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summer ; but their leaves are almost always more or less imperfect, especially 

 on the edges, and fall off much sooner in the autumn than those of the species. 

 The leaves of the purple variety are not liable to the same objection as those 

 of the variegated sorts. Seeds"; and the varieties by grafting on the species. 



IE 9. A. OBTUSA^TUM Kit. The obtuse-lobed- leaved Maple. 



Identification. Kit. in Willd. Spec., 4. p. 948. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 594. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 649. 

 Synonymes. A. neapolitanum Tenore : A. hfbridum in the Lond. Hort. Soc. Gard. in 1834 ; the 



Neapolitan Maple. 

 Engraving*. Tratt. Arch., 1. No. 14.; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. v. ; 



our Jig. 133. ; anAfig. 154. of the leaves, of the natural size, forming p. 112, 113. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves cordate, roundish, 5-lobed ; lobes bluntish (or 

 pointed), repandly toothed, velvety beneath. Corymbs pendulous. Pe- 

 dicels hairy. Fruit rather hairy, with the wings somewhat diverging. (Don's 

 MM.) A deciduous tree of the first rank, of as rapid growth as A. Pseiido- 

 jPlataiius. Hungary, Croatia, and many parts of Italy, on hills and mountains. 

 Height 40 ft. to GO ft. Introduced in 1825. Flowers greenish yellow, few in 

 a panicle ; May and June. Keys brown ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves 

 dark brown. Naked young wood smooth and brown. Buds prominent, 

 green. 



133. ^Ver obtusJitum. 



Varieties. In the Neapolitan territory, this tree is probably somewhat dif- 

 ferent in its habit and aspect from what it is in Hungary ; and hence, the A. 

 neapolitanum of Tenore may be considered a variety. The foliowing also 

 appear to belong to this species : 



^ A. o. 2 coridceum. A. coriaceum Pose. (Don's 

 Mill., 1. p. 649.; and our Jig. 134.) Leaves co- 

 riaceous, the same length as breadth, 3-5-lobed, 

 denticulated, smooth. Corymbs loose. Wings of 

 fruit erectly divergent. Native of?. (Don's 

 Miller.) There are small plants of this A^cer 

 in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges, which ap- 

 pear to us to belong to this species, though it is 

 with considerable doubt that we have placed it 

 here. Possibly it may belong to A. platanoides, 

 as we once thought, or to A. O'palus. 

 A. o. 3 ibericum. A. iberieum Bieb. Ft. Taur. 

 p. 247. Leaves shining, glaucous Leneath, 

 bluntly three-lobed ; lobes furnished with one 

 or two teeth ; lateral ones marked with the 

 middle nerve to the insertion of the petiole. 

 Petioles a little shorter than the leaves. Tree 

 20 ft. in height. A native of Georgia. (Don's Mill., i. p. 649.) As we 

 have only seen plants a few inches high, we may be mistaken in 

 considering A. ibericum as a variety of A. obtusatum. 



134. A. o. coriaceum. 



