Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

y Hohenacker, and in others from the Copenhagen
Gardens.
Prunus divaricata was introduced into England in 1822,
according to Loudon, probably from the Dorpat Gardens,
when under the direction of its describer Ledebour, and is
a small tree ten to twelve feet high and broad, forming a
hemispherical mass on the ground with a singularly grace-
ful ramification ; according to Boissier, it has a very wide
geographical range, from Macedonia to the Caucasus and
Northern Persia. The specimen at Kew was procured by
the late Curator, Mr. J. Smith, from Messrs. Osborne, of
Fulham, about thirty-eight years ago.
DESCE. A small tree, ten to twelve feet high, branching
from the very base, the branches numerous, slender, wide-
spreading, the lower lying almost flat on the ground ; the
whole forming a hemispherical or rounded mass ; branchlets
slender, glabrous. Leaves appearing with the flowers,
when young lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, pubescent in
the midrib and nerves beneath, when fully formed two by
one and a half inch long and broad, more ovate and often
subcordate at the base, finely serrate, and glabrous beneath ;
petiole slender, glabrous. Flowers three-quarters of an
inch in diameter, solitary from the flowering buds, pe-
duncle short, glabrous. Calyx with ovate-lanceolate re-
curved lobes. Petals rounded, concave. Stamens white
with yellow anthers. Ovaries one or two. Fruit one inch
long, ellipsoid or globose, base not intruded, yellow ; stone
(from native specimens) half an inch long, broadly ellipsoid,
compressed but turgid, obtuse at both ends, subacute
along one margin, and with a sharp-edged groove along the
other; faces quite smooth.•J. D. H.
Fig. 1, Flower cut vertically ; 2, ditto with petals removed, showing two ovaries
.i, stamens ; 4, stigma -.•all enlarged.