TREES AND SHRUBS. 



^SCULUS GEOKGIANA, Sakg. 



iEsCULTJS GEORGIANA, 71. Sp. 



Leaves five-foliate, their petioles slender, glabrous, from 1.2 to 1.5 decimetres in length ; leaflets 

 oblong-obovate, abruptly acuminate and long-pointed at the apex, gradually narrowed and acu- 

 minate at the base, finely often doubly serrate with rounded teeth pointing forward, sparingly 

 covered early in the season especially along the upper side of the midribs ami veins with short 

 caducous hairs, yellow-green above, green, glabrous and lustrous below, from 1.2 to 1.8 decimetres 

 long and from 4 to 7 centimetres wide, with stout orange-colored midribs and from 20 to 30 

 pairs of slender primary veins, their petiolules stout, puberulous early in the season, from 5 to 10 

 millimetres in length. Flowers from 3 to 3.5 centimetres long, on slender puberulous pedicels, 

 in broad pubescent panicles from 1 to 1.5 decimetres in length ; calyx campanulate, puberulous, 

 about 1 centimetre in diameter, red on the upper side, pale yellow-green on the lower side, five- 

 lobed, the lobes oblong-ovate, narrowed and rounded at the apex, finely ciliate on the margins ; 

 petals connivent, obovate, rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed below, those of the superior and 

 lateral pairs very unequal in size, puberulous and glandular on the outer surface, pubescent on the 

 inner surface, ciliate on the margins, light yellow when the flowers open, becoming bright red, 

 their claws furnished on the margins with long white hairs, those of the superior pair as long 

 as the lateral petals ; stamens 7, shorter than the petals, their filaments villose especially below 

 the middle ; ovary covered with matted pale hairs ; styles exserted, villose. Fruit on stout 

 pendulous pedicels, globose, usually 1-seeded, about 3 centimetres in diameter, with thin light 

 brown slightly pitted valves; seed globose, dark chestnut-brown. 



A broad round-topped shrub, from 1 to 2 metres high, with stout glabrous branchlets dark 

 orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming light reddish brown 

 during their first winters. Winter-buds obtuse, from 7 to 8 millimetres long, with light brown 

 scales, narrowed, rounded and short-apiculate at the apex. Flowers in April and May. Fruit 

 ripens in September. 



Georgia : open fields and woods in the neighborhood of Stone Mountain, De Kalb County, com- 

 mon, C. S. Sargent, May 3, 1899, and April 16, 1900 ; A. II. Curtiss, May 9, 1901 (No. 6774 

 in Herb. Gray as ^Eseulus flava, var.) ; T. G. Harbison, September, 1905, April 30, 1912. 



This shrub is well distinguished by its short compact inflorescence and red petals, and in the normal form by the 

 glabrous leaflets. There is a form, however, growing with the type with leaflets covered below early in the season with 

 loose pale pubescence which may be called — 

 Var. pubescens, n. var. 



Stone Mountain, Georgia, rare ; T. G. Harbison, April, 1912 (Nos. 907, type, and 906). 



This variety has appeared in the Arnold Arboretum among seedlings of the type, and both forms have flowered here 

 and proved hardy and valuable garden plants. 1 



1 The description of a probable hybrid of jEscuIus georgiana with one of the red-flowered Eupavise species may be added here. 

 iEscums Harbisoni, n. hyb. (jEscuIus georgiana X discolor, var. mollis ?). 



Leaves five-foliate, their petioles puberulous, tinged with red, from 1.2 to 1.8 decimetres in length ; leaves oblong-obovate, 

 acuminate at the ends, finely crenately serrate, early in the season bright yellow-green and pubescent on the midribs and veins 

 above, paler and sparingly pubescent below, from 2.2 to 2.3 decimetres long and from 7 to 8 centimetres wide, with stout midribs 

 and from twenty-five to thirty pairs of primary veins, their petiolules stout, puberulous, 1 centimetre in length. Flowers on stout 

 pubescent red pedicels, in wide red puberulous panicles, about 1.5 decimetres long ; calyx rose-colored, about 1.5 centimetres in 



