G. 24} CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 83: 
minutely pubescent beneath; the pubes- 
cent petiole flattish toward the base. 
Flowers yellow, not spreading. Spring. 
Fruit globose, uneven but not prickly, 
2in. indiameter. Seeds large (lin.), 1 or 
2 in number, mahogany-colored; ripe in % 
autumn. Often a large tree, sometimes 
only ashrub, 6 to 70ft. high, in rich woods; 
Virginia to Indiana, and southward. Cul- 
tivated oc- 
casionally 
throughout. ae Bava: 
Var. purpurascens of this species has 
flesh-colored or dull-purple flowers, and 
leaflets quite downy beneath. 
5. A@isculus parviflora, Walt. 
(Lone-RaceMED Buckeye.) Leaflets 
5 to 7, ovate, acuminate, serrate, vel- 
vety with hairs beneath. Flowers 
white, in long, slender, erect clusters ; 
July; petals 4, spreading; stamens very 
long. <A beautiful, widely spreading 
shrub, 5 to 18 ft. high; from the South- 
ern States; often cultivated. Probably 
Z. parviflora. hardy throughout. 
Genus 24. KQLREUTERIA. 
A small tree with alternate, once to twice irregularly 
pinnate leaves with many coarsely toothed leafiets. Flow- 
‘ers conspicuous, yellow, in terminal panicles. In summer. 
Fruit rounded, bladdery, 3-celled, 
few-seeded pods; ripe in autumn. 
Keelreutéria paniculata, Laxm. Leaf- 
lets thin and very irregularly toothed. 
Clusters 6 to 12 in. long, of many ir- 
regular flowers, 14 in. wide; through 
the summer. Fruit an ovate, bladdery 
capsule, ripening in autumn. A fine, 
small, round-headed tree, 20 to 40 ft. 
high; from China. Probably hardy 
throughout. P 5 
