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winics erect or divergent. Nuts large, more or less pubescent, the '2 together 

 forming a semicircle J-f in across. 



North-West Himalaya, 7-9,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon. Fl. Feb.-March. 

 in. A. Thomsoni, Mii|. sikkim. Bhutan, Manipur, Burma. Closely allied, differs by 

 I. 3-lobed, lateral lobes generally small. Fruit carpels red, 21-31 in. long, wing 

 narrowed at tie- base. 



11. A. caesium, Wall.: Brandis F. Fl. tali. 31. Yern. Mandai; Trekhan, 

 Bodal, Punj. : Kainju, X. W. 



A large deciduous tree, trunk tall, straight, buds glabrous, the inner longer 

 bud scales densely silky outside, petioles v>-'\- L. pale beneath, cordate, 5-lobed, 

 lobes broadly triangular, the two outer lobes smaller, serratures large obtuse. 

 basal nerves 5, numerous secondary nerves on the 3 inner nerves, blade 4-8, 

 petiole 3-4 in. Fl. appearing soon after the leaves, in terminal corymbose 

 panicles. Nuts unevenly gibbous, wings slightly divergent. 



North- West Himalaya, Indus to Nepal 1 L0,000 ft, Fl. April, May. 



88. Acer pii 



I-.'. A. caudatum. Wall. PI. As. bar. t. 132; Colletl Simla Fl. tig. 32. 

 Vera. Javlma, Mahasu; Kainjli, Jauns. ; Kabashi, Nep. 



A large decid is tree. 1.. 5-lobed, lobes long-acuminate, the two outer small, 



blade '■'> I. petiole 2 I in. long. Fl. in lateral and terminal short glabrous 



corymbs or racemes. Frail iug n mes long, pendulous, carpels I -I .'. in., bright 



red, wings divergent or divaricate. 



North-Wesl Himalaya, Kashmir to Nepal, 8 11,000 ft. Fl. March, \piii. sikkim. 

 ami the i ' 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 . i valley adjoining it, 8 11,000 ft. The Sikkim tr iften has divari- 

 cate wings. This is .1. peclinatum, Wall. Pax in Engl, Jahrb. eii. 249 18 

 A. Paplllo, King, Journ. As. Soc. vol. 65 (1897), II"': Annals Bot. Garden Calc. IX. tab. 

 24. Sikkim, II 12,500 ft. A small tree. I., similar to .1. caudatum, Lnflorescem 

 long erect racemiform panicle, Carpels I Ij in. long, wing obliquely and broadly 

 rhomboid i rinngular. 



II. A. pictum, Thunb.; Brandis I'. Fl. 112. Syn. A. cultratum, Wall.; 



Collfll Simla Fl. 99. Willi, Kashm. : KanZCtl, I'.n ~- : Kaiuchli, Kabdai, X. W. 



A large, glabrous, deciduous tree, inner bud scales oblong, bright brown-silky 



