Acer.] xxvii. sapindace^e. Ill 



3. A. pentapomicum, J. L. Stewart. Vern. Trekan(a), kukandra, ka- 

 k(a)rdi, kakkri, kitla, mandar(di) kunghi, tlan, tilpatto, kilpattar, serdn, 

 Kashmir and Panjab. 



Leaves broader than long, sometimes 3-5-lobed, with truncate base, and 

 3 prominent penniveined basal nerves ; lobes spreading, oval acute or acu- 

 minate, obtusely dentate, separated by right-angled or acute-angled sinus, 

 length of middle lobe about twice its width ; the lower leaves often 5- 

 lobed, with cordate base, and 2 additional smaller basal nerves. Petioles 

 generally as long as leaf, glabrous when full-grown. Under side and peti- 

 oles of young leaves clothed with soft tomentum, old leaves pale beneath, 

 glabrous on both sides, or with short soft hairs beneath ; tufts of hairs 

 in the axils of basal nerves. Plowers not known, fruit in short corymbs, 

 wings erect or divergent, semi-ovate, with straight back. 



Common locally, and at times almost gregarious, between 2300 and 7000 ft., 

 in exposed hot dry places, not as a rule in thick forests, in the basins of almost 

 all the great rivers in the Panjab, Himalaya from the Jhelam to the Sutlej, 

 and east of the latter. Not found on the Bias. Fl. Feb., March ; the fruit ripens 

 April, June. 



Grows not nearly to such a size as the other species ; the largest trunk noted 

 by Dr Stewart, much above the average, measured 5^ ft. in girth. Twigs 

 smooth, grey or reddish, bark of trunk brownish grey, not much marked by 

 cracks or fissures. Wood used for ordinary domestic and agricultural purposes. 



This species was discovered by Dr Stewart, and (doubtfully) identified by him, 

 in Pb. Plants 30, with A. creticum, Linn., but subsequently recognised as a new 

 species. It has no close affinity to any of the known species with 3-lobed leaves. 

 The leaves are much larger than those of A. monspessulanum, L., or creticum, L., 

 and are different in shape. Of the Japanese A. trifidum, Thunb., the leaves 

 are much longer than broad. Without flowers, the affinity of the species cannot, 

 however, be determined. It is not impossible that further inquiry may show 

 this tree to be nearly allied to A. Pseudoplatanus, L. 



4. A. villosum, Wall. PL As. rar. ii. 4. 



Buds and young leaves covered with long silky hairs. Leaves cordate, 

 5-lobed, the 2 outer lobes small, irregularly and remotely dentate, on 

 petioles exceeding half the length of leaf ; basal nerves 5, the 3 inner pen- 

 niveined. Flowers pentamerous, in lateral, more or less compound racemes, 

 at the end of short lateral branchlets, appearing before the leaves. Pe- 

 duncles and pedicels hairy ; sepals oblong, with 3 nerves ; petals linear, 

 narrower than sepals ; sepals and petals generally ciliate. Disc membran- 

 ous. Stamens 8, in the male flowers much longer than calyx. Wings of 

 fruit erect or divergent, back incurved ; nuts large, the 2 nuts together 

 forming a semicircle J- J in. across. 



Himalaya, at high elevations (7000-9000 ft.), not uncommon from the Jhelam 

 to Kamaon. Chur, Royle. Deoban range, D.B. Fl. Feb., March ; leaves 

 appear in May ; fruit ripens from June onward. A large, handsome tree, 

 smaller branches brown, striate, bark of stem grey and fairly smooth. 



5. A. caesium, Wall. (Herb. Kew). Tab. XXL Yern. Kilu, trekhan, 

 tarkhana, kilpattar, tilpattar, mandar, mandari, mandarang, kauri, kal- 

 Indra, salima, kanzal, Pb. ; Kanshin, Tibet (N.W.P.) 



