Panaz.] LXIX. ARALIACEE (HIERN). 29 
long. Flowers subsessile, eaprens pedicels 4 in. long, crowded. 
Calyx and corolla brown. Fruit ? not mature on the specimens. Pe- 
tals calyptrate. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 1300 ft. alt., Mann! 
2. HEPTAPLEURUM, Gertn.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 942. 
Margin of the calyx annular with obsolete teeth. Petals 5 or 6, val- 
vular. Stamens 5 or 6; anthers ovate or oblong. Epigynous disk 
convex, in male flowers concave; styles usually 5 or 6,either free 
or united at base into a column, or obsolete. Ovary 5- or more- 
celled; cells l-ovuled. Fruit drupaceous, ovoid or subglobose, 5- or 
6-lobed in the dried state, 5- or 6-celled; cells 1-seeded. Seeds 
laterally compressed ; albumen not ruminated.—Tall shrubs or trees. 
aves compound, digitate, on long petioles, crowded near the ends of 
the branches; petioles long, dilated and clasping at the base ; stipules 
adnate inside the petioles. Umbelluled racemes crowded in axils of 
leaves at ends of branches; pedicels continuous with the flowers; 
bracts membranous, caducous.—Astropanax, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1865, 
176; Sciadopanaw, Seem. in Rev. Heder. 49. 
A rather large genus, found also in Tropical Asia and in Australia, &c. 
Leaflets more or less serrate ; cordate at the base. 
Styles distinct from the base. Petioles not 6in. long . . . 1. H. abyssiniewm. 
Style lobed at the apex. Petioles nearly 12in. long. . . . 2. H. elatum. 
aflets entire, not or scarcely cordate at the base. 
Styles radiating in fruit and raised on a column about as long as 
themselves. Flowers pedicelled. 
Small tree. Umbellules 8—12-flowered on pedicels 3-2 in. long 3. H. Barter’. 
Tree, _ Umbellules 4—5-flowered, on pedicels about fin. long 4. H. Baikiei. 
Climbing shrub. Umbellules about 10-flowered, on shorter 
_, pedicels 2 2 2... 2... ee ee 5 Eh scandens. 
tigmas scarcely raised above the wide convex disk. Flower 
capitulate 2... . 6. H. Manni. 
1. abyssinicum, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 942. Glabrous. 
Branches ‘-oody, 4-4 in. thick close to the extremities, covered with 
an irregul: -aneular bark, transversely seamed. Petioles 4—5 in. long, 
crowded near the ends of the branches, faintly sulcate, terete; stalks 
of the leaflets 1-2 in. long; leaflets 7, 2-4 in. long, oval-ovate, 
rounded at the base, much acuminate or caudate at the apex, crenate- 
serrate, thinly coriaceous. Inflorescence 4-9 in. long; primary pedi- 
cels 3-13 in. long, patent; secondary 4-4 in. long. Petals calyp- 
trate. Flowers polygamous. Bracts pubescent ; bracteoles lanceolate. 
Styles 3 and short in male flower, 5 or 6 in female flower, recurved in 
fruit, distinct from the base. Fruit 1-1 in. long.—Aralia abyssinica, 
Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 3836. Sciodaphyllum abyssinicum, 
Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ii, 537, Miq. Ann. Lugd. Bat. i. 26. Astropanax 
abyssinicum, Seem. Journ. Bot. 1865, 177. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
