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reddish tinge on their margins, and on the midribs. The other, C. si-. 
nénsis described below, the Prinus japonica of Ker, and of the Ham- 
mersmith and other nurseries, may be known in the winter season by 
the light green or greyish colour of the bark of its young shoots ; by 
its larger, paler-coloured, and comparatively rugose leaves, doubly or 
coarsely serrated ; and by its more compact habit of growth. The 
flowers of this sort are also on longer peduncles, resembling those of a 
cherry ; while the flowers of C. jap. miltiplex, the Am¥gdalus ptumila 
or double dwarf almond of the nurseries, have much shorter peduncles, 
and are sometimes nearly sessile, giving the plant more the appear- 
ance of a Prunus than that of a Cérasus. The C. japénica miltiplex 
has been in cultivation in British gardens, under the name of Amyg- 
dalus pumila, since the days of Bishop Compton ; and, though it is 
stated in books to have been introduced from Africa, there can be 
little doubt of its being of Asiatic origin. The great confusion 
_ which exists respecting these two plants, in botanical works, has 
induced us to examine, with particular attention, the plants of them 
that are in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the Hammer 
smith Nursery. In the former garden, there was (June 10. 1837) a 
Cérasus japénica in its single state, but not in its double state ; the 
plant bearing the name of C’. japénica flore pléno being unquestionably 
the C. sinénsis described below, the Prinus japénica of the nurseries. 
In the Hammersmith Nursery, there were then some dozens of plants 
of C. japénica miltiplex, there called Amygdalus pumila, or the double 
dwarf almond, growing in parallel nursery lines, with some dozens 
of plants of C. sinénsis, there called Prinus japénica, or the double 
Chinese almond. We have considered it necessary to be thus particular, 
to justify us for having deviated from the Bot. Mag. and Bot. Reg. 
«1 19. C. stne’nsis G. Don. The Chinese Cherry. 
Identification. Don’s Mill., 2. p. 514. 
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Prinus jap er in Bot. Reg. t. 27. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t.27.; and our fig. 469. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, doubly serrated, wrinkled from veins 
beneath. Peduncles sub-aggregate. (Don’s Mill.) A highly ornamental 
low shrub. China. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1810. Flowers semi- 
double, red above, and white underneath, produced in great profusion on 
the preceding year’s branches ; April and May. 
There is no single state of this species in 
Britain, but there was in 1836 a plant of the 
double variety against a wall in the Hort. Soc. 
Garden, named C. japénica flore pléno; and, 
as noticed under the preceding species, there 
were many plants in the Hammersmith Nur- 
sery, under the name of P. japénica, or the 
double Chinese almond. The plant is some- 
what more tender than C. j. multiplex, which 
is well known in gardens as a hardy border 
shrub; and, except in favourable situations, 
it requires to be planted against a wall. 
Though C. sinénsis and C. japonica are quite 
distinct, there is nothing in that distinctness, 
as it appears to us, to determine that they are 
not varieties of. the same species. 
469 Cérasus sinénsis. 
& 20. C. sati’cIna G. Don. The Willow-leaved Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Don’s Mill., 2. p. 514. 
Synonymes. Prinus salicina Lindi. in Hort. Trans.; Ching-Cho-Lee, or Tung-Choh-Lee, Chinese. 
Engraving. Fig. 470. from a specimen in the herbarium of Dr. Lindley. 
Spec. Char., §c, Flowers usually solitary, shorter than the leaves. Leaves 
