LXXII. PLATANA‘CEE : PLA’TANUS. 929 
¥ P. 0. 3 hispénica. P. hispanica Lodd. Cat. ed..1836 ; P. macrophylla 
Cree in Don. Cat.; the Spanish Maple. — Leaves rather longer than 
those of the species, but it is in other respects the same. 
¥ P.o. 4 cunedta. P. 0. undulata Ait. Hort. Kew. iti, p. 364. ; P. cu- 
neata Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 473. (The plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 
1734. P.o. cunedta. 
Ist edit., vol. viii. ; and our jig. 1734.) — Leaves 3—5-lobed, dentate, 
and wedge-shaped at the base; somewhat glabrous. This is a 
stunted-looking low tree or bush, seldom seen above 20 ft. in height, 
with small deeply cut leaves. 
The oriental plane is one of the noblest trees of the East, where it grows 
to the height of 70 ft. and upwards, with widely spreading branches and a 
massive trunk ; forming altogether a majestic tree. The wood may be com- 
pared to that of the A’cer 
Psetido-Platanus ; but very 
little use is made of it in the 
West of Europe. Pliny affirms 
that there is no tree whatso- 
ever that defends us so well 
from the heat of the sun in 
summer, or that admits it 
more kindly in winter. Both 
properties result from the 
large size of its leaves: in 
summer, these present hori- 
zontal imbricated masses, 
which, while they are favour- 
able to the passage of the 
breeze, yet exclude both the 17682: .Beorleniblls: 
sun and the rain; while, as 
the distance at which the branches and twigs of trees are from one another is 
always proportionate to the size of the leaves, hence the tree in winter is 
more than usually open to the sun’s rays. As an ornamental tree, no one 
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