petiolaris, it would be rash to refer them to this latter plant. 
At first sight indeed T. petiolaris would pass for a variety 
of the White Lime, with drooping branches, longer petioles, 
and leaves wanting the crumpled surface so characteristic 
of that plant, for their pubescence, inflorescence, and bracts 
seem to be identical; but their fruits are entirely different. 
Those of T. argentea are ellipsoid, five-angled, and smooth, 
whilst those of 7’. petiolaris are depressed five-lobed spheres, 
and more or less warted. 
I’. petiolaris is not taken up in any other botanical or 
arboricultural work known to me than De Candolle’s; it 
does not appear in Boissier’s “Flora Orientalis.’’ This, 
however, is not surprising, when it is considered how little 
attention has been paid to the forest trees of the East, and 
that it is within the last few years only that the horse- 
chestnut has been traced to its native forests in Turkey. 
T. petiolata is one of the most beautiful of the genus, is 
quite hardy, and like the White Lime, it matures seed in 
this country. The flowers which appear in. July are very 
fragrant. 
Descr. A forest tree, fifty feet and more high, trunk 
erect, cylindric ; head oblong or spreading, back pale brown, 
branchlets pendulous, leafy. Leaves on slender petioles 
as long or longer than the blade, glabrous above, covered 
beneath with hoary pubescence ; blade three to four inches - 
in diameter, obliquely orbicular with an unequally cordate 
base, flat, acute or apiculate, sharply toothed, pale green 
above. Bracts two to four inches long, sessile, gradually _ 
dilated from the base to the rounded tip, veined, glabrous 
or hoary beneath. Flowers about half an inch in diameter, — 
yellow green. Sepals oblong, tomentose on both surfaces, 
furnished at the very base within with a small villous scale. © 
Petals elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Scales five, petaloid, as long 
. a8 the petals, obovate spathulate, inserted amongst the 
stamens. Stamens numerous; anthers with discrete cells. 
Ovary pubescent, globose; style very short, glabrous, 
swollen in the middle; stigma capitate, obscurely five- — 
lobed. Fruit one-third of an inch in diameter, depressed — 
globose, five-lobed, pericarp between coriaceous and crus- — 
taceous, warted.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 4, Vertical section of flower ; 2, stamens ; 3, petal; 4, ovary ; 5, transverse 
section of ditto; 6, transverse section of fruit; 7, seed; 8, section of same showing 
the embryo :— all enlarged. 3 
