CHAP. XXIII. ^SCULa'CE.T5. VA\IA. 



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¥ 6. P. macroca'rpa Hort. The long-fruited Pavia. 



Synonymes. .-E'sculus PJlv/n macrocarpa Lodd. Cat., 1830. ; Viyia macrocarpa in the Hort. Sor. 



Gard. 

 Engraving. Our plate in Vol. U. 



DbHnct. Char. Sfc. This tree i.s upwai'ds of 20 ft. high ; and that in the garden of 

 the London Horticultural Society, was, in ISS-i, 12 ft. high, after having been 

 8 years planted. This sort appears to us to be intermediate between some 

 variety of ^'sculus Hippocastanum and Pav/« riibra. The leaves are large, 

 smooth on the upper surface, and shining. The flowers are nearly as large as 

 those of the common horsechestnut, but with the petals less spreading, and of 

 a pale red colour mixed with yellow. The branches are spreading and loose; 

 and the whole tree has an open graceful appearance, quite different from 

 that compactness of form and rigidity of branches which belong to most 

 of the tree species and varieties both of v?<J'scukis and Viiwia. This sort can 

 scarcely be said to be in cultivation in the nurseries, notwithstanding its 

 claims to a place in every collection of ornamental trees. 



as 7. P. MACROSTA^CHYA Lois. The long-racemed Pavia. 



Idfniificalion. Lois. Herb. Amat.; Dec. Prod, 1. p. ,51)8. ; Don's Mill., ]. p. a52. 



Synonymes. ^sculus parvifl6ra Walt.; JE. macrostachya Mx. and Ilayne ; VAvfa alba Poir.; 



Vavia ediilis Pott. Arb. Fr., t. 88. ; Pavier a longs E'pis, Pavicr nain, />. ; langiihrige Rosskas- 



tanie, Gcr. 

 Engrauings. I^is. Herb. Amat., t. 212. ; Jacq. Eel., t. 9. ; Poit. Arb. Fr.,t. 88. ; Hayne AbbiW., t. 



26. ; Colla Hort. Rip., t. 19. ; and our^^. 137. 



Spec. Cliar.ySfc. Stamens much longer than the corolla; racemes very long. Root 

 stoloniferous. Flowers white. {Dec. Prod., i. p. 598.) A shrub, witii loose 

 racemes of white flowers, with long projecting stamens, which give the spike 

 a fine fringed appearance. A native of North America, on the banks of 

 rivers, more particularly in Georgia, near the little town of St. Augustin; 



