Maoutia] CI. URTICACE^ 619 



Maoutia Puya, Wedd. Subhimalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 

 4,000ft. Khasi hills. Shan hills. Martaban hills, 2 ; 500-5,000 ft. Vern. Poi, Pua 

 Hind. : Puya, Nep. A shrub, young shoots silky with long hairs, branchlets, petiole, 

 and upperside of 1. hairy, underside densely clothed with a white felt, 1. alternate, 

 elliptic, acuminate, coarsely dentate, basal n. 3, blade 3-8, pet. 1-A in. long. Fl.-heads 

 small, often androgynous, in lateral dichotomous panicles. 9 perianth 0, achenes 

 with a thick Meshy pericarp. 



Order ('II. Platanacese. — Platanui lorientalis, Linn. B.Clarkeon Platanece in Annals 

 and Mag. of Xat. Hist. 3rd Series i. 102 (1858); Schoenland in Engler's .Tahrbueh iv. 

 ;;us i lss;;i. Oriental Plane. Vern. ChinSr, Persian: Buna, Boin, Bhnnj, Kashmir. 

 Indigenous in the eastern Mediterranean region. Cultivated in Afghanistan and the 

 N.W. Himalaya, particularly in Kashmir, eastwards to the Sutlej, in Ladak ascending 

 to 8,300 ft. It grows well at Peshawarand at the foot of the North- Western Himalaya. 

 A large deciduous tree, bark of young trees always, of old trees frequently, peeling off 

 in large thin flakes, buds densely clothed with long hairs, branchlets and youug 1. 

 with soft deciduous tawny or ferrugineous tomeutum. L. alternate, palminerved, 

 glabrous when mature, deeply 3-5-lobed, blade 5-8, pet. 1-3 in., stipules large, deciduous. 

 Fl. monoecious, in unisexual usually sessile globose heads, 2-5 on Ions: axillary 

 peduncles, 8 and 9 heads sometimes on the same peduncle, sepals 3-6, petals as many, 

 all extremely minute scale-like, often more or less confluent, formerly regarded as 

 bracteoles. rf": Stamens as many as sepals, each consisting of a long almost sessile 

 anther, the 2 cells parallel, adnate to a cuneate connective with a truncate top. 9: 

 i (varies hairy at base, as many as sepals, surrounded by staminodes, narrowed into a 

 long subulate style, ovule 1 pendulous. Fruiting head 1-li in. diam.. consisting of 

 numerous 1-seedeil arlicnes, densely clothed at base with long fine hairs, the broad 

 apex narrowed gradually into tin- persistent long style. Seedlings slender, col \ ledons 

 raised above the ground. 1'. oa-iil< ntati*. Linn.: Sargent silva vii. 102. of the Eastern 

 and Central I T .S. of North America, differs by fewer fl.-heads (1-3) on the peduncle, 

 achene truncate, style early deciduous. /'. acerifolia, Willd., the London Plane, is 

 genernlU regarded as a variety ol /' arirntalis. 



Older CIII. JUGLANDACEjE. Gen. PI. iii. W7 (Juglandece). 



Trees, ravel}' shrubs, 1. alternate, pinnate, often avomatic. stipules 0. 

 Axillary buds often seveval supevposed in a vevtieal series. Fl. monoecious, 

 3 in lateral pendulous catkins, anthevs 2 or move, nearly sessile, insevted on the 

 upper surface of a bvact, which beavs on its edge 2-6 membvanous perianth- 

 lobes. ? in few-fld. erect terminal or in many-fid. lateral spikes, pevianth 

 adnate to the 1-celled ovavy, ovule 1, evect. FY. a 2-valved nut or dvupe, 

 seed exalbiuninous, cotyledons oily, lobed, radicle superior. 



Peltate scales with an orbicular blade of radiating cells. No resin canals. 



9 H. terminal, solitary or 2-3. Bracts not enlarged in fr. 



Drupe with leathery pericarp and woody endocarp . . 1. Jdqlans. 



9 fl. in lateral pendulous spikes. Xm coriaceous, adnate to 



the much enlarged 8-lobed bracts 2. Enukuiakhtia. 



I. JUGLANS, Linn.: Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 595. 

 Species 10, of which 3 in the Old World. 



J. regia. I. inn. '/'/" Walnut. Writ. Dfln, Kashin. ; 'J'/ian, Pangi ; 

 Khol, A". Kunuwar: h'/mr, M.lmr. 1 1 ind. i fruit : Akhrot : Thitchct, Buvm. 



A Large deciduous aromatic tree, young si ts tomentose. I., impari- 



phmate, leaflets 5-13, subsessile. opposite or nearly so. usually entire, those of 

 seedlings serrate. 3 catkins on the previous year's wood above the leaf-scars, 

 often two superposed, green, '_!-."> in. long, bracts stalked, j in. long, perianth- 

 lobes 5 6, anthers L 0-20, oblong apiculate. 9 fl. sessile, terminal, solitary or 

 2-3, limb of calyx minute, indistinctly 4-toothed, petals linear-lanceolate, 

 green, usually minute. Fr. - in. long, green, pericarp leathery, very aromatic, 

 enclosing an irregularly furrowed more or less thick-shelled nut, which is 

 divided by two thin coriaceous dissepiments into four incomplete cells, one 



