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tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds

tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds

Heptandria Monogynia. The bark has been advised as a substitute for cinchona. Both bark and fruit are astringent. Externally, it has been employed, like cinchona, in gangrene.

The horse chestnut. Deprived of esculin by treatment with alkalis, it has been used as food. It is of little or no use therapeutically. [Lat.]