Prunus 1547 



3. Prunus australis, Beadle, in Biltm. Bot. Studies, i. 162 (1902). Branchlets, 

 axis of the inflorescence, and pedicels pubescent. Leaves covered beneath with 

 reddish brown pubescence. Fruit dark purple. Occurs only in one locality, on 

 clay soil at Evergreen in Alabama, where it is a tree about 60 ft. high. 



4. Prunus alabamensis, Mohr, m. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 1899, p. 118. Branch- 

 lets, axis of the inflorescence, and pedicels pubescent. Leaves slightly pubescent 

 beneath. Fruit purple. A tree about 30 ft. high, occurring in the mountains of 

 Alabama and Georgia. 



5. Prunus Capuli, Cavanilles, ex Sprengel, Syst. ii. 477 (1825); Hemsley, in 



Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot. \. 367 (1879); Bolle, in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges. 1898, 



p. 56. 



Cerasus Capollin, De CandoUe, Prod. ii. 539 (1825) ; Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. ii. 713 (1838). 

 Cerasus Capuli, Lavall^e, Arb. Segrez. 115, t. 34 (1885). 



Leaves lanceolate, long acuminate at the apex ; underneath without bands 01 

 pubescence along the midrib. Inflorescence long and slender, fruit larger than in 

 P. serotina. This occurs in the mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, and 

 Guatemala. It is said by Loudon to have been introduced in 1820; and in 1838 a 

 vigorous tree, trained against a wall in the Horticultural Society's Garden, retained 

 its leaves nearly all the winter. It is cultivated in France,^ where, according to 

 Lavallde, it was introduced in 1867, and endured the severe winter of 1879-1880; 

 and in Algeria attains about 30 ft. in height. 



6. Prunus salicifolia, Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Spec. 

 vi. 190, t. 563(1825). An evergreen tree, occurring in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, 

 and Bolivia. It diflfers little in botanical characters from P. Capuli. Not introduced. 



II. A number of varieties have appeared in cultivation in Europe : — 



7. Var. variegata, Zabel, Laubkols-Benennung, 244 (1903). Leaves variegated 

 with white. 



8. Va.v. pendula, Dippel, LaubAolskunde, iii. 645 (1893). Branches pendulous. 



9. Var. salicifolia^ Nicholson, Kew Hand-List Trees, i. 144 (1894). 



Yax. pkelloides, Schwerin, in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges. 1906, p. 3. 



Leaves lanceolate, long acuminate at the apex. 



This variety, which has been confused with P. Capuli, is represented at Kew 

 by a tree, about 30 ft. high, which flowers and fruits at the same season as the type, 

 and is equally hardy. It may possibly have come from the United States, where 

 narrow-leaved forms are said to occur. 



10. Var. aspleniifolia, Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 260 (1864). Leaves irregularly 

 dentate. 



11. Var. cartilaginea, Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 260(1864). Leaves very shining 

 on both surfaces. (A. H.) 



1 Cf. Hamelin, in Rev. Hort. Ivi. in (1884), and Carri^re, in Rev. Sort. Ixiii. 62, 196, figs. 19,20(1891). Sargent 

 states that plants of reputed P. Capuli, from France, proved hardy in the Arnold Arboretum ; and he doubts their Mexican 

 origin. I saw a tree about 46 ft. high under this name at Segrez in 1907, and raised seedlings from its fruit, which are alive 

 at Colesborne, but do not grow as vigorously as the northern form.— H. J. E. 



2 This variety must not be confused with Prunus salicifolia, H.B.K., mentioned above. 



