XXVI. ros/Cceje: ce'rasus. 



293 



gn^rarings. Fl. Mex. Icon, iiied. ; PI. Mex. Icon. ined. ; Hern. Mex. Icon., 95. ; and om Jig. 479. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves lanceolate, serrated, and glabrous, resembling in form, 

 and nearly in size, tbose of SiiWx frdgilis. 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 

 han those of iSalix fragilis ; and, taken altogether, it is of more luxuriant 

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

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

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

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

 j(f the wild cherry. 



27. C. nepale'nsis Ser. The Nepal Bird- 

 Cherry Tree. 



dentification. Scringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540. ; Don's Mill., 

 '1. p. 515. 



I'lnonyme. Prtiniis glaucifolius WaU. MSS. 

 ngyaving. Our Jig. 4S0., from a specimen in Dr. Lindley's her. 

 barium. 

 pec. Char., c^t. Leaves resembling in form those 

 of iSalix fragilis ; long, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 serrate, with blunt 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 

 12 ft. Introd. 1820. Flowers \vhite ; May. 

 Drupe ?. 



480. Cerasus nepal^nsis. 



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

 we have not seen Plants. 



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



78. t, 181.; and our /g. 481.) is a Nepal 



;e, growing to the height of 20 or 30 feet, 



th the flowers in axillary racemes, and 

 'dding, a little shorter than the leaves. 



it C. emargindta Dougl. (Hook. Fl. Bor. 



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



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



iibose racemes ; having oval, serrulated, 

 I brous leaves ; and globose fruit, astringent 

 ' the taste. The leaves are 2 in. long ; the 

 Uvers are white ; and the wood red, with 

 ' ite spots. It is found wild about the 

 iper part of the Columbia River, especially 

 ibut the Kettle Falls. 



^ C. capricida G. Don. The Goat-hilling Bird Cherry. Priinus capricidafFfl//. ; 

 ^\ undulata Hamilt. in D. Don's Prod. Nepal, p. 239. ; C. undulata Dec. 

 W. ii. p. 340. Leaves elliptic, acuminated, coriaceous, glabrous, quite 

 ESire, with undulately curled margins. Petioles glandulous. Racemes either 

 sltiiry or aggregate by threes, many-flowered, glabrous, shorter than the 

 li^es. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 51o.) A handsome showy tree, probably evergreen, 

 active of Nepal, at Narainhetty ; where the leaves are found to contain so 

 ^fe a quantity of prussic acid as to kill the goats which browse upon them. 



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



u 3 



481. Cerasus acuminata. 



