Prwiiis.] LI. EOSACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 317 



nica, Miq., but calyx very different and drupe larger. Kurz however refers to this 

 l)oth P.javanioa and Junghmhnianaot Miquel (Journ. As, Soc. Beng. 1871, ii. 52, and 

 Andaman Keports, ed. ii. 37). 



12. P. acuminata, Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 78, 1. 181 (Cerasus) ; glabrous 

 throughout, leaves lanceolate caudate-acuminate quite entire or remotely serrate,, 

 racemes axillary solitary or fascicled very slender, petals oMong, stamens about 

 15. Wall. Cat. 719. 0. integerrima, Wall. Cat. 722. 



Temperate Central and Eastern Himalaya, from Nepai. and Sikkii| alt. 5-7000 ft, 

 to MiSHMi. Khasia Mts. alt. 4000 ft. 



A tree 30-40 ft. ; branches slender. Leaves 4-7 in., flat, smooth on both sur- 

 feces, hardly shining above, base rounded or acute, sometimes dotted beneath with 

 minute glands, or glands or few and scattered ; nerves 8-10 pair, obliquely ascend- 

 ing, slender but evident ; petiole J in., eglandular ; stipules linear. Bacemes 3-5 in., 

 suberect or drooping, many-flowered ; pedicels J in., slender ; bracts minute. Flowers 

 J-^ in. diam., yellowish-white. Calyx-tvhe broadly campanulate ; limb patent, ob- 

 scurely 5-toothed. Ovary villous. Drupe ovoid, subacute, ^ in. long ; stone thin, 

 quite smooth. 



13. P. punctata, Hooh.f. Sr T. in Herb. Ind. Or. {Cerasus) ; quite gla- 

 brous, leaves oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate quite entire or serrulate dotted 

 with minute glands beneath, racemes subcorymbiform, stamens about 30. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft., Jenkins, etc. 



A shrub or small tree with slender pendulous branchlets, the youngest puberu- 

 lous. Leaves 3-5 in., caudate points curved very long obtuse, base acute, smooth 

 on both surfaces, shining above ; nerves 8-10 pairs, slender, obliquely arched ; pe- 

 tiole i in., eglandular ; stipules filiform. Racemes axillary, solitary, shorter than 

 the leaves, 8-1 0-flowered ; peduncle very slender; pedicels J--^ in., subcorymbose to- 

 wards the top of the peduncle. Flowers J in. diam. Calyx-tvie obconic ; lobes 5, 

 rounded, ciliate. Petals orbicular, ciliate. Ovary glabrous. Drupe globose ; stone 

 thin-walled, quite smooth. 



14. P. Jenkinsii, Hooh.f. §• Thorns, in Herh. Ind Or. {Cerasus) ; leaves 

 linear-oblong caudate-acuminate serrate imdulate shining eglandular, racemes ax- 

 illary short cylindric dense-flowered pubescent, stamens about 50. 



Assam, Jenhms ; at Choorpura, (Upper Assam), Griffith. 



Branches black, stout, glabrous. Leaves 5-7 in., tip obtuse, base acute, red-brown 

 above when dry, paler beneath, mar^n undulate, teeth when present remote; 

 nerves 10-15 pair, obliquely arching; petiole^ in., eglandular ; stipules linear-lan- 

 ceolate. Eaeemes 1^-2^^ in., strict, erect, usually densely clothed with flowers to the 

 base which is enclosed in concave orbicular scales ; pedicels very smooth. Calyx-tuhe 

 turbinate ; lobes rounded, ciliate. Petals small, orbicular, erose. Ovary glabrous. 

 Drjjpe'with the stone f in., broadly ovoid, obtuse, rugose, and with a thick ridge on 

 one side, walls very thick and hard. 



4. niASSENIA, Hodk.f. ^ Thorns, 



Deciduous leaved trees. Leaves alternate, glandular-fringed or -serrate ; sti- 

 pules conspicuous, gland-serrate. Flowers in racemes or corymbs, sub-unisexual. 

 ' Calyx-tube turbinate, 10-lobed, some of the lobes often produced into oblong 

 tomentose petals. Stamens 20-30, in one series, filaments inciu-ved; anthers 

 small. Cm-pels 1, with a slender style and usually not perfecting, or two with 

 shorter or no styles and larger stigmas, one or both perfecting ; ovules 2, colla- 

 teral,' pendulous. Fruit an oblong drupe ; pericarp thin ; stone rather bony. Co- 

 tyledons thick, oblong. Distrib. Two Indian species. 



A form between Pygeum and Prmms, differing from both in the frequent twin 



