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1. B. impressum, C B. Clarke ; leaflets (from leaves near the panicle) 

 lanceolate nearly entire nerves impressed al)Ove stellately woolly beneath, petals 

 sparingly stellate-woolly. Agalma tomentosum, Seem, Rev. Heder, 25. He- 

 dera tomentosa, -Fam. in Don Prodr. 187] Wall. Cat.4S)22) DC. Prodr.'vr.^ 

 264. Panax tomentosum, DC Prodr. iv. 254.— Araliad sp. Jl3, Herb. Ind On 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 6000-11,000 ft.; from KuMAONto Bkotan, frequent, f 

 A tree, 60 ft. Leafiets often 10 by 2 J in., rugose above from the impressed 

 nerves, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate ; petiolules rarely more than 1 jn.;^ 

 leaflets from young trees often distantly lobed or serrate. Panicle 12-15 m,, stel- 

 late-tomentose ; bracts very shortly ovate, somewhat persistent; pedicels i- 4 '°*7" 

 Seeman has applied the name H. tomentosum to a different Malayan plant : hence the 

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2. H. hypoleucum, Kurz Fo7\ FL i. 539 ; leaflets with scattered lax 

 stellate wool or glaucous beneath glabrous and not rugose above, petals coveted 

 with dense stellate wool. — Araliad sp. 15, Hei^h. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ T, ^. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft. frequent; Griffith, H. /. ^" T., C. B. Clarke. 



Mabtaban, alt. 6000 ft.; Kurz. * ■ . 



- A small branched tree. Leaflets 4-8 by 1^-3 J in., those even from leaves next 



the panicle polymorphous, oblong or ovate, acute, quite entire or sennilate or lobed 



irr^larly piouatifid, the stellate wool beneath deciduous, leaving a glaucous surfa< 



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, -- Closely allied to the preceding. From Mr. Kurz's description it would seem 

 lat the rarer Khasian form with perfectly glabrous glaucous leaves, is the only 

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S. H. elatum, C. B. Clarke-, leaflets near the panicle nearly entire 

 oWong lanceolate gla^brous not rugose above, petals glabrous or sparingly stel- 

 late woolly. Hedera elata, Ham. in Dm Prodr. 187 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 264 J 

 Wall. Cat. 4914. Agalma elatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 26.— Araliad sp. 6, Herb. 

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KuMAON to Bhotan, alt. 5000-7000 ft., not uncommon ; Wallich, &c. / 

 A tree 30-40 ft. Leaflets 4-7 .by 1-2^ in., broadest below the middle, in young 

 trees but sparingly toothed or lobed; petiolules often 1-2 in. Panicle 12-18 in-r 

 lower branches usually compound; bracts very short, ovate, auriculate; pedicels 

 i-| in., glal)rous pubescent or stellately woolly ; buds usually glabrous. 



Vak. Grifflthii ; pedicels very woolly, young petals more pubescent. Heptapleu- 

 rum glaucum, Kurz For. FL i. 538. Agalma Griffithii. Seem. Rev. Hedsr.2d' 

 Bhotan ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2698 and E. I. C. No. 2064). Burma; Marta- 

 ban, alt. 5000-7000 ft. ; Kurz ; Moolee Mt., Parish, 



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 i ,i:A small tree, leaflets 6 by 2 in., teoadest'^above the middle, the tertiary nerve 

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