SAPINDACEJE. 



875 



Fig. 425. Fruit. 



a separate genus has been made,^ the apetalous, diooeious flowers have 

 a small calyx and linear an- 



,, , 1 rm • Acer rieudoplalaims. 



thers, exserted. This genus 

 contains about fifty species,- 

 growing in Europe and 

 K'orth America and also 

 abounding in temperate 

 Asia, the Himalayas, and 

 Japan. Some are also found 

 in Java. The leaves are op- 

 posite, exstipulate, simple, 

 entii"e, palmatilobate or 

 palmati-partite, pinnate in 

 Negundo . The flowers, 



whicli are precocious, axillary or terminal (green, yellow, reddish), 

 arc arranged in spiciform or corymbi- 

 form clusters of cymes. 



In connection with the Maples, Dobinea 

 has been placed in this series. It is a 

 a shrub from the mountains of India, 

 having opposite sim^ile leaves and tetra- 

 merous male flowers, diplostemouous and 

 with double perianth, whilst the female 

 flower has an unilocular ovary, with a 

 descendent ovule, superior and interior 

 micropyle, and no perianth ; but the dry, 

 compressed, marginated fruit, containing a 

 seed whose embryo has flat oval cotyledons 

 and an accumbent radicle, is adnate to a 

 bract growing in a sub orbicular, membranous, veined wing resembling 

 a samara. 



Acer Tfegundo. 



Fig. 426. Floriferoxis male branch. 



' Negundo MuiNCH, Meth. 334.— DC. Prodr. 

 i. 596. — SpACH, Suit, a Biiffon, iii. 118. — Enbl. 

 Gen. n. 5559.— A. Gray, Gcii. III. t. 175.— B. H. 

 Oeii. 409, n. G\—NegiiiidUim Kafin. (ex DC). 



2 Keichb./c. Fl. Germ.v. t. 162-164.— Hook- 

 et Akx. Seech. Vut/. But. t. 77 [Ncgimdo). — 

 L ER. Stlrp. t. 98. — MiCHX. ylrbr. For. ii. t. 14- 

 17.— ToBR. et Gr. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 249 l,Ne- 

 gundo). — Desv. Anu. Miis. vii. t. 25. — Wall. 

 Fl. As. Rar. t. 104, 105, 132.— Siiith. Fl. 



Grac. t. 361.— Hook. Fl. Bor-Amc>. fr. 38, 39 j 

 Loud. Journ. vi. t. 6. — Cambesb. in Jacquem. 

 Votj. Bot. t. 34.— Bl. Rumphia, iii. 192, t. 67, 

 B. — Benth. Fl. Hougk. 47. — A. Gray, Man. 

 ed. 5, 118, 119 {Neguudo). —BoisB. Fl. Or. i. 

 947. -Mm. Prol. Fl. Jap. 18, in Arc/i. merl. 

 ii. (1867).— GuE.v. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 321.— 

 Walp. Rep. i. 408, 410 {Neguuds) ; Jim. i. 132 ; 

 ii. 207 ; iv. 373 ; vii. 632, 634 {Negundo). 



