N. 0. 8APINDACE/E. 
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generally observed in the same disease under the use of ordi- 
nary purgatives. This is the chief cause of my including the 
above plant in this work (Moodeen Sheriff). 
311 . sEscuhis hippocastanum, Linn, ji.f.b.t., 
i . 675 * 
Eng. Horse-chestnut. 
Vern : — Pu (Pb..J. 
Habitat : — Found in India only in a state of cultivation. 
North America, Temparate Asia, Asia Minor; Central 
Asia. 
Large trees, often reaching 50-00 ft., with a broad pyram- 
idal outline or shrubs. Trunk erect. Leaves opposite ex-stipulate, 
digitately composite ; leaflets 7, broad, unequal in size serrate. 
FlowerS irregular, polygamous, interminal, more or less elongate, 
branched cymiferous racemes. Cymes often 1-parous. Lobes of 
gamophyllous tubular Calyx 5, unequal, imbricate. Corolla 
snowy white, dashed with pink and yellow, inodorous. Petals 5, 
or, the 5th place vacant, 4, unequal unguiculate ; claw linear, 
compressed or canaliculate; limb in-appendiculate, imbricate. 
Stamehs 5-8, subcentric ; filaments free, interior to annular 
or unilateral disk. Sub-bypogynous, erect or- arcuately decli- 
nate. Anthers introse, 2-rimose, dehiscent by two longitudinal 
clefts. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) sub-centric, sessile, 
3-locular, the ovular coat is double. Style terminal, elongate, 
apex stigmatose, simple. Ovules in cells 2, inserted in the internal 
angle ; one ascendent ; raphe ventral ; the other descendent ; 
raphe dorsal. Fruit capsular, 3-locular, smooth or more rarely 
ecliinate, coriaceous, globose or sub-3-lobed, loculicidal, cells, 
1-3, 1-2-spermous. Seeds sub-globose ; hilum large. Testa 
smooth, coriaceous, exarillate. Cotyledons of ex-albuminous 
embryo thickly fleshy, hemi-spherical, conferruminate. Radicle 
arched, more or less sheathed within the testa. The pollen is 
ellipsoid. 
*In Hooker’s F. B. I., contributor W. P. Hiern says, at p. 675; “the 
JEsrulus Hippocastanum, Linn, is said to be indigenous in North India, but it 
is not now known in the wild state (1875 A. I).)’’— K, R. K. 
