fEsculus 
Indica 
fEsculus 
machrus- 
tachya 
7 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
SAPINDACE ZA. 
been raised from the seeds. October, 1868; the 
fruit rather plentiful this year. Capsule quite 
smooth, not much smaller than that of the common — 
Horse-chesnut, but of a more irregular and 
eccentric shape, as if unequally developed. 
ZESCULUS MACROSTACHYA. 
Pavia macrostachia.—Loudon, v. 1, 473. 
Asculus parviflora.—Walther (and of Gardeners 
generally ). 
Two or three good plants in the arboretum, and 
others in the pleasure ground. A very pretty 
shrub, thriving extremely well here, and seemingly 
quite hardy, tlowering well every year; not however 
ripening seed, and seldom even forming its fruit. 
The long upright spires of delicate white flowers, 
feathery, with the long slender prominent stamens, 
are very beautiful; and the young leaves in the 
spring are not less so. The leaf-stalks at that 
season, are of a ruby red color; the leaflets of a 
soft light red, neatly folded lengthwise, and most 
resularly and elegantly feather veined. The 
structure of the leaf buds, which is essentially the 
same in all the Horse-chesnuts, is shown with 
beautiful distinctness in this species, when they 
begin to expand. The outermost layers or scales, 
of the bud are merely dilated petioles, without any 
blade; the next within them consist of petioles 
still more dilated, crowned with very small and 
