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uninteresting to make a few remarks upon them. There are besides a few- 

 specimens of some plants consistiag simply of entire leaves or of some 

 fragments, which can hardly he determined without speculation, and hence 

 it is considered better to exclude them at present. 



Acer Hookeri, Miq. in Archives jSTeerlandaises, II, p. 271, fide Hiern 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I, p. 694 ; var. serrulatum, Pax in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. VII, p. 214? 



Hab. in Darjeeling, Sikkim Himalaya, 22 Decembris 1902 {Bev. Keihai 

 KoAvagutclii ! n. 2). Tanta folia. 



Folia in specimine nostro 14-1 6 cm. longa, 8-11 cm. lata, submem- 

 branacea utrinque glabra ovato-cordata, irregulariter serrata, 5-costata, 

 caudato-acuminata vel subacuta, petiolata, petiolo 4-5 cm. longo longitudine 

 stria to. 



In our specimen, the leaves are very beautiful, displaying red and 

 yellow autumnal colouration. <. 



Acer sp. {A. GampbellU, Hook. f. et Thoms. in Hook. f. FI. Brit. 

 Ind. I, p. 698, affio.). Folia .chartacea 7-lobata glabrescentia fere 20cm. 

 loDga lataque, lobis laaceolato-oblongis vel ovato-caudatis duplicato-serratis, 

 longe petiolatis, petiolo 8 J cm. longo glabro. 



Hab. in itinere regionis montosis versus Jor Bangalow, Sikkim Himalaya, 

 21 Decembris 1902 {Bev. Keihai Kaivagutclii ! n. 3). Tanta folia. 



The leaves in our specimen exhibit a beautiful dark- reddish tint, 

 reminding one of a splendid autumnal colouration of this magnificiently 

 foliaged tree in the Himalayas. 



Acer Lobelii, Tenore, subsp. laetum, (0. A. Meyer) Pax, var. 

 indicum, Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. YII, p. 237. 



A. pictum, Hiern, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I, p. 696, non Thunb. 



Hab. in itinere regionis montosis versus Jelapaar prope Darjeeling, 

 Sikkim Himalaya, 21 Decembris 1902 {Rev. Keikai Kaiuagutclii ! n. 4). 



Folia in specimine nostro glabra 5-lobata, cum reticulo prominently 

 basi truncata, lobis ovatis caudato-acumioatis, acute minusve serratis aut 

 duplicato-serratis aut crenato-serratis, petiolatis, petiolo longitudine striato 

 fere 7 cm. longo. 



Closely allied to the Japanese A. pictwn, Thunb., and it is recorded 

 as such in Sir J. D. Hooker's Flora of British India, loc. cit. 



Distrib. specie!. Italia, Persia, Armenia et Caucasus. 



