So far as appears from the few and scant European references to the species it has no horticultural value.
5. PRUNUS COCOMILIA Tenore.
1. Tenore Fl. Neap. Prodr. Suppl. 2:68. 1811. 2. Schneider Handb. Laubh. 1:628. 1906.
Tree shrub-like, top thick, broadly ovate; branches drooping, shoots short; branchlets glabrous, young wood olive or reddish-brown. Buds small, roundish-ovate; leaves roundish-obovate, sharply and distinctly serrated, glabrous or upon the ribs on the under side sparsely pubescent. Flowers usually in pairs, opening before or with the leaves, greenish-white, pedicels about the length of the calyx-cups. Fruit yellow, agreeable.
The writer has seen only herbarium specimens of this plant and has taken the description given from European texts. According to Schneider the species has been divided into two varieties by the Italian botanists. Prunus cocomilia typica having oblong-ovate fruit and Prunus cocomilia brutia having round fruit. Schneider holds also that Prunus pseudoarmeniaca Heldr. and Sart.[82] from Epirus and Thessaly is a variety of Prunus cocomilia differing chiefly in having more pointed leaves and smaller oblong-roundish red plums. The same author puts in this species still another plum, a hairy-leaved form from Thessaly which he calls Prunus cocomilia puberula. He places here also Prunus ursina Kotschy[83] which differs only in minor respects from the species, chiefly in having violet-red fruit though Boissier[84] mentions a yellow-fruited plum which he calls Prunus ursina flava. The last named plums come from Lebanon and North Syria.
6. PRUNUS CERASIFERA Ehrhart[85]
PRUNUS CERASIFERA
1. Ehrhart Beitr. Nat. 4:17. 1789. 2. Hooker Brit. Fl. 220. 1830. 3. Koch, K. Dend. 1:97. 1869. 4. Koch, W. Syn. Deut. und Schw. Fl. 1:727. 1892. 5. Bailey Cornell Sta. Bul. 38:66. 1892. 6. Schneider Handb. Laubh. 1:632. 1892. 7. Schwarz Forst. Bot. 339. 1892. 8. Dippel Handb. Laubh. 1:633. 1893.
P. domestica myrobalan. 9. Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 475. 1753. 10. Seringe DC. Prodr. 2:538. 1825.