By Mr. John Lindley. 



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places in the Garden exhibited no perceptible impatience of 

 cold, it may be inferred that the plant alluded to perished from 

 some unknown cause, and not from frost. 



One of the most ornamental hardy plants with which I am 

 acquainted, and far more beautiful than any of the double 

 Cherries commonly in cultivation. 



XLVI. Prunus salicina. 



F. floribus subsolitariis foliis brevioribus, foliis obovatis acuminatis glanduloso- 

 serratis glabris, stipulis subulatis glandulosis petioli longimdinr, prtiolis eglandu- 

 losis, ramis inermibus. 



This, which is commonly called the Chinese plum, was 

 originally sent by Mr. Reeves from China to the Society in 

 1822, under the name of the Ching-Cho-Lee, or Tsing-chok- 

 Lee Plum. It is not referable to any of the species hitherto 

 published, but seems to bear a close affinity to the Prunus 

 glandulosa, a Japanese plant described by Thunberg, which 

 has pink flowers and strongly reticulated leaves with an ob- 

 long outline. 



The plants in the Garden are either in pots in a forcing 

 house, or trained against a south wall ; in these situations the 

 shoots are glaucous-green, slender, and free from spines. 

 Leaves of rather a thinner texture than those of the common 

 Plum, obovate, acuminate, finely serrulate, each serrature 

 being tipped with a minute semitransparent yellowish gland ; 

 beneath they are quite smooth and slightly reticulated ; above, 

 glossy and rugulose. Petioles short, without glands. Sti- 

 pules as long as the petioles, subulate, persistent, frequently 

 pinnatifid at the base, fringed with glands like those of the 

 leaves. Flowers small, white, growing singly or several to- 

 gether, on short footstalks, perfectly smooth. Divisions of 



