ADDISONIA ; 45 
(Plate 63) 
AESCULUS PARVIFLORA 
Small-flowered Buckeye 
Native of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama 
Family AERSCULACEAE Buckeye Family 
Aesculus parviflora Walt. Fl. Car. 128. 1788. 
Aesculus macrostachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 220. 1803, 
An erect, many-stemmed shrub, becoming ten feet tall, with 
ascending or upwardly amit branches and pale glabrous branch- 
lets. ‘The leaves are numerous and usually conceal the stems and 
branches. ‘The petioles are Shoat half a foot long, sometimes with 
scattered spreading hairs when young. The blades are pedately 
compound, with five, or exceptionally seven, leaflets at the slightly 
thickened apex of the petiole. The leaflets are dark-green and 
glabrous above, p aiecinten and pubescent with short hairs beneath; 
the blades of the t three upper leaflets are obovate or elliptic-o obovate, 
usually six to nine inches long, and rather long-petioluled; those 
of the lower pair of leaflets are much smaller than the others, 
opores. elliptic, or ovate, and short-petioluled; all the leaflets 
ong-acuminate at the apex and finely and unevenly serrate. 
The flowers are borne in many, often numerous, erect, plume-like, 
narrow panicles, which terminate long peduncles that resemble 
the petioles. The pedicels are slender, about as long as the calyxes. 
The calyx is tubular-campanulate, about a quarter of an inch long, 
with obtuse unequal lobes. The petals are white, much exserted 
from the calyx, about three quartet of an inch long, spatulate, 
slightly unequal, with a midrib which divides into several veins 
in the broader part of the ‘blade. The stamens are nearly twice as 
long as the petals or more, with thread-like filaments. The anthers 
are oval, reddish, about one twelfth of an inch long. ‘The fruits 
are globose, an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter 
and smooth. ‘The brown seeds are usually solitary in each fruit. 
This buckeye was discovered, in what has proved to be about the 
extreme eastern limit of its geographical range, in the latter half 
of the nineteenth century. It was first named and described about 
the last decade (1788) of that century by Thomas Walter, a resident 
of South Carolina. In 1803 the plant was renamed as Aesculus 
macrostachya by André Michaux, who also collected it in the eastern 
part of its range. This name was in vogue in Europe for many 
years, 
