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-: f^^f^^^ H l>y If m., elliptic, shortly a<;uminate, little narrowed at the base, 

 glabrous, entire, nerves not very prominent; petiolules 0-^ in. Panicle often 12-1 S 

 in., branches 4-8 in.; umbels dense subeapitate in flower; pedicels in fruit elongating 



to i m, and more. Fruit ^ by ^ in. and ^ in. thick, ultimately glabrous and often 

 glaucous. 



. Var. 1. tT/pica; leaflets elliptic shortly acuminate, base slightly narrowed. 



Var. 2. subcordata; leaflets ovate shortly acuminate, base rounded or even 

 cordate. 



^ Vab. 3. attenuafa.) leaflets 4^ by 1^ in., attenuate acuminate, much narrowed at 

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13. BRASSAXOPSXS, Laie. ^ Planch. 



' Large struts or trees^ glabrous or tomentose, armed or not. Leaves digitate 

 or palmate or angled; stipules connate within the petiole, not prominent. 

 Umbels in large compound panieleS; young parts at least stellately tomentose j 

 Dracts not large, often persistent ; pedicels rising from a dense cluster of per- 

 sistent bracteoles, not jointed under the flower; flowers often nolygamouB. 

 Calj/x 5"toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-cellea; styles 2, 

 united, long or short. Finiit broadly globose or turbinate, 2- ox by abortion 

 1-seeded. Seed not compressed; albumen ruminated. — Distrib. Species 10, 

 from Nipal to Java. 





Leaves undivided. 



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• 1. B. simpllolfolla, C. B, Clarice '^ upper leaves simple lanceolate 

 sen^ate, adult glabrous. 



> Mishmee; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2699). 

 ^ -Bm?2c^/tf^^ prickly, glabrouij or with a little hard close tomentum. Leaves near 

 the panicle alone seen (the lower may be divided) 9 by 3|- in., acute, subacute at the 

 base, sharply serrated, membranous, nerves much elevated; petiole l|in.; stipules 

 not prominent. Young panicle 5 in., nearly glabrous, branches slightly compound ; 

 bracts i in., lanceolate; pedicels } in. with scattered stellate hairs, rising from a 

 dense tuft of braeteoles. — Marked by Seemann as new genus, with a note that the 

 petals are imbricate. Thev are. however, valvate, and it is clearly a Brassaimsie. 



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__ Balnla, Seem. Rev. ffeder. 18^ J7ari7y ; ieavea dmded less than 

 talf-way down into triangular cuspidate segments/ fruit broadlv orbicular. 

 Brassaiopsis confluens, /Se^w. JRev. Bed. 18 (as to the fruit). Hedera Hainla, 

 Sam. in Dan Prodr, 187; DC. Prodr. iv. 253. Panax curcifolia, Griff. Itin. 

 ^^ote3, 146.— Araliad sp. 28, Herb. Ind. Or. H:f. ^ T. 



". Temperate Himai-Ata, alt. zmO-mOQ ft., from Nipal to Bhotan; Griffith (Kew 

 I>istrib. No. 2fi68); J". B. H\ C. B. Clarke. 



A small tree, the ends of the branches prickly, young parts stellately tomentose. 

 Leaves 4-9 in. diairi., truncate or cordate at the base, subspi nose-toothed, finally 

 glabrous above and nearly so beneath the hispidulous or stellate hairs distantly 

 scattered. Bracts to the panicle-branches ovate, short, densely stellate-tomentose, 

 persistent. Buds densely stellate-tomentose. Pedicels i-| in., rising from a dense 

 cluster of braeteoles \ in. oblong and very tomentose. truit | by \ in., globose, sub- 

 Qidymous. ^tyle \ in. on the fruit. . 





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Beiur 21. Fl. Ind. ii. 74. Araliops 



an^amanica, JCwrc in Andaman Bepr^App. B. 9. ' Hedera polyacantha 



Bar. t. 190.— Araliad sp. 33, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 



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