Tas. 5793. 
ACER RUFINERVE; var. albo-limbata. 
fed-nerved Maple,—white-bordered variety. 
Nat. Ord. SapinpacE&#.—PoLyGAMiA OCTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char.—F lores seepissime polygamo-dieci. Calyx sepius 5-partitus, 
deciduus, imbricatus. Petala 0 v. lobis calycinis isomera. Discus annu- 
laris, lobatus. Stamina sepius 8, disco inserta, filamentis filiformibus. 
Ovarium 2-lobum, 2-loculare, septo contrarie compressum; styli 2, inter 
_ lobos ovarii inserti, filiformes, intus longe stigmatosi; ovula in loculis 2, 
superposita v. collateralia. Samare 2, divaricate, 1—2-sperme, longe 
alate, alis elongatis oblique dilatatis. Semina adscendentia, compressa, testa 
membranacea, endopleura carnosa; embryo conduplicatus.—Arbores succo 
aqueo, rarius saccharato, rarissime lacteo. Folia opposita, decidua, integra 
lobata v. subpedatim 5—7-partita. Flores racemosi v. corymbost, axillares et 
terminales. : 
Acer rufinerve ; foliis e basi cordato, palmato, 8—5-lobis argute duplicato 
serratis superne glabris, subtus ad nervos rufo-lanatis demum glabratis, 
lobis deltoideis abrupte caudato-acuminatis lateralibus brevioribus, ra- 
cemis simplicibus multifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis, sepalis ob- 
longis petalis obovatis paulo brevioribus ovarioque glabris, samare alis 
late cultratis rotundatis adscendentibus. 
Acer rufinerve, Siebold et Zuccarini, Fl. Japon. v. ii. t. 158, ined. ex. Fl. 
Jap. Fam. Nat., Sect. i. p. 47. Miquel Prolus. Fl. Japon. p. 20, et 
“ Sur les Erables du Japon,” in Archives Néerlandaises, v. ii. 1867. 
Var. albo-limbata ; marginibus foliorum albo marmoratis. 
The Japanese Maples, of which many species are now to be 
found in our gardens in a young state, are amongst the most 
beautiful novelties of late introduced into the Arboretum, 
for that many of them will prove as hardy as their fellow- 
countrymen, the Salisburia, Sophora japonica, and Aucuba, 
can no longer be doubted. Our figure represents one of the 
noblest of these in foliage, and a very remarkable variety of 
it, exhibiting that variegation so frequent amongst Japan 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869. 
