

WILD MAPLE OF TLKKESTAN. 



This unidentified species of Acer grows on the hottest, drycst and most arid slopes of the 

 mountains of Bachar-den, at elevations of 5,000 feet and over. Its small leaves vary 

 widely in shape, all forms being found from tri-lobed to entire. It probably has some 

 value as an ornamental in the most .severe parts of the southwestern United States. (Fig. 4.) 



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