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318. Acer pictum, Thunb. h.f.b.i., i. 896. 



The commonest Maple of the West Himayalan range. 



Current name : Acer cultratum. Wall. 



Vern. : — Kilpattar, trekhan, tarkhana, Kakru, Kan jar, 

 Kunzal, jerimu, laur, tian (Pb.) ; Kanchali, Kainjli (N. W. P.), 

 Kainchli, Kabusi, Dudh Kainju (Jaunsar) ; Dhadonjra (Simla) ; 

 Tikta, pata, bankima (Kumaon) ; Gudkima, potli, dumitha 

 (Garhwal) ; Chindia, tilani, Chitulia, (Dotial). 



Habitat : — Outer and Middle Himalaya, from the Indus to 

 Assam at 4-9, 000ft. Tibetan drinking-cups are made out of 

 the knotty excrescences. 



A handsome, moderate-sized tree. Bark thin grey. Wood 

 white, soft to moderately hard, close-grained. Pores very 

 small, scanty. Medullary rays fine and very fine, dark, with 

 a pretty, fine silver-grain ^Gamble). Leaves 2 to 5 by 2J to 

 7in., broader than long, 5-7-lobed, rather membranous, glabrous, 

 turning red before falling ; margins quite entire ; base usually 

 deeply cordate, rarely truncate. Petiole l-6in. long, slender, 

 flexuous. Flowers glabrous, on slender pedicels, arranged in 

 terminal or lateral corymbs. Sepals about j a in. long, oblong. 

 Petals as long as the sepals, spathulate. Stamens shorter than 

 the petals. Fruit glabrous ; nuts thin ; wings l-l|-in. long, very 

 divergent, with the back sigmoidly curved. Flowers, April to 

 May. Fruit, June and July. 



Uses : — The knots on the stems are made into the curious 

 water-cups supposed by some of the hill tribes to have a medi- 

 cinal influence over the water. 



The leaves are said to yield an acrid juice in Kanawar 

 which blisters the hands. 



319. Dodoncea viscosa, Linn. ; h.f.b.i., i. 697. 



*S?y??. : — D. angustifolia, Willd and D. diodea, Roxb. 324. 



Vern. : — Bandari, zakhmi (Bomb.); Aliar (FT.); Sanatha 

 (Hazara) ; Dhasera, dawa ka j ha r, latchmi, Sanatha, mendru ban- 

 mandii, Santha, mendar iPb,) ; Ghurabke, vera-vena (Pushtu) ; 

 Pipalu (Simla) ; Virali (Tarn.) ; Bandaru, golla pulleda banded u 

 (Tel.); Bandurgi, bandrike (Kan.) ; Eta and Werella (Sinhalese). 



