696 XLIV. SAPINDACE^:. (W. P. Hiern.) [Acer. 



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



12. A.'Campbellii, Hook f. & Thorns, mss. in HI. Kew. ; Brand. For. 

 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., Serb. Griffith, J. D. H. 



A tree of 50 ft. Leaves of a beautifully green colour, pendulous, pilose beneath 

 Avhen quite young, 3-5 by 4-7 in. ; lobes* lanceolate or ovate-caudate; petioles red- 

 dish, lif-3. Cymes 2-6 in. long ; flowers short, green. Sepals 5, ovate. JRefa/* white, 

 shorter than the sepals, obtuse, plicate at base. Stamens 8, reddish, about equalling 

 the calyx; filaments short. Fruit glabrous, f-1 in. long; carpels divaricate; wings 

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



13. A. pictum, Th H til. FL Jap. 1G2 ; leaves 5-7-lobed submembranous 

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

 sides green base cordate or hollowed lobes lanceolate or caudate entire, 

 cymes corymbose appearing with the leaves. Jiwmil. for. Ft. 112; Mi<f. 

 Ann. Jftt, L'xj'l. />'"t. i. ^">1. A. lictum, C. A. M-y. V< rz. /'//. <', t .,<c. 206; 

 Boiss. FL Ori-iit. i. '' !!>. A. triuicatiim, A'//////'' Kmim. PL C/ti/vt H<>r. lo. 

 A. cultratum, Wall. PI. An. I!r. ii. 4; \\'<i". Cat. l^i's. A. colchicum, 

 Hort. A. sU-rruliamim, '/////'. It in. Sole* 148, not of Wall. A. Mono, 

 Maxim. Pr'nn. Fl. Amur. 68. 



TKMIT.I:ATI: HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 4-6000 ft., to Bhotan, alt. 9-10,000 ft. 

 l>i.<Ti;ii;. Kastward to China, .Japan, and westward to Persia and the Catu 



A beautiful tree of small or moderate size. Leaves 2-5^ by 2-6 in. ; petioles gla- 

 brous, 1-44 i n - Cymes 1-6 in.; flowers fr-l in. Imitr, on slender pedicels. 

 long. 7*' /<//* snatliulate, equalling the eal\x. >S7r////< //v H, included. Fruit glabrous; 

 <-arpels 1. 1-1:1 in. l< ( ng, divaiicating almost ^ in one line; wings sinuous, venose, back 

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



20. DOBINEA, Ilamilt. 



A shrub with terete virgate branches. Leaves undivided, serratcly 

 toothed, opposite, exstipulate, ])ftiolecl. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 

 leafy below, flowers small unisexual, glabrous. Calyx cup-shaped, -1-dentate, 

 base subturbinate, altogether wanting in the female flower. Petttf* 4, lan- 

 ceolate-spathulate, exceeding the calyx, wanting in the female flower. 

 8tamens 8, alternately shorter, exserted, glabrous, wanting in the female 

 flower ; anthers short. Disk wanting in the male, annular in the female 

 flower, glabrous. Ovary sessile, lenticular, 1 -celled, rudimentary in the 

 male flower ; style filiform, spirally involute, stigmatose on the inner side 

 and at the apex ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit compressed, shortly ciliated 

 on the margin, indehiscent, borne on widely bracteate pedicels, the lunrt 

 being adnate to the pedicel and exceeding both it and the fruit, 

 solitary, compressed, exalbuminous, exarillate ; testa membranous ; coty- 

 ledons flat, accumbent ; radicle short. DISTEIB. A monotypic genus. 



1. D. vulgraris, Ilamilt. ex D. Don Proflr. 249 ; leaves elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate acutely acuminate minutely hairy on veins, acumen quite entire base 

 rounded. Wall. Cat. 1229. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft., /. D. H.; 

 Mishmi hills, Griffith. 

 Branched, 5-8 ft. high, aromatic or with smell of ivy. Branchlets shortly pubescent. 



