N. 0. SAPAINDACEjE. 
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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. 
Vent. : — Kilpattar, t'rekhan, tarlchana, Kakru, Kanjar, 
Kunzal, jerimu, laur, tian (Pb.) ; Kanchali, Kainjli (N W. P.), 
Kainchli, Kabusi, Dudh Kainju (Jaunsar) ; Dliadonjra (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 2$ to 
7in., broader than long, 5-7 v 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 /gin. long, oblong. 
Petals as long as the sepals, spathulate. Stamens shorter than 
the petals. Fruit glabrous ; nuts thin ; wings 1-1-Jin. 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 hijll tribes to have a medi- 
cinal influence over the water. 
The leaves are said to yield an acrid juice in Kan4war 
which blisters the hands. 
319 . Dodonoea vi-scosa, Linn . ; h.f.b.i., i. 697 . 
.S'f/n. : — D. angustifolia, Willd and D. diodea, Roxb. 324. 
Vern. : — Bandari, zakhmi (Bomb.); Alfar (H.) ; Sanat.ha 
(Hazara) ; Dhasera, dawa ka jhar, latchmi, Sanatha, mendru ban- 
mandu, Santha, mendar (Pb.) ; Ghuraske, vera-vena (Pushtii) ; 
Pipalu (Simla) ; Virali (Tam.) ; Bandaru, golla pulleda bnndedu 
(Tel.); Bandurgi, bandrike (Kan.) ; Eta and Werella (Sinhalese), 
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