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additional petals assume the place of the remaining stamens, 

 taking the likeness of those petals to which they stand next. 

 The ovarium is also represented by a petal, the middle nerve 

 of which answering to the back of the pod is hairy and dis- 

 coloured, and the edges answering to the placenta are coloured 

 and petaloid. 



Plants were presented to the Society by Mr. John Miller 

 of Bristol in whose nursery it was first raised. It has also 

 been received from Mr. Fall a of Newcastle. 



XLV. Prunus serrulata. 



P. foliis obovatis acuminatis setaceo-serrulatis glaberrimis, petiolis glandulosis, 

 floribus fasciculatis. 



This species was sent to the Society from China by Mr. 

 Reeves in 1822, under the name of Yung-to ; and in the same 

 year was presented by Mr. Samuel Brookes, by whom it had 

 also been imported. It is usually known by the name of the 

 Double Chinese Cherry. It is a handsome plant, resembling 

 the common cherry, from which it differs in the outline of its 

 leaves, in their surface, and in the nature of the serratures, 

 which are very fine and bristle pointed. In general appear- 

 ance the foliage is particularly glossy. The flowers appear in 

 April in great abundance ; they are of a clear transparent 

 white ; the petals are numerous, and disposed one above the 

 other in such a way as to preserve the pentagonal or quinary 

 arrangement that exists in the single flower. When the 

 flowers are produced in the open air they acquire a beautiful 

 tinge of pink. 



One of the plants in the Arboretum of the Society's Garden 

 died during the winter of 1825-6, but as others have in other 



