738 Lxxi. ARALUCE^. (C. B, Clarke.) [Brassaiofsis. 



stellate-woolly ; pedicels ^-| in., stout, rising from numerous persistent bracteoles 

 f in., less hairy than those'of B. floribtinda. Young fruit much as in B.floribunda; 

 calyx-tube campanulate or obconic; disc prominently rayed, not greatly elevated; 

 style ^ in. — Possibly a large form of B. flmnbunda. • * 



10, 8. aculeata. Seem. Rev. Ileder. 19 ; leaflets serrate attenuate at 

 "base subsessile and often enveloped densely by bristles -watb stellate hairs on 

 both surfaces when adult. Iledera aculeata, Don Prodr. 187 ; DC. Prodr, iv. 

 264. n. ffisculifolia, Wall Cat. 4913. Agalma sesculifolium, Seem. Rev. 

 Hedei'. 25. 



Kl'MAon; T. Thomson. Nipal; Wallich. Khasia Mts., alt. 4000 ft.. C. B. 

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A small prickly tree. Leaflets by 2f in., narrowly laneeolate-obovate, acumi- 

 nate, herbaceous, soft in texture, rusty stellate-tomentose, apex of the petiole very 

 hispid ; in one example of Dr. Thomson's the digitate leaf is sometimes replaced by a 

 single entire leaf cordate at base. Panicle large, compound, greatly resembling that 

 of B.floribunda, young ptirts stellate rusty-woolly; bracts at the base of the branches 

 ovate, short, persistent ; pedicels ^-| in., springing from a dense cluster of lanceolate 

 hairy persistent bracteoles f in. Fruit ^ in. long and broad, globose, subdidymous; 

 disc on the ripe fruit flat ; style |-^ in.— Wallich's Hedera (ssculifolia, in the 1^^°^^° 

 Society's herbarium, and those marked Agalma (ssculifolium in the British Museum 

 by Seemann, are all 2-ovuled, and identical with Brassaiopsis aculeata. 



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14. MACaOPANAX, Miq. 



Unarmed small trees. Leaves digitate, 3-5-foliolate, leaflets f^^.^^®^^ 

 serrate, in the Indian species glabrous; stipules shortly connate within the 

 petiole or 0. Panicles large, branched; bracts small, deciduous; pedicels 

 jointed under the flowers; flowers umbelled, polygamous. Calyx-teeth ^' 

 Petals 5, Talvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled ; styles united. Fi-uit o^oid or 

 subglobose or somewhat elongated upwards, striated or ribbed but hardly an- 



gular, oceans uursH uy eompresseu ; aiDum 



TRIB. Species 2, Nipal to Java. 



1. m. oreophilum, Miq 



1. BI. oreophilum, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 764; leaflets um^ 

 denticulate serrate or crenulate, panicle-branches spreading stellately rus^ 

 tomentose. Seem. Rev. Beder. 20; Kurz For. FL i. 541. M. A^^^^^'^^J' 

 Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 764. Panax serratum, Wall. Cat. 4915 ; D 6 . iW- 

 IV. 253. Aralia disperma, Blume Bijd. 872. Hedera disperma, DC. Fi'oai. 

 265.— Araliad sp. 8, Herh. Ind. Or. H. f.^T. 



From Nipal and Assam to Tenasserim, alt. 500-7000 ft., frequent— Distki^- 

 Malaya. j 



Attains 30 ft. Leaflets 5 by U in., lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes longer a^^ 

 very narrow, sometimes almost elliptic, base narrowed or rounded ; P^^'?"^jg i jn.,' 

 3n. Panicle 1 ft., compound; bracts usually deciduous, inconspicuous ; P^^icei ?,_ 



stout, more or less stellate-hairy, the bracteoles few or deciduoufi. ^^ J^^ top 

 ovoid, sometimes elongated upwards; disc large, conical, often wider than 



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2. M. undulatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 20 ; leaflets entire or very near/ 

 80, panicle-branclies ascending glabrous. Hedera undulata, Wall 

 G. Bon Oen. Syst. iii. 894.— Araliad sp. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. K.f.^ 



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:. oiKKiM, iiHOTAN, AssAM and Khasia, alt. 600-5000 ft., common. -.»^^*r ^liptjcj- 

 ^^^LJ^ small tree. Leaflets 3-4 by U in., lanceolate, acuminate, rareiy 



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