128 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
171-  42'sculus glabra pallida. 
Other Kinds of 7E/sculus are enumerated in-some nurserymen’s catalogues ; 
but we know of none worth notice, except those already recorded. 
Genus II. 
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PAVIA Boerh. Tue Pavia, BUCKEYE, or SMOOTH-FRUITED HORSECHEST- 
nut TREE. Lin. Syst. Heptandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Boerh. Lugd., t. 260. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p.598.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 652. 
Derivation.’ In honour of Peter Paw, a Dutch botanist, once professor of botany at Leyden. 
Buckeye has reference to the conspicuousness of the hilum of the seed, when taken out of the 
husk. 
Gen. Char, Calyx tubular. Petals 4, erect, narrow. Stamens straight. Cap- 
sules unarmed. (Don’s Mill.) — Middle-sized deciduous trees or shrubs, 
natives of North America; distinguishable from the horsechestnuts by the 
smoothness of their fruit, and the comparative smallness of their flowers, 
which have their petals erect and narrower. 
Leaves palmate, with 5—7 leaflets, smooth. Flowers small, with erect 
and narrow petals. Buds blunt, not covered with resin.— There are three 
species, and several varieties or hybrids, in British gardens. 
Distinguished from the common horsechestnuts, by being smaller and 
smoother in all their parts. There are probably only three aboriginal species ; 
but there are several beautiful garden varieties, or hybrids. Culture the same 
as for the common horsechestnut. 
#1. P. ru‘pra Lam. The red-fowered Pavia, 
Identification. Lam. Ilust.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 598.,; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 653. 
Synonymes. Zs’sculus Pavia Lin. and Tor. & Gray; . Pavia var. « rdbra Hayne Dend. p.44.; 
Pavea parviflora Hort. ; small Buckeye, Amer. ; Marronier Pavie, or Pavie 4 Fleurs rouges, Fr. ; 
rothe Rosskastanie, Ger.; Marrone di Paw, Ital. : 
Ener avings. Lam. Illust., t.273., Hayne Abbild., t. 21.; Wats. Dend., t.120.; Krause, t.55.; the 
plate of the tree in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. v. ; and our fig. 173. 
Spec. Char., §c. Corolla of 4 petals, that are longer than the stamens. 
Leaflets 5, elliptic-oblong, tapered to both ends, and smooth, as is the 
petiole; axils of the nerves hairy on the under surface of the leaf. (Dec. 
Prod.) A slender-growing tree. Virginia and Carolina, on mountains. 
Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1711. Flowers brownish scarlet ; 
May and June. Fruit brown; ripe in October. Decaying leaves brown. 
Naked young wood reddish brown. 
