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summer ; but their leaves are almost always more or less imperfect, especially 
on the edges, and fall off much sooner in the autumn than those of the species. 
The leaves of the purple variety are not liable to the same objection as those 
of the variegated sorts. Seeds ; and the varieties by grafting on the species. 
¥ 9. 4. oprusa‘tum Ait. The obtuse-lobed-leaved Maple. 
Identyication. Kit. in Willd. Spec., 4. p. 948.; Dec, Prod., 1. p/594.; Don’s Mill, 1. p. 649. 
anes A. neapolitanum Tenore pe hybridum in the Lond. Hort. Soc. Gard. in 1834 ; the 
Neapolitan Maple. : aye gy ‘ ees . 
Tngravings. 'Yratt. Arch., 1. No. 14.; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol.v. 5 
our fig. 183. ; aud fig. 154. of the leaves, of the natural size, forining p. 112, 113. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaves cordate, roundish, 5-lobed; lobes bluntish (or 
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pointed), repandly toothed, velvety beneath. Corymbs pendulous. Pe- 
dicels hairy. Fruit rather hairy, with the wings somewhat diverging. (Don 8 
Mill.) A deciduous tree of the first rank, of as rapid growth as A. Psetido- 
Platanus. Hungary, Croatia, and many parts of Italy, on hills and mountains. 
Height 40 ft. to 60 ft. Introduced in 1825. Flowers greenish yellow, few in 
a panicle ; May andJune. Keys brown ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves 
dark brown. Naked young wood smooth and brown. Buds prominent, 
green. 
133. Atcer obtusatum. 
Varieties.— In the Neapolitan territory, this tree is probably somewhat dif- 
ferent in its habit and aspect from what it is in Hungary; and hence, the A. 
neapolitanum of Tenore may be considered a variety. The following also 
appear to belong to this species : — - ° 
% A. 0. 2 coridceum, A. coridceum Bose. (Don’s 
Mill., 1. p. 649.; and our fig. 134.) —Leaves co- 
riaceous, the same length as breadth, 3-5-lobed, 
denticulated, smooth. Corymbs loose. Wings of 
fruit erectly divergent. Native of 2. (Don’s 
Miller.) There are small plants of this Acer 
in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges, which ap- 
pear to us to belong to this species, though it is 
with considerable doubt that we have placed it 
here. Possibly it may belong to A. platandides, 
as we once thought, or to A. O’palus. 
¥ A. o. 3 ibéricum. A. ibéricum Bieb. Fl. Taur. 
p. 247,.— Leaves shining, glaucous beneath, 
bluntly three-lobed; lobes furnished with one 
or two teeth; lateral ones marked with the 
middle nerve to the insertion of the petiole. 
Petioles a little shorter than the leaves. Tree 
20 ft.in height. A native of Georgia. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 649.) As we 
have only seen plants a few inches high, we may be mistaken in 
considering A. ibéricum as a variety of A. obtusdtum. 
134. A. 0. coriaceum. 
