the Japanese Horse Chestnut, is the European A. Hippo- 
castanum, Linn., itself ; from that familiar tree it is well 
distinguished by the smaller, obovate, and warted, but 
not spiny capsules, and by the finely and more evenly 
toothed edges of the leaflets. In its foliage A. turbinuta 
is the noblest of all the Horse Chestnuts ; young trees at 
Kew carry leaves which, with their stalks, are sometimes 
twenty-seven inches long. One merit of this Japanese 
Species is that it flowers somewhat later than the 
common Horse Chestnut. For the material from which 
our plate has been prepared we are indebted to Lieut.-Col. 
Sir George Holford. The tree from which it was gathered 
is growing close to his residence at Westonbirt, and is 
about thirty feet high, with a trunk two feet nine inches 
in girth, and a rounded crown of branches thirty feet 
across. This tree and another larger one at Westonbirt 
we believe to be the largest of their kind in the 
country. They were planted, Sir George informs us, by 
the late Mr. R. S. Holford about thirty-four years ago. 
In autumn the leaves turn clear golden yellow, then 
brown. These trees produce seeds from which young 
plants have been raised. 
Description.—Tree, at its largest 100 ft. high and 20 ft. in girth of trunk; 
bark of old trees scaling; winter buds very viscid; young shoots minutely 
‘ pubescent. Leaves 5-7-foliate, deciduous; leaflets sessile, 4-15 in, long, 2-6 in. 
wide, the terminal leaflets more than twice the size of the basal pair; obovate- 
cuneate, shortly acuminate, finely serrate; deep bright green and glabrous 
above, glaucescent and with axil-tufts of pale brown tomentum beneath ; 
petiole 3-16 in. long. Panicles terminal, erect, slenderly pyramidal, up to 
10 in. long by 3} in. wide at the base; rachis and pedicels finely pubescent. 
Flowers 2 in. in diameter, opening in late May. Calyx pubescent, campanulate, 
5-lobed ; the lobes rounded, ciliate. Petals 4, subrotund with a narrow claw, 
reflexed, creamy-white with central-blotches of yellow which turn pink with 
age; pubescent above, ciliate. Stamens usually 7, much exserted; filaments 
slender, decurved, $ in. long. Ovary and style pubescent. Fruit an obovoid, 
8-celled, leathery capsule, 2 in. in length and width, the thick 3-valved pericarp 
covered with brown warts. Seeds dark shining brown, 1-1} in. wide. 
Tas, 8713,—Fig. 1, part of a leaflet ; 2, flower ; 3, calyx; 4,a petal; 5 and 
6, anthers; 7, pistil; 8, an abortive pistil ; 9, fruit; 10, seed ;—all enlarged 
except 9 and 10, which are of natural size, 
