XXVI. ROSA‘CEZ: CE/RASUS. 298 
Ensravings. Fi. Mex. Icon, ined. ; Pl. Mex. Icon. ined. ; Hern, Mex. Icon., 95. ; and our jig. 479. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, serrated, and glabrous, resembling in form, 
and nearly in size, those of Salix fragilis. Racemes lateral and terminal. 
Fruit globose, resembling, in form and colour, that of C. sylvéstis. (Dec. 
Prod.) A handsome sub-evergreen low tree or shrub. Mexico, in temperate 
and cold places. Height 6 ft.to 12 ft. Introduced in 1820. Flowers white; 
May. Drupe red; ripe in August. 
The plant bearing this name in the Hort. Soc. Garden has leaves broader 
than those of Salix fragilis; and, taken altogether, it is of more luxuriant 
growth than C. virginiana. It is, however, less hardy as a plant in the open 
garden, and was killed to the ground in the winter of 1837-8, In favourable 
situations, however, it is a very desirable species, being a remarkably free 
flowerer, and ripening abundance of fruit, which have stones as large as those 
of the wild cherry. 
&% 27. C. NEPALE’NsIs Ser. The Nepal Bird- 
Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Seringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540.; Don’s Mill., 
as ae Prunus glaucifdlius Wall. MSS. 
Engraving. Our fig. 480., from a specimen in Dr. Lindley’s her- 
barium, 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves resembling in form those 
of Salix fragilis; long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
serrate, with biunt teeth, glabrous, whitish be- 
neath; the veins much reticulated; and the 
axils of the larger of them hairy. Peduncle 
short, and, as well as the rachis, slightly villose. 
Calyx glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous 
shrub or low tree. Nepal. Height 6 ft. to 
12 ft. Introd. 1820. Flowers white; May. 
Drupe ?. 
480. Cérasus nepalénsis. 
B. Species of Bird-Cherry Trees which have not yet been introduced, or of which 
we have not seen Plants, 
¥ C. acuminata Wall. (Pl. Rar. Asiat., ii. 
p. 78. t.181.; and our fig. 481.) is a Nepal 
tree, growing to the height of 20 or 30 feet, 
with the flowers in axillary racemes, and 
nodding, a little shorter than the leaves. 
a C. emarginata Dougl. (Hook. I. Bor. 
Amer., p. 169.) is a shrub, growing to the 
heivht of 6 or 8 feet, with its flowers in co- 
rymbuse racemes ; having oval, serrulated, 
glabrous leaves ; and globose fruit, astringent 
to the taste. The leaves are 2in. long; the 
flowers are white ; and the wood red, with 
white spots. It is found wild about the 
upper part of the Columbia River, especially dBi. Céraaue acusdinatas 
about the Kettle Falls, 
¥ C. capricidaG.Don. The Goat-killing Bird Cherry. Prinus capricidaWall.; 
P. undulata Hamilt. in D. Don’s Prod. Nepal. p. 239.; C. undulata Dec. 
Prod. ii. p. 540.— Leaves elliptic, acuminated, coriaceous, glabrous, quite 
entire, with undulately curled margins. Petioles glandulous. Racemes either 
solitary or aggregate by threes, many-flowered, glabrous, shorter than the 
leaves. (Don’s Mill. ii. p.515.) A handsome showy tree, probably evergreen, 
a native of Nepal, at Narainhetty ; where the leaves are found to contain so 
large a quantity of prussic acid as to kill the goats which browse upon them. 
Royle seems to consider C. undulata and C. capricida as distinct species ; and 
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