ing tree; the tallest seen by Mr. Newberry not more than 
twenty feet high. It has the merit of blossoming at an early 
age, and is remarkable for the dense clusters of flowers, said to 
be rose-coloured in the native country, but which are assuredly 
white in our specimen. It seems to be considered hardy in 
England. From the beauty of the flowers, and the long time 
during which they continue to appear, it would be a highly va- 
luable acquisition to the cultivators of ornamental shrubs in the 
eastern States. The wood is soft, white, and brittle, like that of 
the other species of the genus. 
Descr. A small tree, with smaller leaves, if we may judge 
from our specimens, both cultivated and native, than those of 
our well-known sculus Hippocastanum, and of a firmer tex- 
ture. Leaflets five, petiolulate, glabrous, ovato-lanceolate, mode- 
rately acuminate, closely penniveined. /owers extremely nume- 
rous, in very dense terminal thyrsi, a span to a foot and more 
long. Calyr tubular, or between tubular and campanulate, 
green, tipped with red, at length two-lipped ; /iys unequal, erect 
or nearly so; upper one the largest, and three-toothed ; lower 
one two-toothed. Corolla of four, nearly equal, obovate, slightly 
undulate, shortly clawed, spreading petals, white in our speci- 
mens; the two inferior ones are rather the largest, and more 
apart than the two superior ones. Stamens five to seven, longer 
than the petals. Anthers orange-coloured, ovate, bluntly apiculate, 
prolonged at the base of each cell into a blunt spur. Ovdéry 
oblong, attenuated at the base, where it is surrounded by an 
oblique, fleshy, crenated, glandular cup; at the apex tapering 
into a thick, subulate, villous style. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :— 
magnified. J 
