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Prunus (Bentham and Hooker include)

Bentham and Hooker include Cerasus under this genus. To the species and varieties described on pp. 235-7, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. domestica Plantierii (Plantier's). fl. pure white, semidouble, produced in abundance, and succeeded by black Plums of good flavour. 1885. Garden variety. P. hybrida reptans (hybrid, creeping). fl. red. Branches prostrate, divaricate. 1886. Garden hybrid. (R. H. 1886, pp. 416-7.) P. h. stricta (erect). fl. white. Branches erect. 1886. Garden hybrid. (R. G. 1886, pp. 416-7.) P. Jacquemontii (Jacquemont's). fl. often in pairs, very shortly pedicellate; calyx tube 1/6in. to 1/4in. long; petals pink, 1/6in. broad, orbicular; stamens about twenty. May. l. 2in. to 2 1/2in. long, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic, or nearly obovate, acute or acuminate, serrulate; petioles 1/6in. long. h. 6ft. to 10ft. Northwest Himalayas, 1886. Hardy shrub. (B. M. 6976.) P. japonica (Japanese). The correct botanical name of the plant described on p. 236, Vol. III., as P. sinensis.

P. j. sphaerica (spherical). This form only differs from the type in its somewhat larger, spherical fruits. (R. H. 1887, p. 136, f. 29.) P. Mume Alphandi (Alphand's). A variety having semidouble, rose-pink flowers. Japan, 1885. (R. H. 1885, p. 564.) SYN. Armeniaca Mume Alphandi.