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EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



' Helwingia populifolia, Spr< 

 l)elong to the genus. 



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__ Glabrous trees or large sk-ubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets coriaceous entire. 



UmVeU panicled (in Indian species) j bmcts ^ in., lanceolate or 0; pedicela 

 jointed under the flower. Cahjx-margin truncate or toothed. Petals 5-4 (in 



Indian^species), valvate. Omtry 5-4-celled (in Indian species)_, summit flat; 

 styles 6-4, distinct. Fruit ellipsoid or globose, prominently ribbed. Seed 

 conapressed ; albumen uniform.— Distrib. Species 8 ; E. African Islajids, S. 

 India, and Malaya. .. 



''' J-^3P. acuminata, Seeyn. Mev. Heder. 56; leaflets 5-13 oblong much 

 acuminate, panicle narrowly oblong simple, branches short ending in an im- 

 perfect umbel. Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 213, excl syn. Iledera acuminate, Wight 

 ii?. t. 1062 ; Thwaites Enum, 131, excL syn. Eupteron acuminatum, Mia, FL 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 762. 



_^ Deccan Mts., alt. 5000 ft.; Nilghiris; Wight. AHAMALLAtd and Tixxevkllv 

 Ghats; Beddome, Ceylon, Adams Peak, alt. 4000-5000 ft. ; Thwaites. 

 '• " A tree. Leaflets 5 by 1| in., attenuated at both ends, margin thickened, petiole 

 i in. Panicle 8-10 by 1-3 m., branches stout, umbel at the end of each subcapitate* 

 the pedicels not rising from the same point and being sometimes again dirided so 

 that the panicle may l)e called compound, but the umbels altogether are not above 

 1 in. diam. ; bracts caducous. Ovary truncate, ellipsoid, soon becoming distinctly 

 ''bbed. Ripe fruit not seen. [The Andaman leaves distributed by Mr. Kurz as Eu- 

 Pjeronsp.iiovJ Andaman Rep, SuppLB. appear to he Arthrophyllum diversi* 

 folium, Bhcme.] 



' 2.^ P. pinnat a J For St. Char. Gen. p. 64, t. 32 j leaflets orbicular subentire 

 <^T* with small remote teeth base cordate. DC. Piodr. iv. 2oI '^ Seem. Rev. 

 ^eder. 56. Panax? Hevneanum, Wall. Cat. 4927; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 386. 

 Nothopanax tricochleatiun, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. SuppL 340. Aralia latifolia, 

 ^r^ A. P^'odr. 376. . ^ 



India? Wight ^o. 1213.— Distrib. Malaya, Polynesia. 



Thiii plant is noticed here because taken up in W. ^ A. Prodr. and because Dr. 

 Seetoan supposed it might be a new genus. Wight^ Herbarium specimen is without 

 locality, there is therefore small probability that the plant is Indian. 



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Large shrubs or trees, glabrous or tomentose^ ^ _ , _ 



*ate rarely compound-digitate or 1-folioIate; leaflets conaceous, entire or 

 i^motely toothed or lobed, never closelj serrate nor ciliate, those near the 

 panicle usually entire ; stipules often connate within the petiole and prominent. 

 ^inbeh (rarely capitate) panicled or in compound racemes ; bracts woolly, de- 

 ciduous or pereistent ; pedicels not jointed under the flower ; bracteoles few or 

 % or rarely densely tufted. Cdyx-margin toothed or truncate. Petah 5-6 or 

 ^any, valvate. Stamens as many as the petals. Omru cells aa many as the 

 petals, disc smaU or large ; styles smaU, separate or combined m a short comc&i 

 harrow eyHudric column. -Fnnt subglobose, 5-6-angIed. Seeds compressed ; 

 *ioumen uniform.— Distkib. Species 50, in the tropics of the old world. 



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