, Tas. 8713. 
AESCULUS TuRBINATA. 
Japan. 
HIppocasTANACEAE. 
Arscutus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 898 
(Sapindaceae, subord. Sapindeae). 
Aesculus turbinata, Blume in Rumphia, vol. iii. p. 195 (1887); Shirasawa, 
Icon, Ess. For. vol. i.t. 71; Elwes d Henry in Trees of Gt. Brit. é Ireland, 
- vol. ii. p. 221; Schneider in Handb. der Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 246; Bean 
in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxi. p. 187, fig. 58, et in Trees & Shrubs, 
vol. i. p. 174; species A. Hippocastanum, Linn., in memoriam reducens sed 
ab eo fructu obovato minore verrucis nec tamen aculeis notato et foliolis 
margine minute aequabiliterque dentatis apte distinguenda. 
Arbor ad 80 m. alta; truncus ad 2 m. crassus; gemmae perviscidae; cortex 
annosus desquamatus; innovationes minute pubescentes. Folia decidua, 
palmatim 5-7-foliolata; foliola sessilia obovato-cuneata, breviter acu- 
minata, margine minute dentata, 10-25 cm. longa, 5-15 cm. lata, foliolo 
centrali basalibus plus quam duplo majore ; supra saturate viridia, subnitida, 
glabra ; subtus glaucescentia ad angulos costarum brunneo-floccosa ceterum 
glabra; petiolus 7°5-25em.longus. Paniculae aestate ineunte florescentes 
terminales, erectae, anguste pyramidatae, ad 25 cm. longae, basi ubi 
latissimae ad 8°5 cm. latae; rhachis pedicellique minute pubescentes ; 
flores singuli 1:5 cm. expansi. Calyx pubescens, campanulatus, 5-lobus ; 
lobi rotundati, ciliati. Petala 4, suborbicularia,. abrupte unguiculata, 
reflexa, supra pubescentia, margine ciliata, macula centrali primum lutea 
demum dilute rubicunda notata, ceterum gilva. Stamina ad normam 
7, valde exserta ; filamenta gracilia, decurva, 1:5 cm. longa, Ovariwm 
styloque pubescens. Capsula obovoidea, 8-locularis, demum 3-valvis, 
5 cm. longa, fere 5 cm. lata, verrucosa. Semina saturate brunnea, nitida, 
2°2-3°8 cm. lata.—A. sinensis, Hort. ex Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. 
p. 716, fig. 116. A. chinensis, Hort., non Bunge. A. japonica, Hort.— 
W. J. Bran. 
The Horse Chestnut here figured is a native of Japan 
which is less often met with in collections than its merits 
deserve. Where it is grown it is not infrequently con- 
fused with its Chinese congener, Aesculus chinensis, Bunge, 
and in such cases the name may be further erroneously 
transcribed. Even when the fact that it is not the tree 
described by Bunge is appreciated, the practice has 
obtained of terming it A. japonica, a name for which 
there 18 no authority. The nearest ally of A. turbinata, 
June, 1917, oe 
