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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



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p. occidentalis. 



1732. 



P. orientalis. 



grows more rapidly, 

 attains a larger size, 

 and may be propa- 

 gated much more 

 readily by cuttings. 

 Both species ripen 

 seeds in Britain, in 

 fine seasons. P. oc- 

 cidentalis is readily 

 known from P. ori- 

 entalis, in the winter 

 season, by its bark 

 scaling oft' nmch less 

 freely, or, in young 

 or middle-sized trees, scarcely at all ; and, in the summer season, by its 

 leaves having red petioles, and being but slightly lobed (Jig. 1732. a), in- 

 stead of being palmate like those of P. orientalis (^g. 1732. b), which have 

 green petioles, and by its globular catkins being nearly smooth, while those 

 of P. orientalis are rough. 



'!^ \. P. ORIENT aYis L. The Oriental Plane. 



Identification. Lin. Hort. Cliff., 447. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 473. ; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 1. 



Syrtonymes. Platanus orientalis vera Park. Thealr. 14'27., Du Ham. Arb. 2. t. 33. ; Platane de 

 rOrienl, Fr. ; Worgenlandischer Platanus, Ger. ; Doolb, Arabic ; Chinar, Persian. 



Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., t. 33. ; N. Du Ham., 2. t. 1. ; Dend. Brit., t. 101. ; the plates of this 

 .species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. viii. and var. ; and our^i^. 1736. \nfig. 173.'i. a shows the 

 femle catkins transversely cut, so as to display the position of the flowers on the orbicular re- 

 ceptacle ; b shows a section of the female catkin in seed ; c, a scale and pistil ; d, stamen and scale ; 

 e, the longitudinal section of a seed ; and/, an entire seed. 



Spec. Char,, ^c. Leaves 5-lobed, palmate, wedge-shaped at the base , the 



divisions lanceolate, sinuated. Stipules nearly entire. {Willd.) A large, 



deciduous tree. The Levant. Height CO ft. to bO ft. ; with a wide-spreading 



head. In British gardens before 1548. Flowers greenish yellow ; April, 



May. Fruit brown ; ripe in October; persistent great part of the winter. 



Varieties. 



It v. 0.2 accrifoUa Ait. Hort. Kevv. iii. p. 364-. P. o yl'ceris folio Tourn. 

 Cor. 41., Arb. 2. ; P. acerifolia IVilld. Sp. PI. iv. p. 474.: P. inter- 

 media Hort.; the Maple-leaved Plane Tree. (The plate of this tree 



1733. P. o. ncerifMia. 



in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. viii. ; and our fig. 1733.) Leaves cor- 

 date, 5-lobed, remotely dentate, truncate at the base. In general 

 appearance, habit of growth, &c,, it closely resembles the species. 



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