Falham nursery, where the present drawing was taken. 
It is perfectly hardy, and flowers in May and June. The 
foliage is extremely handsome. 
The genus has been sometimes divided into Hippocasta- 
num, consisting only of the common Horse Chestnut, a 
native of Asia; and Pavia, now consisting of, six species, 
all natives of North America. In the first the corolla is 
5-petalled, in the second always 4-petalled. ‘The species in 
the last are called by the Anglo-Americans Buck’s-Eye- 
Trees, from the appearance of the chestnut out of its shell. 
Bark smooth, pale brown. Leaves soft, with the petioles 
sometimes a foot and half long: Jeaflets unequal, oblongly 
lanceolate without the least appearance of wrinkles, cuspi- 
dately acuminate, smooth and of a tender green above, with 
a midrib putting out from each side numerous parallel 
‘ascendent nerves, obsoletely serrate, covered underneath 
with a white woolly down, far tapered downwards, the 
lowermost side ones slanted. Thyrses terminal, upright, 
loosely manyflowered, 3-4 inches long, spreading, furred 
over with a close down; peduncle round, pedicles jointed at 
the base, lower one 3-flowered, upper ones 1-flowered, 
several times shorter than the corolla. _ Flowers an inch 
and half long, some with only stamens, some with sta- 
mens ‘and pistil, viscously tomentose, tricoloured, the red 
dots predominating in the hue. Calyx membranous paler 
than the corolla, cylindrical, somewhat swollen, 3 times 
shorter than the 2 longest petals, 5-toothed, teeth short, 
broad, unequal, rounded, one larger than the rest. Corolla 
4-petalled, varicosely veined, dotted with minute dark 
purple viscous glands: 2 outer petals opposite, upright, 
equalling the ungues of the two interior ones, with a cordate 
round pointed lamina: 2 inner petals upright, connivent, 
linearly spatulate, with a small obcordately round lamina 
slanting forwards. Stamens 7, inclosed, the length of the 
shorter petals, unequal; filaments woolly haired: anthers 
with orange-coloured pollen, Pistil equal to the stamens: 
ermen oblong, hirsute, white: style thicker than the fila- 
inents, covered with a purple downy pubescence. 
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