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Sect. IV. Leaves 7-5-lobed and -nerved. 



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12. A/Campbellil, Book /. <fe Thorns, mss. in Hh. Kew. ; Brand. F&r. 

 FL 109 ; leaves 5-7-lobed glabrescent except axils of the 5-7 basal nerves 

 serrulate both sides green base hollowed or truncate, cymes pyramidal or 

 elongated subglabrous appearing with the leaves. ,: - ^ 



' SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., Herb. Griffith, /. D. H. ., 



t'A tree of 50 ft. Leaves of a beautifully green colour, pendulous, pilose beneani 

 when quite young, 3-5 by 4-7 in.; lobes lanceolate or ovate-caudate; F*^*^^^,., ' 

 dish, l|-3. Cymes 2-6 in. long; flowers short, green. Sepals 5, ovate. ^«^^^g 

 shorter than the sepals, obtuse, plicate at base. Stamens 8, reddish, about ^^"^'."^ 

 the calyx; filaments short. Fruit glabrous, f-1 in. long; carpels divancale; wing 

 venose, widened above, back slightly curved; cells globose darker, nearly smootli. 



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13. A. pictum, Thmb. Fl. Jap. 162 ; leaves 5-7-lobed submembraaous 

 glabrescent except hairy tufts on the axils of the 5-7 basal nerves Doiu 

 sides green base cordate or hollowed lobes lanceolate or c^^^*® -MiQ' 

 cymes corymbose appearing with the leaves. Brand..For. FL W; ^; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i 251. A l^tum, G. A. Mey. Yen. Ffi-_ ^'^^'^■J;^^ 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 949. A truncatum, Bunqe Enum. Fl. <^fm«/5- "' 

 A. cultratum, Wall. PI. As. Far. ii. 4 : Wdll. Cat. 1228. A colchicwn, 

 Hm-t. A. sterculiaceum, Griff. Itin. Notes 148, not of Wall A- ^"'^ ' 

 Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. 68. 



Temperate 



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ERATE Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 4-6000 ft., to Bliotan, alt. 9-10,000 •- 



sTRiB. Eastward to China, Japan, and westward to Persia and the V?"'^^"'.;;ips el»- 



A beautiful tree of small or moderate size. Leaves 2-5i by 2^-6^ m. J.P®""'^^ 



brous, 1-44 in- Cyme» 1-6 in.; flowers J-1 in. long, on slender pedicels. /T. ^„g. 



. loiig. 4 Fttals spathulate, equalling the calyx. Stamens 8, included. ,-''"*"*'' ^j. 



~ carpels l^-lf in. long, divaricating almost in one lino ; wings sinuous, venose, 



arcuate ; cells compressed,— Wood white, light, fine-grained. 



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A shrub with terete virgate branches. Leaves Tin^i'^^^,^*^'„Sdal, 

 toothed, opposite, exstipulate, petioled. Panicles terminal, pyrf^jg^ 

 leafy below, flowers small unisexual, glabrous. Calyx cup-shaped, 4-"« j^^, 

 base subturbinate, altogether wanting in the female flower, retat^ ,^ 

 ceolate-spathulate, exceeding the calyx, wanting in the t.^^^^r fe^iale 

 ^tcimens 8, alternately shorter, exserted, glabrous, wanting in "le .^^^ 

 flower; anthers short/ jDw^- wanting in the male, annular m tne ^^^ 

 flower, glabrous. Ovary sessile, lenticular, 1 -celled, rudimentary .j;^jg 

 male flower ; style filiform, spirally involute, stigmatose on J^^ ""jiiated 

 and at the apex ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit compressed, sboruy ^^^^ 

 on the margin, indehiscent, borne on widely bracteate V^l^^f^J. Se^i 

 being adnate to tlie pedicel and exceeding both it and the irui • ^^^^ 

 solitary, compressed, exalbuminous, exariliate ; testa membranous . 

 ledons flat, accumbeut ; radicle short.— Distmb. A monotypic gen^ 



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 1. D. vulgaris, ffamilt. ex D. Don Prodr. 249 ; l^^^^^^Se base 

 ceolate acutely acuminate minutely hairy ou veins, acumen quiw " 

 rounded. Wall. Cat. 1229. . . , -^ -**f k /i>--^' 



^Central and Eastern Himalaya : Nipal. WalUch ; Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 «-, 

 Mishmi hills, Griffith. '^<^'vi^^C'-'-^^ =,,, J^ , .;3,,^*^v>'■>->ft --■ f r=-**'- . ,.t]v pubescent- 

 Branched, 5-8 ft. high, aromatic or with smell of ivy.'^ Branchlets sBonij' t 



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