THE PLANE. 
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the Plane, and therefore before many years the capital will be 
the city of Planes. 
Two species are recognized — the Oriental Plane {Plata7iies 
orienialis) and the Western Plane {P. occidcntalis) ; but it 
would probably be more accurate to regard them as geographical 
varieties of one species, the points in which they differ being 
small and not very important. Thus the leaves of the Oriental 
Plane are described as being so much more deeply lobed than 
those of the Western Plane that the former are botanically 
described as palmate ; but the two forms of leaf may often be 
found on the same individual. The Western Plane, too, does 
