84 DRUMMOND’S MAPLE. 
The bark of the small branches appears to be light 
brown ; the young shoots, petioles, and the lower side of 
the leaves, are clothed even when adult, with a white, soft, 
and woolly pubescence, which when removed from the 
foliage, leaves a glaucous surface ; above they are smooth. 
The leaves are 3 to 4\ inches long, by 4 or 5 wide, with 3 
to 5 rather short lobes, having acute sinuses, the lower 
lobes are small and obtuse, the terminal ones acute, but 
scarcely acuminate, and the central lobe scarcely longer 
than the rest ; the base of the leaf, when fully grown, is 
auriculated with a small sinus, the margin is irregularly 
serrated and toothed, with the serratures and teeth distant 
and often obtuse. The fruit situated on long smooth clus- 
tered peduncles is at first divergent at an acute angle, at 
length almost convergent by the inner enlargement of the 
wing of the carpel, wdiich is broadly lanceolate, strongly 
veined and confluent below, down to the juncture of the 
fruit. The wings of the samara, are, at first, reddish, at 
length brown. The adult samara is from 1J to If of an 
inch long, and about | an inch wide. 
Plate LXX. 
A branch of the natural size, with a cluster of the fruit in a young state, 
and the adult samara. 
