PA'VIA RU'BRA. 
RED-FLOWERED PAVIA, 
Order. 
monogynia. 
Class. 
heptandria. 
Natural Order. 
sapindacea;. 
Native of 
N. America 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
30 feet. 
July. 
Shrub. 
Introduced 
in 1711. 
No. 1218. 
The name, Pavia, was adopted in honour of Peter 
Paw, a Dutch botanist, who was professor of botany, 
at Leyden. 
The trees now brought together in the genus 
Pavia, were formerly mixed with those called JEscu- 
lus, or common horse-chestnut. The cause of their 
separation arose from the difference of their cap- 
sules, those of the iEsculus being rough, whilst those 
of Pavia are smooth. 
The flowers of the Pavia rubra, although much 
smaller than those of the common Horse Chestnut, 
are very ornamental ; and from its ready adaptation 
to any situation, as a tree of large dimensions, or as 
a shrub of low growth, it may be made useful in 
small or large shrubberies, or in parks. In a few 
situations, as at Syon, it has attained the height of 
about thirty feet, whilst in some gardens, it may be 
seen as a shrub of only five or six feet. 
Hybrid varieties, between several of the species of 
Pavia and .ZEsculus are obtainable in nurseries, but 
they should be selected when in flower. They may 
be propagated by grafting one upon another of any 
of the species. 
