359 Small: Shrubs and Trees of the Southern States 



AEsculus austrina 



A shrub several meters tall, with pubescent foliage and in- 

 florescence. Leaf-blades 1-3 dm. broad, long-petioled ; leaflets 

 3-5, firm or leathery, oval or oval-ovate, short-acuminate at both 

 ends or acute at the oblique base (except in the case of the 

 terminal one), lustrous and glabrate above, except on the tomentose 

 nerves, densely tomentose beneath, sharply serrate, commonly 

 quite long-petioluled : panicles 1-1.5 dm. long, tomentose: 

 flowers deep red, about 3 cm. long : calyx tubular, red, 10-14 

 mm. long, glabrous ; lobes ovate, rounded : petals minutely gland- 

 ular, those of the upper pair with oval blades about as long as the 

 slightly villous claws, those of the lateral pair with obovate blades 

 which are exceeded several times in length by thair claws : stamens 

 exerted ; filaments sparingly villous. 



In low grounds, Louisiana. 



Most closely related to AEsculus Pavia, from which it differs in 

 the foliage and flowers. It is AEsailus Pavia /3 discolor of Torrey 

 and Gray,* in part, but not the AEsculus discolor of Pursh.f Tor- 

 rey and Gray's disposition of this plant is the most nearly correct 

 interpretation we have yet had. Dr. Gray later referred it to his 

 AEscuhcs flava var. purpurasccus, a species with which it has but 

 distant relationship. 



The specimen on which the species is founded was collected in 

 Louisiana by Dr. Hale and is preserved in the herbarium of 

 Columbia University. 



Hypericum interior 



A much branched shrub, several dm. tall, with sharply angled 

 branches and glabrous foliage. Leaves rather numerous ; blades 

 narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 1-3 cm. 

 long, acute, slightly revolute, pale beneath, narrowed into slender 

 petioles : panicles many-flowered : sepals linear or narrowly ob- 

 long, 3-4 mm. long, acute, rather rigid, more or less spreading at 

 maturity : corollas yellow, about i cm. broad : petals obovate or 

 cuneate-obovate : capsules conic-ovoid, 5 mm. long. 

 Along streams, Tennessee and Texas. Summer, 

 A shrubby species related to Hypericum galioidcs, but more 

 corymbosely branched, and with broader leaf-blades. The sepals 



*F1. N. A. I : 252. 

 t Fl. Am. Sept. 254. 



