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PRUNUS japonica. 
Double-flowered chinese plum-tree. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNLIA. 
PRUNUS. Cal. inferus, campanulatus, 5-fidus, deciduus. Pet. 5. 
ori calycis inserta, segmentis alterna. Stam. ibidem adnata sub petalis. 
Germ. 1. Stigma 1. Drupa: nux monosperma suturis prominulis. 
Arbuscule ; folia alterna, stipulacea. Interddim pologyna; quod 
forsin lusus lucurie, Separatur & Jusseo in CerasuM, Prunum, 
& ARMENIACAM. 
P. japonica, (inermis) foliis ovato-v. ovali-lanceolatis, duplicato-serratis, 
glabris; pedunculis geminis y. solitariis, striato-teretibus, folio duplo 
brevioribus ; pistillo in medio villoso. 
Prunus japonicus. Thunb. jap. 201. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 994. 
Arbuscula glabra; rami teretes, cortice cinereo lucido. Folia decidua, 
petiolata, ultra unciam longa, protractits acuminata, immerse Nervosa, VenU~ 
losa: stipule 2, herbacee, lineari-subulate, serrato-dentate, petiolum 
equantes aut excedentes. Flores albo-incarnati semunciam magisve transversi : 
pedunculi uniflori, semunciales, ¢ gemmis modd sub ramulum aggregatis, 
modo solitariis huicque sublateralibus, rarissimé & centro gemme communis. 
Cal. pallidé virens, venosus, tubo brevi oblaté campanulato entagono, seg- 
mentis recurvo-rotatis, ovatis, obtusis, serratis. Pet. Baboon: elliptica, 
acutula, basi angustata, Germ, viridia, gemina, raro trina, viz unquam 
unicum » stylus albescens, subvillosus : stigma simplex, 
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It is now at least seven or eight years since this pretty 
flowered species first appeared in England; but we believe 
it has not been recognised till at present, from -the time of 
Thunberg’s notice of it in its native place. We met with 
the specimen, from a branch of which the drawing was 
made, in the conservatory appropriated to chinese vege- 
tables, at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in Ham- 
mersmith ; where it formed a small branching tree, about 
five feet high, and was covered with bloom by the begin- 
ning of April. The petals of the flower are somewhat mul- 
tiplied, but not so as to destroy fertility; its small uneat- 
able fruit being (as we were informed) perfected every year, 
and generally by pairs on each stalk, an effect probably of 
luxuriant variety. 
Its introduction is due to the late Mr, Charles Greville, 
who received it from China, and was the first to cultivate 
it in his botanic garden at Paddington. We suspect that, 
