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LESCULUS neglecta. 
Dingy flowered Horse-Chestnut. 
states 
HEPTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. HippocasTaNER. 
ABSCULUS. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 310. 
JE. neglecta; foliis lanceolatis serrulatis basi attenuatis planis subplicatis 
- subtis glabris ad axillas venarum pilosis, calyce campanulato obtusé 
5-dentato pedunculi longitudine, staminibus corolla sublongioribus, 
petalis superioribus venosis, ovario tomentoso. 
AE. flave affinis; differt tamen, Petiolo glabro subterete vix depresso ; 
Foliolis magzs glubris, ad axillas venarum pilosis, venis supra rufo-puberulis ; 
Calyce subrotundo campanulato, -pilis nigris, glandulosis vestito, pedicelle 
longitudine, subregulariter obtuse 5-dentato; Petalis Al. flave similibus, 
superioribus latiorebus, cuneato-obovatis, subundulatis, pulcherrime rubro 
venosis; lateralibus rubentibus ; Staminibus pilostusculis petalorum latera- 
lium longitudine ; Ovario oblongo tomentoso. 
This new species was purchased by the Horticultural 
Society from M. Catros, of Bourdeaux, under the name of 
#. Ohiotensis, a very different kind. It is most nearl 
related to Ai. flava, a common plant, from which it differs 
in several important respects. 
It flowers a week or ten days earlier than that species ; 
the Petiole is smooth, roundish, and scarcely flattened ; 
the Leaflets are more glabrous, with rufous down on the 
veins on the upper side, and with hairs at the axils of the 
veins beneath; the Calya is roundish, campanulate, clothed 
with black, glandular hairs, is the length of the pedicels, 
and is pretty regularly and bluntly 5-toothed; the Petals 
are like those in J. flava, but the upper ones are broader, 
cuneate-obovate, somewhat wavy, and beautifully veined 
with red; the lateral petals are also pinkish; the Stamens 
