 

 the preceding year's branches ; April and May. 



There is no single state of this species in 

 Britain, but there was in 1836 a plant of the 

 double variety against a wall in the Hort. Soc. 

 Garden, named C. japonica flore pleno ; and, 

 as noticed under the preceding species, there 

 were many plants in the Hammersmith Nur- 

 sery, under the name of P. japonica, or the 

 double Chinese almond. The plant is some- 

 what more tender than C. j. piiiltiplex, which 

 I IS well known in gardens as a hardy border 

 jshrub; and, except in favourable situations, 

 jit requires to be planted against a wall. 

 iThough C. sinensis and C. japonica are quite 

 distinct, there is nothing in that distinctness, 

 jas it appears to us, to determine that they are 

 jnot varieties of the same species. 469 rasus sinfaisis. 



* 20. C. 5ALi'ciNA G. Do?t. The Willow-leaved Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 



Synonymes. Prunus salicina Lindl. in Hort. Trans. ; Ching-Cho-Lee, or Tung-Choh-Lee, Chinese. 



tngraving. Fig. 470. from a specimen in the herbarium of Dr. Liudley. 



^^ec. Char., Sfc. Flowers usually solitary, shorter than the leaves. Leaves 



