Tas. 5117, 
AESCULUS Inpica. 
Indian Horse-chestnut. 
Nat. Ord. HrppocastaNE£.—HeEptTanpRiaA MoNoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5077.) 
Ascutus (§ Pavia) Indica; staminibus 5-8 corolla longioribus, petalis ineequa- 
libus subsecundis obovato-spathulatis einuatis dorso villoso-tomentosis, 
calyce tubuloso subsequaliter 5-dentato bilabiato, labiis clausis, thyrso laxi- 
floro, foliis amplis, foliolis 9 lato-obovato-lanceolatis grosse serratis glabris 
in petiolulum longum basi attenuatis. 
Pavia Indica. Colebrooke’s MS. in Herb. 1824, Wall. Cat.n. 1188. Jacque- 
mont, Plant, Rar. Ind. Or. p. 3. t. 35. 
It is not a little remarkable that, although this handsome 
Aisculus was distributed by Dr. Wallich as long ago as 1828, 
and recorded in his well-known ‘ Catalogue’ as Pavia Indica of 
Colebrooke’s MS., and as a native of Kamaon (Blinkworth) and 
of Sirmore (8. Webs), it was never described nor further noticed 
by any author till the appearance of the ‘ Plante Rariores quas 
in India Orientali collegit Victor Jacquemont : auctore J. Cam- 
bessédes,’ in 1844. 
“India borealis” is popularly given for the native country of 
our common Horse-chestnut (Asculus Hy pocastanum), but Dr. 
Royle assures us that “Its native region Is still unknown ; it 
is not enumerated in Dr. Wallich’s catalogue, nor has it ever 
been distributed by him. I have never met with it, though 
often visiting the northern mountains of India, where, if any- 
where, it was likely to be found, and where the nearly allied 
Indian Pavia® is so abundant.” The Pavia (or dsculus) Indica, 
or Indian Horse-chestnut, which we now figure, that author 
further says, “is called by the hill-people Hunour and Pangla, 
and is found on mountains, at elevations of from 8000 to 10,000 
feet, in Kamaon, Gurhwal, and Sirmore, also near the sources of 
* Generally considered a mere section of Asculus, distinguished by its un- 
armed fruit. 
MAY Ist, 1859. 
