822 AESCULACEAE 
Famity 10. AESCULACEAE — BUCKEYE FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite: blades Pe qp Flox 
ers polygamous, in terminal racemes or panicles. of 5 partially 
united sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 unequal clawed eae "do um of 
5-8 stamens. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. Fruta n loeulieidal 
eapsule.—Two genera and about 15 species, North American and Asi 
1. AESCULUS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades act 5—11-foliolate. 
Petals with their claws mostly in the calyx-tube. Filaments slender. Capsule 
smooth or echinate.—About 24 species, North American and Asiatie.—Buck- 
EYES. HORSE-CHESTNUTS. 
Panicle much elon a and narrow: corolla of aut aa Oe ae different in shape: 
stamens several times longer than the calyx I. MACROTHYRSUS. | 
Panicle short and thiek : corolla of very di fferently 
shape petals : amens twice or thrice as long 
as the calyx 
Upper petals ‘with small rounded blades much 
shorter than the elongate claw : ovary and cap- 
sule smooth and glabrous. Subgenus II. PAVIA. 
Er petals with spatulate blades about as long 
s the claw: ovary and capsule soft-prickly. Subgenus III. EUAESCULUS. 
I. A YRSUS 
Shrub with erect, slender, elongate panicles of white flowers. 1. Ae. parviflora. 
I. Pav 
Calyx tubular : broad petals not twice as ioe 2 the caly 2. Ae. Pavia. 
Calyx campanulate: broad petals more than twice as los as the 
cA x: . Ae. octandra. 
III. EUAESCULU 
Tree: blades of the leaflets serrate: flowers Dus eos in short 
panicles 4. Ae. glabra. 
1. Ae. onions Walt. Shrub: leaflets 5-7; blades elliptic-oblanceolate to 
obovate, 5-18 em. long: calyx 5-7 mm. long: corolla white: petals 16-20 mm 
long: capsules globular, 2.5-3 em. in diam- 
B : 
eter. — (BOTTLEBRUSH-BUCKEYE.) — Rich 
woods, Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, W 
Fla. to Ala. and S. C- Spr. 
2, Ae. Pavia L. Low shrub or small 
tree: mrs “5 7 or rely 3; blades oval, 
oval- “ovate, od Or elliptic-lanceo- 
late: calyx e 19 mm. long or rarely longer; 
tube about 5 Dunes as long as the lobes: 
narrow ve 3.5—4 em. long, the claws more 
than twice as seed as the calyx: capsule 
—5 em. in diam —( FIRECR MN is 
RED-BUCKEY BUCKEYE. )—Ri 
EYE qunm Rieh or 
dry woods, Coastal Plain and adj: pou 
Fla. to Tex., SE Mo., and Va.—Spr.—A 
tional species, related to de. Pavia ie 
been pr idi sed. 
3. Ae.0 
olate to elliptie: calyx 12-16 mm. long or rarely shorter; tube ut 8 tim 
long as the lobes: narrow peu 2.5-3 em. long, the Br ne than P i 
long as the calyx: capsule 3-6 em. in diameter. [Ae. it. |— ni. YELLOW- 
BUCKEYE. SWEET-BUCKEYE. LARGE-BUCKEYE.)—Rich = Bd. "s r banks, 
various p Ga. to Tex., Ia., and W. Pa.—Spr.—Additional DRE. re- 
lated to 4e. andra, jue been proposed.— —The creamy- -white heart-wood is 
andra Marsh. Shrub or large tree: leaflets mostly 5; blades a 
abo 
eee ed pes and light. It is used for artifieial limbs and various 
utensils. 
