TREES AND SHRUBS. 



.ESCULUS GLAUCESCENS, Sakg. 



iEsCULUS GLAUCESCENS, 71. Sp. 



Leaves five-foliate, their petioles stout, glabrous, from 1.2 to 1.8 decimetres in length ; leaflets 

 oblong-obovate to elliptical, acuminate and long-pointed at the apex, gradually narrowed and 

 rounded or cuneate at the base, finely doubly serrate with short blunt teeth, dark green, lustrous 

 and pubescent or puberulous along the midribs on the upper surface, glaucescent and glabrous or 

 occasionally furnished with small tufts of axillary hairs on the lower surface, from 1.5 to 2.2 deci- 

 metres long and from 7 to 9 centimetres wide, with stout orange-colored midribs and from 25 to 

 30 pairs of slender primary veins, their petiolules stout, glabrous, from 1.2 to 1.4 centimetres in 

 length. Flowers about 3 centimetres long, on stout glandular-pubescent pedicels, in broad scurfy- 

 pubescent panicles ; calyx campanulate, scurfy-pubescent on the outer surface, five-lobed, the lobes 

 acute or rounded at the apex, glandular on the margins, puberulous on their inner surface ; 

 petals connivent, unequal, yellow, pubescent, ciliate on the margins, their claws villose, exceeding 

 the calyx ; limb of the superior pair obovate or suborbicular, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 

 base, those of the lateral pair much larger, broadly ovate, rounded or acute at the apex, cuneate at 

 the base; stamens usually 7, rather shorter or as long as the petals; filaments villose; styles exserted, 

 villose to the apex; ovary tomentose above the middle, pubescent below. Fruit subglobose, 

 with thin light brown slightly pitted valves ; seeds depressed subglobose, dark chestnut-brown, 

 lustrous, about 2.5 centimetres in diameter, their hilum often 1.5 centimetres in diameter. 



A shrub, from 2 to 3 metres high, with stout branchlets dark orange-green and puberulous when 

 they first appear, becoming light brown, glabrous and marked by numerous small orange-green 

 lenticels during their first season. Winter-buds ovate, obtuse, from 8 to 12 millimetres long, 

 their scales light chestnut-brown, rounded and obtuse or acute at the apex. Flowers the middle 

 of May. Fruit ripens from the middle to the end of September. 



Georgia : on hills and ridges in forests of Oak and Hickory on freestone soil, near Cornelia, 1 

 Habersham County, T. G. Harlison, May 18 and October 8, 1911 (Nos. 619, type, 610, 618, 620), 

 September 24, 1910 (No. 157); near Baldwin, Hall County, September 26, 1910 (No. 158). 



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This handsome shrub differs from JEsculus octandra Marshall in habit, in its glabrous petioles, larger leaflets some- 

 times rounded at the base, less pubescent on the upper surface and pale and glabrous on the lower surface, in the generally 

 longer petiolules and in the larger flowers. The calyx is broader, less deeply lobed and less pubescent ; the filaments 

 and styles of uEsculus octandra are less villose, the styles of JEsculus glaucescens being conspicuously villose to the apex. 

 The fruit is much smaller than that of JEsculus octandra; the branchlets are as stout as or stouter than those of that 

 species, and the winter buds are smaller. 



1 Cornelia is very near the Hall County line, and the corner of Banks County is also near Cornelia. Nos. 618, 619, and 620 

 were collected about three miles along the road from Cornelia to Homer, the county seat of Banks County, known as the Banks 



