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Shrubs or small trees, glabrous (or in non-Indian species tomentose). Leaves 

 palmate or digitate (in Indian species). Umbels panicled or subsolitaryj, 

 pedicels not jointed under the flower. Flowei's polygamous or hermaphrodite* 

 Calyx-teeth §, small. Petals 5-4, valvate. Stamens 5-4. Ovary 2- (rarely 

 3-4^) celled ; styles 2 at the apex of a conical disc, distinct or combined at the 

 base. Fruit laterally subcompressed or subglobose. Albumen uniform. 

 DiSTRLB. Species 6; Japan to Malaya, and E, Bengal. ^, :'*l 



1. A. aculeatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 86 ; glabrous, prickly, leaves digi- 

 tate, leaflets 3-5 elliptic attenuate at base toothed, umbels m small panicles or 

 solitary, fruit compressed. A. sepium, Seem. Rev. Heder. 86. Panax acule- 

 atum, Ait. Hort. Ke%o, v. 482; Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 634; Wall. Cat. 4926; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 252. P. Loureu-ianum , DC. I.e. Plectronia chinensis. Lour. Fl. 

 Cochinch. 162. Xanthoxylon trifoliatum, Linn. S^. PI. 1455.— Araliad sp. o, 

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MisHMEE ; Gnffith (Kew Distrib, No. 2665). Khasia Mts., alt. 4000 ft., frequent. 

 — ^DiSTKiB. China, Japan. .-''^ 



A shrub or small tree; branches angular; spines short, broad-based, stout,^ oftea 

 deflexed. Leaves of 3-5 leaflets ; petiole 1-2 in., often bearing one or more prickles ; 

 leaflets 2 by f-1 in., subacute, denticulate or serrate, sometimes with a few stitt 

 bristles on the nerves beneath; petiolules usually distinct. ^-^ in.^ Umbels often 

 solitary; pedicels numerous, |-1 in. Fruit i in. long and broad; styles persistent, 

 recurved, united for half their length.— Seemann has marked some of the Kew 

 examples A. sepium, others A. aculeatum, hetween which no difference can be dis- 

 coyered, and his diagnosis of A. sepium applies to the examples he has marked A. 

 acuUatum-^ It is very doubtful whether Pana^ spinosum, Linn. f. {Acanthopanax, 

 Miq.), specifically differs : the leaflets in this seem quite sessile and the prickles are 

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Glabrous under-shrubs. Leaves petioled, simple, lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, bristle-serrate ; stipules a tuft of linear bristles seen only at the ^ase ot 

 the young petioles. Umbels unisexual, simple, verv small, sessile about tne 

 middle of the bax:k of the leaf, or on phyllodes ; females 1-4-flowered; males 

 with more flowers ; bracts 0, pedicels not jointed under the flower. Calyx- 

 margin obsolete. Petals 3-5, valvate. Stamens 3-5. Ovary 3-4-celled ; styles 

 0-4, combined at base, rising from a conical disc. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid^ 

 usually 2-3-celled ; carpels rounded on the back. Seed compressed ; albumen 

 uiuform.— Distrib. Species 2, an Indian and a Japanese. 



1. H. hlmalalca, Hk. /. ^- T. ms. ; leaves lanceolate, fruit i i" 

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SiKKiM, alt. 7000-9000 ft., frequent. East Himalaya; (rn/^^A. Khasta Mts 

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Stem woody, branched. Leaves 3 by 1 in., tapering at both ends ; petiole i^t^' 

 Phyllodes when present spathulate- oblong, sessile, 1^ in., entire below ^^istle-seiw^ 

 near the apex, midrib strong, the wing membranous imperfectly herbaceous. ^^^, 

 ; i^ in. diam., greenish. Fruit 1-3 on the leaf; pedicels hardly ^ in. JS^'^rf^ parrowi^^ 

 y.oblong, compressed, more than twice as long as broad.— This hardly differs iro^ * 

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