18 Notes upon Mr. Scotfs Report. 



India, where they abound. There is frequently one raised from 

 these seeds which is much hardier than the others, with rather 

 large bright rosy-pink flowers, which stood last winter without any 

 protection in an open border ; and Dr. Royle says that there are 

 many which grow very high up the hills, which should be quite 

 hardy in England. 



Primus Murae of Sieboldt is a yellow-fruited plum used by 

 the people for pickles, as cucumbers and walnuts are in England, 

 and producing, like the common plum (P. doinestica), many hun- 

 dreds of varieties ; therefore, it must be a mistake (or the plants 

 are not true), to suppose this plum belongs to the bird-cherry 

 section (C. Padus), which has long bunches of small berries, 

 not at all likely to be used for pickles. This is the dwarf, 

 or weeping, plum of the Japanese. 



Cerastes Laurocerasus var. colchica. Hardly worth keeping 

 distinct as a variety of the common laurel, though the leaves are 

 more pointed. 



Spirce^a Reevesn. According to Dr. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 

 Miscel. 93. 1841, this is the Spiraea lanceolata of M. Cam- 

 bassedes, a very desirable shrub, with clusters of large white 

 flowers. 



Hufois lasiocarpus. All the plants which I have seen, or raised 

 myself from Indian seeds, under this name, are not different from 

 R. pauciflorus (R. micranthus Arb. Brit.), a plant with beautifully 

 varnished mahogany-coloured stems. 



CratcEgus sp. is certainly C. crenulata, or the Himalayan Py- 

 racantha, with rather longer and narrower leaves than the com- 

 mon Pyracantha, but only a variety of that species. It is quite 

 hardy. 



Viburmim Awafuki I have never seen ; but V. japonicum of 

 Sprengel is a species of Cornus. 



Viburnum sinense, or more properly V. odoratissimwn, has large 

 leaves, about the size of those of the common laurel, and very 

 like them. It is a very old plant, and tender. There is a varie- 

 gated var. of it. 



V. Mullaha. I have never been able to find any distinction 

 between this and V. cotinifolia, and I have raised plants several 

 times, both from seeds received from Drs. Royle and Wallich ; 

 and the plant published in the Bot. Reg. bore the name Mullaha 

 until published in that work by Dr. Lindley. 



Y.pygma: s a I have never seen, or heard of from Dr. Royle ; but 

 there is a V. pygmse N a in some collections from the nursery of 

 Messrs. Lee of Hammersmith, which is a very dwarf variety of 

 Guelder rose, not growing more than 1 ft. or 18 in. high, and 

 corresponding with this description exactl}\ 



Jasmimmi clirysantlram of Roxb. is the same as J. revolutum 

 of Wallich. 



