ICONES FLANTARUM. 13 
Prate 1019. 
LIQUIDAMBAR ORIENTALIS, J/iil. 
HAMAMELIDEX. 
L. orientalis, Mill.; DC. Prod. xvi. 158 ; foliis ee palmati-quin- 
quefidis ate us tri- v. septem-fidis) serrulatis, subtus gla v. axillis ner- 
continuo v. leviter corrugato.— L. imberbe 
The only wild specimens which I lave s seen are from Asia Minor, from the 
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Mr. Hanbury. Specimens from the Botanic Gardens of Venice, Marseilles, 
and St. Mandrier, near Toulon, are in the same herbarium, and agree with 
the wild ones, excepting, as Mr. Hanbury observed to me, in having the leaves 
wholly glabrous ; that is, eink the hairy tufts in the axils of the principal 
nerves on the under side of the leaf, which are noticeable in the indigenous 
specimens. 
The only good figure esleoies of this long-known tree accompanies a 
valuable memoir by Mr. ury, in the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal’ (March, 
1867), * On the Origin anit Preparation of Liquid Storax.” It is a species of 
peculiar interest as being, like Platanus orientalis, the solitary outlier of a Bes 
genus, the other species of which occur gS in North America and (in th 
case of Liguidambar) Kastern Asia. Both Liquidambar and Platanus ‘aie 
over, wee is reason to believe, were prevalent in Central Europe during g the 
Mioce 
Al * gh, as Dr. Hance observes (Seemann’s Journ. ee = Le so 
there can Ne little doubt that L. styraciflua and L. orienta 
forms from one parent type, beg in the rather numero ny aC which T 
have seen dried, or growing in yal Gardens, the differences between 
the two are generally so ae. that J think they cannot be regarded as 
conspecific in any usual, or useful, a of the term.* I “append a 
diagnosis of L. styraciflua for compari 
L. styracifi L.; DC. Prod. xvi. 157; foliis seepius ad apices ra- 
morum v. ramulorum brevium lateralium fasciculatis, palmati-quinquefidis 
(rarius tri- v. septem-fidis), serratis, subtus in axillis nervorum barbatis, lobis 
ovato-lanceolatis acutis ™. acuminatis indivisis (rarissime utrinque lobulo 
laterali) ; fructu preecedent 
This description is were upon specimens from various States of the North 
American Union. It is not a little remarkable, as Dr. Hooker pointed out 
to me some time ago, that the specimen labe ed L. imberbe, Ait., distributed 
by the late Dr. Kotschy, and collected in the garden of the Monastery of 
is but fair to observe that there is in the Kew Herbarium a solitary leafy specimen of 
L. acs without locality, which combines, to some extent, the characters of the two. 
