28 " LXIX, ARALIACEZ (HIERN). | Panax. 
short, erect in flower, spreading in fruit, free from the base; epigynous 
disk more or less conical; ovary 2-celled. Fruit 2-celled drupaceous. 
Albumen sulcate, not ruminated. Trees with impari-pinnately com- 
pound leaves; leaflets entire, opposite, sessile or subsessile. | Inflo- 
rescence panicled; bracts and bracteoles caducous ; pedicels jointed at 
the apex to the polygamous flowers. 
A considerable genus, inhabiting also Tropical and Eastern Asia, New Zealand, Aus- 
tralia, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. 
Leaflets glabrous, cordate at base, thinly coriaceous. 
Teaflets tomentose beneath » 2 2 1 1 6 eee ee CO BP pinnatum. 
Leaflets cordate at the base, coriaceous . . . . . . . . 2. 2. ferrugineum. 
Leaflets not cordate at the base, thinly coriaceous. . . . . 3. P. fulvum. 
1. P. pinnatum, A. Rich. in Fl. Abyss. i. 835. A small tree with 
glabrous leaves, crowded at the ends of the branches, 16 in. long, with 
terete subsulcate petioles, nearly a foot long. Branchlets herbaceous, 
thick, marked by the scars of fallen leaves, floccoso-tomentose. Leaflets 
11-19, oblong, acute, cordate at the base, glaucescent, 3—5 in. long, 
the lower ones the longer. Umbellules many, arranged in racemes 
6-8 in. long, which are placed near together in a terminal inflo- 
rescence, the main axis especially of which is covered with a farinose 
pale yellowish tomentum. Bracteoles tomentose, stalks of the umbel- 
ules 4—} in. long; rays zy in. long, ovary striate, glabrous; disk 
conical, surmounted by 2 short styles. Young fruit } in. long.—Aralia 
pinnata, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. n. 1583. 4. farinosa, Delil. in 
Ferr. & Gal., Voy. Abyss. iii, 135, n. 72, teste Seemann. Nothopanax 
Jarinosum, Seem. in Rev. Heder. 72. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, fl. April, Schimper! Ferret and Galinier. 
2. P. ferrugineum, Hiern. Tree 20 feet high, covered at the 
extremities and on underside of leaflets with stellate tomentum. Leaves 
pinnate, obovate-oblong, with terete midrib, 4 ft. long; leaflets 15, 
ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, much cordate at the base, subsessile, 
2-5} in. long, coriaceous, shagreened above with depressed net-veins, 
covered with ferruginous tomentum beneath, pinnately veined. Inflo- 
rescence 15 in. long or more; racemes of the inflorescence ranging uP 
to 4} in. long; flowers subsessile, glabrous, 1-8 together. Fruit 
broadly ovate, glabrous, slightly emarginate at base, contracted along 
middle line, }—} in. long and wide. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ankober, Dr. Roth! 
Abyssinian name, Gingiro Wombir. 
3. P. fulvum, Hiern. Tree 30-40 ft. high, covered at the extre- 
mities and on underside of leaflets with fulvous stellate tomentum. 
Leaves pinnate, oblong, with terete midrib, a foot long or more; pe- 
tioles 4 in. long, half amplexicaul at base; leaflets 9, ovate-oblong, 
suddenly acuminate, wide at the base but not cordate, shortly stalked, 
3-6 in. long, stalks {-} in. long, thinly coriaceous, dark green above. 
Inflorescence 15 in. long; racemes of inflorescence ranging up to 13 in. 
