4. JE. Pavia (Linn.): stamens somewhat shorter, or a part of them a
little longer, than the (red) corolla; petals 4, connivent, very unequal; the
claws of the lateral ones about the length of the tubular calyx ; thyrsus loose,
the branches few-flowered; leaflets 5, ohlofig-lanceolate, cuneate-oblong, or
oval, slightly acuminate, unequally serrulate, minutely pubescent, or nearly
glabrous except along the veins beneath.—Ait. Kew. 1. p. 494; Walt. Car.
p. 128; Michx.! fl. 1. p. 219; Pursh, J l. 1. p. 254; Ell. sk. 1. p. 434;
Audubon, birds o f Amer. t. 78. Pavia, Boerh. Lugd.-Bat. 2. t. 260; Du-
ham. arb. 2. t. 19. P. rubra, Lam. ill. t. 273; DC. l.c. P. Michauxii, &c.,
Spach, l. c.
A. discolor : branches of the thyrsus several- (4-10-) flowered, with the
flowers somewhat unilateral; leaflets minutely tomentose beneath.—A3. discolor,
Pursh, l. c. ? ; Bot. reg. t. 310 ? A3. hybrida, DC. hort. Monsp. 1813.
p. 75 1 Pavia hybrida, DC. prodr. 1. c.? P. discolor, Spach, l. c. 1
In fertile valleys ; mountains of Virginia! to Georgia ! Louisiana ! and Arkansas
! April-May.—A shrub 3-10 feet high ; near the mountains sometimes
a small tree. Leaflets often somewhat doubly serrate, all except the
lateral ones usually attenuate at the base, at length petiolulate, smooth and a
little shining above. Branches of the thyrsus about 3-flowe,red: pedicels
slender. Flowers large. Calyx purplish, nearly glabrous, tubular-funnel-
shaped. Upper petals longest; the claw about thrice the length of the small
spatulate limb: limb of the lateral petals roundish, about the length of the
claw, somewhat convolute. Stamens 6-8 : filaments filiform, nearly straight,
hairy below, as also the claws of the petals, sometimes all a little shorter than
the lateral petals; but a portion usually a little exceeding the upper petals.—
Our (3. discolor, of which we have specimens both from Georgia and Louisiana,
is not improbably the A3, discolor of Pursh. The inflorescence resembles
that of A3, flava; but the flowers (apparently pale dull red, or purple)
are wholly those of A3. Pavia.—According to Elliott, the bruised branches
or powdered seeds of this species are sometimes employed to stupify fish:
when the water of small ponds is impregnated, the fish rise to the surface almost
lifeless, and may be taken with the hand. The root, according to the
same authority, is used as a substitute for soap in washing woollen clothes.—
Small Buckeye.
5. JE. jla va (Ait.): stamens shorter than the (light yellow) corolla; petals
4, connivent, very unequal; the claws of the lateral opes,exceeding the
campanulate calyx; branches of the thyrsus 4-7-flowered ; the flowers mostly
unilateral; leaflets 5-7, elliptical or obovate-oblong, acuminate, serrulate,
more or less canescently pubescent beneath.—Ait. Kew. 1. p. 494; Willd.
Berl. baum. p. 13, cf sp. 2. p. 286; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 255; Ell. sk. 1. p. 4(36.
iE.lutea, Wang, in act. tint scrut. Berol. 8. t. 6 ; M ich x .! fl. 1. p. 219;
Pers. syn. 1. p. 403. A3, neglecta, Lindl. bot. reg. t. 1009 l Pavia flava,
DC. 1. c. P. lutea, Poir.; Michx. f . sylv. 2. p. 98, t. 91; Duham. arb. 3.
t. 38.
Near large rivers (in rich soil), Western States! and along the Alleghany
Mountains from Virginia and N. Carolina ! to Georgia. April-May.—Tree
30-80 feet high (in the Southern States sometimes only 4-6 feet high, according
to Elliott) ; the trunk often 3 or 4 feet in diameter. Petioles with a
pubescent line along the upper side. Leaflets glabrous above, except the
midrib and veins, which are often clothed with a reddish-brown pubescence,
at first nearly sessile, at length petiolulate ; the lateral ones sometimes rather
obtuse, but the others attenuate, at the base. Peduncles, pedicels, and calyx
pubescent. Pedicels very short. Flowers as large as in A3. Pavia. Petals
puberulent; the claws villous within: upper ones a little exceeding the
others; the spatulate limb minute: lateral ones large, roundish, subcordate at
the base. Stamens usually 7: filaments straight or somewhat arcuate, subulate,
villous. Ovary pubescent. Fruit 2 inches or more in diameter, about
2-seeded. Seeds larger than in the common Horse-Chestnut.—Sweet Buckeye.
Big Buckeye. Mr. Riddell ( Synopsis o f Western plants, p. 34.) notices
“ a species of A3sculus, growing near Cincinnati, Ohio, which resembles
A3, flava, but differs in the deep orange and yellow hue of its flowers, in its
glabrous irregularly serrate leaves, and more acute divisions of the calyx,”
J Uncertain species, probably forms which have originated in gardens.
6. A3. car,nea (Willd.) : capsules echinate; stamens 7, longer than the 4-petaIous
(deep pink) corolla ; anthers glabrous ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous,
woolly in the axils of the veins beneath. Don.—“ Willd. ex Guimp. fy Hayne, freuad.
holz. t. 22; Lindl. bot reg. t, 1056. A3, rubicunda, Loisel. herb. amat. t. 367; DC.
prodr. 1. p. 597.” Pavia carnea, Spach, l. c.; Don, in Brit. jl. gard. (ser. 2.) t. 301.
North America!—A small tree.
7. AS. (sub Paviaf Watsoniana (Spach) : capsules echinate; flowers octandrous
(dark red); claws of the lateral petals a little shorter than the calyx ; stamens somewhat
shorter than thé lateral petals the anthers pubescent along the margin ; leaflets
5-8, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Spach, l. c. p. 53.
This species, according to Spach, is the A3, carnea, Watson, dendr. Brit. t. 121.
(A3, rubicunda, Lodd. bot. cab. t. 1242.): the description seems to have been drawn
merely from Watson’s figure.
8. A3, humilis (Lodd.) : capsules unarmed ; stem decumbent; leaflets 5, lanceolate,
petiolulate, Unequally serrate, pubescent beneath; calyx cylindrical-funnel-shaped
and pubescent, as well as the corolla ; stamens included, a little longer than the calyx
; flowers blood-colored, in loose racemes. G. Don, sub Pavia.—“ Lodd. ; Lindl.
bot. reg. t. 1018.”
North America.—A shrub 2-3 feet high.
Pavia lucida, P. intermedia, P. Willdenoviana, P. Lindleyana, and P. atropur-
purea, of Spach may be safely referred to A3sculus Pavia. P. mutabilis, P. livida,
and perhaps P. versicolor, of the same author, appear to be forms of what we consider
the same species.
2. UNGNODIA. Endl. atakta botanica, p ... t . .
We have not yet received the above-cited work of Endlicher, in the fifth fasciculus
of which (according to Sir Wm. Hooker) this very remarkable genus is figured
and described. The plant was collected by the late Mr. Drummond in Texas, and
specimens were distributed with his first Texan collection. It forms a large tree :
the leaves are alternate, and pinnately 5-foliolate: the flowers are small, in few-flowered
racemes, which appear to be axillary or clustered along the branches : the sepals
are nearly distinct: petals 5 (rarely 6), similar, spreading, with an obovate
slightly crenulate lamina, raised on a short and very thick woolly claw, which bears
at its summit a curious fimbriate crest: stamens 8-10, declined and much exsertsd,
a portion of them apparently somewhat coherent with a small unilateral appendage
or projection of the torus, or with the base of the (effete 1) ovary. Fruit not seen.
Or d e r XLY. SA P IN D A C E iE . J u ss .
Flowers usually polygamous. Sepals 4 -5 , distinct or nearly so, im.
bricated in aestivation. Petals as many as the sepals and alternate
with them, or fewer by the abortion o f one (sometimes entirely wanting),
inserted outside the hypogynous disk (or row o f glands) which occupies
the bottom o f the calyx ; the inside either naked or hairy, glandular
or furnished with a petaloid scale. Stamens 8 or 10, rarely fewer or
more numerous, inserted either on the disk, or between the glands and