plants, and which the Japanese themselves so sedulously 
encourage in their gardens and pleasure grounds. 
Acer rufinerve is a native of Nagasaki and Yokohama, two 
widely-separated localities, with very different climates ; and 
there are specimens of the white-bordered variety in the Kew 
Herbarium, collected by the eminent Russian traveller and 
botanist, Maximowicz, in the town of Jedo. The figured 
specimen is from the nurseries of Mr. Standish, and was ex- 
hibited at the Horticultural Society in May of the present 
year. 
Desor. A largetree. Branches stout ; branchlets, peduncles, 
petioles, and often midrib of the leaf below pale red. Leaves 
palmately three- to five-lobed, cordate at the base, three to 
five inches long and broad ; rufous-pubescent or woolly below 
on the nerves when young, glabrous when old, lobes broadly 
ovate or triangular abruptly cordate-acuminate, doubly 
serrate, deep green, mottled along the border with white ; 
petiole one to one and a half inches long. Racemes pendulous ; 
flowers green, quarter of an inch in diameter. Calya-lobes 
obovate-oblong. Petals broadly obovate, crenate. Stamens 
eight. Fruiting raceme lengthened. Samaras one to one and 
a half inches across the pair; wings slightly falcate, rounded 
at the apex.—J. D. #. 
: Fig. i, Flower; 2, the same seen from the outside; 3, stamen; 4, 
fruit:—all but fig. 4 magnified. 
