fEsculus 
Indica 
74 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
SAPINDACEAS. 
that of the common Horse-chesnut, though they 
are altogether more delicate, especially in form. 
All parts of the infloresence very smooth. Petals 
four, widely spreading, especially the two lateral, 
which gives the flower a very different appearance 
from that of Pavia flava; they are white, deli- 
cately stained with yellow and_ rose colour. 
Stamens longer than the petals, but not so 
remarkably long as in Pavia macrostachya. Last 
year, 1859, the plant did not flower; nor has any 
one of the other three plants yet flowered. The 
tree comes into leaf later than A®sculus_ hippo- 
castanum® or rubicunda, or Pavia flava; ah etme 
time (May 2nd, 1860), those three species have 
quite unfolded their leaves, while the buds of 
Indica have not yet begun to open. The young 
leaves and shoots are of a beautiful red colour ; 
the full grown leaves of a very fine bright green. 
In the young trees that we have here, the 
ramification is very symmetrical; the branches 
ascending at a more acute angle than in the 
/Esculi generally. In the Western Himalayg@ 
where Henry* saw it, he describes it as a tree 
of the very largest size, and of remarkable beauty 
and grandeur; much more bold and picturesque 
in its growth than the common Horse-chesnut ; 
srowing especially in the ravines of the mountains 
and spreading its broad arms over the beds of 
* His brother, Colonel Bunbury. 
