TREES AND SHRUBS DECIDUOUS 



The "keys" in erect racemes form a feature during the early summer 

 months when the light green colour is relieved by the dark green of 

 the foliage. 



ACER FRANCHETI, Pax. 



Jour. R.H.S. 1904, vol. xxix. p. 353, fig. 88; Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, pt. iv. 



pi. Ixxxvii. 



A species allied to the Himalayan Acer villosum, from which it may 

 be distinguished by trilobed leaves, the small teeth on the margin and 

 the simple inflorescence. A common tree in Hupeh, Central China, 

 raised from seed collected in that locality by Wilson. 



ACER GRISEUM, Pax. 



Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 100; Jour. R.H.S. 1904, vol. xxix. p. 354. 



A handsome species, the Chinese representative of a maple found 

 in Japan, Acer nikoense. 



Attaining in Central China a height of from 15 to 40 ft., the young 

 foliage is beautifully coloured in the early spring, and the bark peels as 

 in the common Silver Birch. 



Discovered by Dr. Henry, and introduced to cultivation through Wilson, 

 who sent seed in 1901. 



ACER HENRYI, Pax. 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 1896; Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 100; Sargent's Trees and 



Shrubs, pt. iv. p. 181. 



A Chinese species of the Negundo section of Acer, specimens of which 

 were first collected in the Province of Hupeh by Dr. Henry. 



The species is remarkable for the great length of the samara in a young 

 state of a bright red colour. The petioles of the long leaves have three 

 ovate acuminate leaflets. 



Young plants at Coornbe were raised from seed collected in Central 

 China in 1903. 



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ACER L^TUM, C. A. Mey., var. CULTRATUM, Pax. 

 Jour. R.H.S. 1904, vol. xxix. p. 354, fig. 101. 



This form with five-lobed leaves of a lively shining green colour, borne 

 on a rather dwarf-growing plant, was raised at Coombe Wood in 1902 

 from seed collected in Central China by Wilson. 



ACER L^TUM, C. A. Mey., var. TRICAUDATUM, Behd. 

 Jour. R.H.S. 1904, vol. xxix. figs. 100, 102. 



A new form discovered in Central China named by Mr. A. Rehder 

 of the Arnold Arboretum, Mass., U.S.A. 



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