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large lobes joined at their bafe, having a pretty long 
common footitalk: they are fomewhat wedge fhape, 
or narrower towards the bafe than the point, veined 
with oblique parallel veins, and fawed on their edges. 
The flowers are produced in a loofe thyrfus , at the ex- 
tremity of the branches, of a pale yellowifli colour; 
and are fucceeded by fruit near the fize of the eaftern 
Horfe-Chefnut. 
2. JEsculus Pavia. Scarlet flowering Horfe- 
Chefnut. 
This is but of humble growth, feldom rifing to 
more than ten or twelve feet high; fending out feve^ 
ral branches, with leaves and flowers much like the 
former, except the flowers being of a bright red 
colour : they (land upon fhort naked footflalks, 
branching from the common Item, generally five or 
fix together in each thyrfus . They are tubulous at 
bottom but fpread open at top, where the petals are 
irregular in fize and length, having fomething the 
appearance of a lip flower ; they have feven or eight 
(lamina the length of the petals. When the flower 
fades the Germen fwells to a pear lhaped fruit, with 
a thick ruflfet coloured covering, containing fome- 
times one or two nuts. 
A M O R P H A, 
BASTARD-INDIGO. 
Clafs 17. Order 3. Diadelphia Decandria. 
T HE Empalement is of one leaf, tubulous, cylindrical and 
top-ihaped: at the mouth ereft, five- toothed, and ob- 
tufe: the two fuperior teeth largeft; permanent. 
The Corolla is a fingie petal, inverfe egg-fhape, concave, fcar.ce 
larger than the calyx, ere&, inferted in the calyx between 
the two largeft upper teetfl, and placed on the upper fide. 
The 
