660 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 
glabrous, remaining green throughout the first and second years. Leaves (Plate 205, 
Fig. 8) about 5 inches long by 54 inches wide; lobes five or three, with their apices 
pointing away from the base of the leaf and ending in long sharp points; margin 
repand, non-ciliate ; upper surface dark green, shining, glabrous ; lower surface light 
green, dull, glabrous except for pubescent tufts in the axils of the nerves; petiole 
with milky sap. 
Flowers smaller than those of 4. platanoides, in corymbs. Fruit, glabrous, 
with horizontally spreading wings, each key about an inch long. 
A variety with deeply-cut leaves is described by Tenore; but it is not 
apparently in cultivation. 
This species is readily distinguished by the pyramidal habit, striped bark, and 
glaucous shoots. It grows in woods in the mountains around the Bay of Naples, 
and according to Spach’? is also found in the mountains of Calabria. Oa 
Acer Lobelit, which Loudon treats as a variety of the Norway maple, is so 
distinct in its habit of growth and in its bark that it is well worth cultivation. The 
largest we have seen in England is at Grayswood, a handsome tree with erect 
branches about 4o feet high. It is quite hardy as far north as Yorkshire, where 
Sir Charles Strickland has planted a good many which are now from 25 to 40 feet 
high and growing vigorously. They all have an erect, fastigiate habit. There are 
two good specimens in Kew Gardens. A large tree was reported? to be growing 
in 1839 at Croome Court, near Worcester; but when this place was visited by 
us in 1905, it could not be found. 
At Verriéres, near Paris, in M. P. de Vilmorin’s grounds, this tree has attained 
55 feet in height by 5 feet in girth. (H. J. E.) 
ACER PICTUM 
Acer pictum, Thunberg, Fv. Jap. 162 (1784); Shirasawa, con. Ess. Forest. Japon, text 105, t. 65. ff 
a ae Brandis, Forest Flora N.W. India, 112 (1874), and Zndian Trees, 183, 705 
1906). 
Acer letum, C. A. Meyer, Verz. Kaukas. Lflanz. 206 (1831). 
Acer cultratum, Wallich, P/. As. Rar. ii. 4 (1831). 
Acer colchicum, Booth, in Loudon, Gard. Mag. 1840, p. 632. 
Acer Mono, Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. St, Péters. xv. 126 (1857), and Prim. Fl. Amur. 68 (1859). 
Acer Mayri, von Schwerin, Mitt, Deut. Dendr. Ges. 1901, p. 58; Mayr, Fremdland. Wald- u. 
Parkbaiime, 460, f. 161 (1906). 
A tree attaining 60 feet in height; bark smooth, usually striped with white 
lines or bands. Young branchlets green, glabrous, not glaucous except in one 
variety, remaining green and smooth in the second year in some varieties, becoming 
grey or brown with irregular fissures in others. Leaves (Plate 205, Fig. 9), 
averaging 4 inches long and 44 inches broad, cordate at the base, entire in margin ; 
lobes long, cuspidate or caudate-acuminate, bristle-pointed, five or seven in number 
1 Ann. Soc. Nat. 2 sér, ii. 168 (1834). Cf. also Tenore, Zssaz Géog. Roy. Naples, 81 ( 1827). 
? Loudon, Gard. Mag. 1840, P. 44. 
