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Maoutia Puya, Weclcl. Subhimalayaii tract from tlie Jumna eastwards, ascending to 

 4,000 ft. Klaasi liills. Shan hills. Martaban hills, 2,500-5,000 ft. Vern. Poi, Pim 

 Hind. ; Ptnja, Nep. A shrub, young shoots silky with long hairs, branchlets, petiole, 

 and uppeiside of 1. hairy, underside densely clothed with a white felt, 1. alternate, 

 elliptic, acuminate, coarsely dentate, basal n. 3, blade 8-8, pet. 1-4 in. long. TL-heads 

 small, often androgynous, in lateral dichotomous panicles. ? perianth 0, achenes 

 with a thick fleshy pericarp. 



Order CII. 'PlSitBiLSiCe^.—PIatanus orientaHs, Linn. B. Clarke on Platanece in Annals 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hi&t. 3rd Series i. 102 (1858) ; Schoenland in Engler's Jahrbuch iv. 

 308 (1888). Oriental Plave. Yern. Chindr, Persian; Buna, Boin, Bhunj, Kashmir. 

 Indigenous in the eastern Mediterranean region. Cultivated in Afghanistan and the 

 N.W. Himalaya, particularly in Kashmir, eastwards to the Sutlej, in Ladak ascending 

 to 8,300 ft. It grows well at Peshawar and at the foot of the North- Western Himalaya. 

 A large deciduous tree, bark of young trees alw^ays, of old trees frequently, peeling off 

 in large thin flakes, buds densely clothed with long hairs, branchlets and young 1. 

 with soft deciduous tawny or ferrugineous tomentum. L. alternate, palminerved, 

 glabrous when mature, deeply 3-5-lobed, blade 5-8, pet. 1-3 in., stipules large, deciduous. 

 Fl. monoecious, in unisexual usually sessile globose heads, 2-5 on long axillary 

 peduncles, 6 and 9 heads sometimes on the same peduncle, sepals 3-6. petals as many, 

 all extremely mmute scale-like, often more or less confluent, formerly regarded as 

 bracteoles. S : Stamens as many as sepals, each consisting of a long almost sessile 

 anther, the 2 cells parallel, adnate to a cuneate connective with a truncate top, $ : 

 Ovaries hairy at base, as many as sepals, surrounded by staminodes, narrowed into a 

 long subulate style, ovule 1 pendulous. Fruiting head 1-1| in. diam., consisting of 

 numerous 1-seeded achenes, densely clothed at base with long fine hairs, the broad 

 apex narrowed gradually into the persistent long htyle. Seedlings slender, cotyledons 

 raised above the ground. P. occidenfaJis, Linn.; Sargent Silva vii. 102, of the Eastern 

 and Central U.S of North America, differs by fewer fl.-heads (1-3) on the peduncle, 

 achene truncate, style early deciduous. P. aeerifolia^ Willd., the London Plane, is 

 generally regarded as a variety of P orienfalis. 



Oedee out. JUGLANDACEiE. Gea. PL iii. 397 {Juglanflece). 



Trees, rarely shrubs, 1, alternate, pinnate, often aromatic, stipules 0. 

 Axillary buds often several superposed in a vertical series. PL monoeciouSj 

 $ in lateral pendulous catkins, anthers 2 or more, nearly sessile, inserted on the 

 upper surface of a bract, which bears on its edge 2-6 membranous perianth- 

 lobes. 5 in few-M. erect terminal or in many-fld. lateral spikes, perianth 

 adnate to the 1-celled ovary, ovule 1, ei^ect. Tr. a 2-valved nut or drupe, 

 seed exalbuminous, cotyledons oily, lobed, radicle superior. 



Peltate scales with an orbicular blade of radiating cells. No resin canals. 



9 fl. terminal, solitary or 2-3. Bracts not enlarged in fr. 



Biupe with leathery pericarp and woody endocarp . . 1. Juglans. 



$ fl. in lateral pendulous spikes. Nut coriaceous, adnate to 



the much enlarged 3-lobed bracts 2. Engbliiarbtia. 



1. JUGLANS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 595. 

 Species 10, of which 3 in the Old World. 



J. regia, Linn. The Walnut Vern. Dun^ Kashm. ; Tlmn^ Pangi ; 

 Elwl^ Kdj Eluuawar; Khor^ Akhor, Hind, (fruit: AMirot) ; ThitcJia, Burm.^ 



A lar^e deciduous aromatic tree, young shoots tomentose. L. impari- 

 pinnate, leaflets 5-13, subsessile, opposite or nearly so, usually entire, those of 

 seedlings serrate, i catkins on the previous year's wood above the leaf- scars, 

 often two superposed, green, 2-5 in. long, bracts stalked, J in. long, perianth- 

 lobes 5-6, anthers 10-20, oblong apiculate. $ £. sessile, terminal, solitary or 

 2-3, limb of calyx minute, indistinctly 4-toothed, petals liu ear-lanceolate, 

 green, usually minute. Fr. 2 in. long, green, pericarp leathery, very aromatic, 

 enclosing an irregularly furrowed more or less thick-shelled nut, which is 

 divided by two thin coriaceous dissepiments into four incomplete cells, one 



