Prunus cyclamina Koehne

This was introduced by Wilson from W. Hupeh in 1907 and also in 1904 from W. Szechwan, when collecting for Messrs Veitch, in whose nursery it first flowered. It differs from P. dielsiana in the leaves being nearly or quite glabrous below, and in the glabrous leaf-stalk and calyx-tube. The flowers are a charming pink and a little over 1 in. wide, the oblong petals deeply notched at the end. The lobes of the calyx are longer than the tube and are much reflexed as in P. dielsiana; their resemblance to the recurved petals of a cyclamen suggested the specific name. Both species have very linear stipules about {1/2} in. long, conspicuously fringed with stalked glands.At The Grange, Benenden, Kent, P. cyclamina has made a small, spreading tree which attained a height of 18 ft in thirty years. It is quite hardy there and produces self-sown seedlings, but Capt. Ingram suggests it might be more vigorous if grafted on gean. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 338.