ROSACEAE. — PRUNUS 255 



In the type the shoots are hirsute only toward the apex; the leaves are oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, usually 6-9, or even to 14 cm. long and 2.5-4 (-5) cm. broad, 

 pubescent on the midrib above and sometimes also on the lateral veins; the sepals 

 are 3-4 mm. long; the fruit in the fresh state is 9 mm. in diameter. The petals of 

 the type are two-lobed as in the variety. 



68. Prunus subhirtella Miquel mAnn. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. II. 91 (1865), cmen- 

 danda. — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CXXII. t. 7508 (1896). — Koehne in Mitt. 

 Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVIII. 173 (1909). — Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII. 115 

 (1908), etiam hue pertinere videtur. 



Prunus subhirtella, var. oblongifolia Miquel, I. c., quoad ramos floriferos (rami 



steriles foliati ad P. Buergerinnam Miquel e subgenere Pado pertinent). 

 Prunus incisa Maximowncz in Bidl. Sci. Acad. St. Petersbourg, XXIX. 99; 

 in Mel. Biol. XI. 692 (non Thunbcrg) (1833); pro parte, saltem quoad 

 synonymum P. subhirtella Miquel et e "corymbis praecocibus." 

 Prunus pendula, var. ascendens Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. VII. 103 (1893), an 



hue pertinet? 

 Prunus Herincquiana, var. ascendens Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. 1. 608 



(1906). 

 Prunus itosakra, i3 subhirtella Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIII. ISO (190S), 

 est eadem quae P. subhirtella Makino. 

 The examination of all the specimens in the Rijks-Herbarium at Leyden designated 

 by Miquel himself as P. subhirtella has given the following result: there are four 

 flowering and five leafy branches of the plant figured later by Hooker as P. sub- 

 hirtella, one flowering and one leafy branch of P. Herincquiana Lavallee and four 

 leafy branches of P. -pendula Maximowicz. The variety oblongifolia Miquel con- 

 sists of six flowering branches of typical P. subhirtella and four leafy branches of 

 P. Buergeriana Miquel. Therefore there can be no doubt that Miquel intended 

 the name P. subhirtella for the same plant which later Hooker considered P. sub- 

 hirtella, but that he added to his P. subhirtella by mistake wrongly determined 

 branches of other species. I therefore think that the name P. subhirtella with 

 the authority of Miquel can be retained for the species in question. Although 

 Maximowicz refers P. subhirtella as a synonym to P. incisa Thunberg, no reason for 

 this is apparent, as none of Miquel's specimens belongs to P. incisa. 



Japan : I have seen quite a number of specimens without locality or collector, 

 also specimens collected by Siebold, Buerger and, as far as I could make it out, by 

 Sahsnbro (Miquel gives Saksako as the Japanese name of the plant). Further- 

 more specimens from Hondo, environs of Hirosaki, May 27, 1905, U. Faurie (No. 

 6700); Mt. Sliikosan, May 3. 1907, U. Faurie (No. 100). 



Prunus subhirtella, var. fukubana Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII. 118 

 (1908), ab autore dicitur forsan Prunus Itosakura, var. ascendens Makino X 

 Prunus subhirtella Miquel. 



Prunus itosakra, y ascendens, subvar. amabilis Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XXIII. 181 (1909) an eadem? 

 Flores plus minus pleni, purpurascenti-rosei (Makino), v. plerumque pleni albo- 

 rosei (Koidzumi). "Ovaries 1-2 in a flower" (Makino). 



In the Herbarium at Leyden I have seen a branch with double flowers belonging 

 to P. subhirtella. It was originally labelled Cerasus itosakura flore semipleno, and 

 then determined by Miquel as P. subhirtella. The number of petals was 13-14, 

 about 11 mm. long and 7 mm. broad, the number of stamens 61 and of pistils 2. 

 The style was glabrous; it is also in typical P. subhirtella sometimes nearly glabrous. 

 Makino describes the style of his var. fukubana as "thinly pilose." 



