Brassaio^sis.'] lxxi. araliacb^. (C. B. Clarke). 737 



Panicle very larc^e and compound, much more glabrous than in the allied species- 

 Dracts to the branches short, ovate, persistent; pedicels ^ in., very numerous, bracte- 



oies at their base minute, louiig calyx-tube sparingly stellate-tomentose, limb 

 <pstmctly toothed. Disc of the young fruit much elevated; style scarcely ^ in. 



^ruU i in. diam., globose. 



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Leaves digitate. 



8. B. speciosa, Dene, 8c Planch, in Revue IToH, 18o4/ 106 ; petioliiles 

 long, leaflets lanceolate or elliptic rounded or attenuate at the bane entire 

 ^enulate or lightly subserrate, adult glabrous or nearly so beneath. Seem. Rev. 

 neder, 19. B. floribunda, Seem, Rev, Heeler. 19. Hedera floribunda, Wall 

 <^t. 4912 ; G, Don Gm, Si/st. iii. 394. H. glomerulata, DC. Prodr. iv. 265; 

 ^ook. Rot. Mag. t. 4804: Regd in Gartenjl, 1803, t. 411. Aralia glome- 

 rulata, Blume Bijd. 872. Macropanax glomerulatum, Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. \, 

 pt. 1. 764— Araliad sp. 9, 10, and 11, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. <§- T. 



From NipAL and Assam to' Chittagong ; alt. 0-5000 ft., frequent.— Distkib. 

 Java. 



A small tree; upper part of the branches (and sometimes the panicle also) 

 prickly ; innovations stellately tomentose often rusty reddish brown. Leaflets 4-S by 

 1-3 in., when young often -with scattered stellate hairs above and some clustered 

 stelJate wool beneath, acuminate, herbaceous, reticulations moderately conspicuous ; 

 petiolules usually more than 1 in., summit of the petiole without dense clustered 

 l>ristles. Panicle large, usually a foot long or more; bracts at the base of the 

 branches oblong or lanceolate, persistent; pedicels | in. rising from a dense cluster 

 of rusty stellntely hairy persistent bracteole^ \ in. Fruit ^ by -^ in., didymo-globose, 

 ^ 1-seeded and subglobose. — There are many forms of this plant, but these being 

 ^^0. it is not easy to establish species upon them. In the young fruit the disc is 

 sometimes very elevated, and the style is long or short, as mentioned by Dene. & 

 l^lanchon : the calyx-tube of the young fruit is shortly hemisphuric, or more often 

 long and obconie. These differences appear to depend on the stage oi ripening at 

 yhich the fruit is gathered. 



- Var. 1, typica\ leaflets 6 J by 2 in. oblong acuminato entire, base not rounded 

 ander surface of the adult glabrous. Wall, Cat. 4912. 



Var, 2. subovata; leaflets 7 by 4^ in. ovate or elliptic shortly suddenly acumi- 

 '^ate entire or very nearly so base rounded adult glabrous beneath.— Sikkim, 



. Var. 3. kirfa; leaflets 5 by 1^- in. lanceolate narrowed to both ends entire mid- 

 'ih beneath when 3-oung with needle-like spreading hairs (unlike inose of any other 

 P^aut in the order).— The leaflets are detached from the panicle, but exc^^pt as to the 

 ^airs they appear to belong to the species. Cachar, R. L. Keeitan. 



Vau. 4. rufo-steUata; leaflets oblong-lanceolate from a rounded base somewhat 

 closely dentieiilatc-serrate in nearly their whole extent with scattered rusty-stcIJate 

 h»i^ above, when young rusty villose pubescent beneath, panicle densely rufous- 

 stellate tomentose.— Chiefly from low leA^els in Cachar, Khasia, and Chittagong. 

 ■ Var. 5. serraia; leaflets 7 by 2^ in. elliptic-lanceolate dent^ite-serrate base sub- 

 **^iite, p^niclo very sparingly stellate-woolly. Darjeeling, Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 



, 9. S. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke; petiolules distinct or long, leaflets very 

 ^rge oblong narrowed at each end serrate, mature more or less stellate-woolly 

 ^neath.— Araliad sp. 12, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. 



SiKuiM. alt. 2000-5000 ft.; Yoksun, J. D. H. Khasia Mts.. alt. 4000 ft.; 

 ^unklow, H. f. ^- T. ■ ' . ' ' 



^ A small prictJy tree. Leaflets attaining 18 by 8 in., somewhat leathery, nerves 

 »oove .suhimprossed ; petiolules i- 2 in. Tanicle 2 ft., the branches more than a foot 

 ^th broad oblong persistent bracts at their base, the young parts densely white 



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