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XXVI. SAPINDACEJ3 
3-lobed, 3-celled ; style short, simple ; ovule 1 in each cell. Drupe 
yellow, smooth, globose, J- in. diain. 
Sutlej valley, a tree on the left bank above the Komarsen bridge ; cultivated 
throughout N. India, ascending to 5000 ft. — China, Japan. 
The drupes are used in medicine ; also as soap for washing clothes and the 
hair. Native name Ke.etha. 
4. ACER. The classical name of the Maple. — Europe, 
N. America, Asia. 
Trees. Leaves opposite, long-stalked, simple, usually lobed. 
Flowers small, regular, polygamous, white or tinged with green, 
in corymbs or racemes. Calyx 5- or 4-parted, segments imbricate 
in bud. Petals 5 or 4, imbricate. Disk thick, ring-shaped, lobed. 
Stamens usually 8, inserted on the disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled ; 
styles 2, linear, incurved, more or less united ; ovules 2 in each 
cell. Fruit of 2 conjoined samaras, ultimately separating from 
the short axis ; wings large, membranous, net-veined, more or less 
diverging, thickened along the lower edge. Seed one or rarely 
two in each samara. 
In the FI. Br. Ind. i. 693, Simla is recorded as a locality for A. Icevigatum. 
Wall., but I have seen no specimen. Brandis (For. FI. 110) and Gamble 
(Man. Ind. Timb. 99) both give the Jumna as the western limit of the species. 
It has oblong, entire leaves 2|-6 x 1-2 in., green on the lower surface. 
Acer campestre, Common Maple, is wild in Britain ; A. Pseudoplatanus, the 
Sycamore or Great Maple (called the Plane in Scotland), is naturalised. 
Leaves not lobed, oblong, entire ; lower surface white . 1. A. oblongum. 
Leaves lobed. 
Leaves 5-lobed ; margins toothed. 
Lobes pointed, but not produced in tail-like tips. 
Margins of leaves not fringed ; lower surface white 2. A . caesium. 
Margins of leaves minutely fringed ; lower surface 
green . . . . . . . . 3. A. villosum. 
Lobes narrowed into long, linear, tail-like tips . . 4. A. caudatum. 
Leaves 5-7-lobed ; margins entire . . ,. . 5. A. cultratum. 
1. Acer oblongum, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 693. Evergreen. 
Leaves glabrous, not lobed, oblong, 3-6 X 1-2 in., entire, long- 
pointed, upper surface dark green, lower white. Flowers in hairy 
corymbs. 
Simla, the Glen ; Pebruary-April. — Temperate Himalaya, 2000-6000 ft. — 
China, Luchu archipelago. 
2. Acer caesium, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 695. Glabrous or 
nearly so. Leaves cordate, 5-lobed, 3-7 in., closely and sharply 
toothed ; lower surface covered with a pale bloom ; lobes pointed, 
the 2 basal smaller, sometimes obscure. Flowers in corymbs, 
appearing with the young leaves. 
Simla, Mahasu, Narkunda ; March, April. — Temperate Himalaya, 7000- 
10,000 ft. 
