Tas. 7402. 
HEPTAPLEURUM venutosouy, var. erythrostachys. 
< Native of tropical Asia. 
Nat. Ord. ARALIACES. 
Genus Heprartevrum, Gertn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 942.) 
HEpPTaPLEURUM venulosum; arbor parva erecta v. frutex subscandens, ramulis 
robustis, foliis digitatis longe petiolatis, foliolis 7-9 petiolulatis elliptico-v. 
ovato-oblongis obtusis acutis v. obtuse subcaudato-acuminatis glaberrimis, 
basi cuneatis rotundatisve, supra lete viridibus nervulis reticulatis promi- 
nulis, stipulis ima basi petioli adnatis, panicule ample pedunculo gracili 
v. robusto brevi v. elongato, ramis verticillatis glabris puberulisve, 
capitulis florum breviter v. longius pedunculatis, floribus 4—5-meris 
brevissime v. longius pedicellatis subpolygamis calycis patellefsrmis 
limbo obscure dentato, petalis calyptratim cohwrentibus obtusis, stami- 
nibus 4-5, ovario disco tumido coronato, stylo depresso obscure 4—5-lobo, 
baccis parvis ovoideis flavis 4-5-locularibus. 
H. venulosum, Seem. in Journ. Bot. iii. (1865), 80. Brand. For. Fl. N. W. 
& Centr. Ind. p. 249. Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 538. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 729. Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 384. Beddome 
Forester’s Man. 8. India, p. exxii, 
H. ellipticum, Seem. J. ¢, 
Paratroria.venulosa, Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Penins, Ind. Or. p. 877. 
Wight Illustr, Pl, Ind, Or, vol. ii. p. 62, t.118. F. Muell. Fragmenta, 
vol, iv. p. 121. 
P. elliptica v. macrantha, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. p. 756. 
HepERA macrophylla, terebinthacea et venosa, Wall. Oat. n.n. 4918, 4920 
partim, 4923. 
Sciaporuyiivum ellipticum, Blume Bijdr. p. 878. DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 260. 
Arata digitata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 22; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 107. 
A. Moorei, F. Mueld. 1. ¢. vol. ii. p. 108. 
Unsata, Rheede Hort. Malab, vol. vii. t. 28. 
Var. erythrostachys, panicule robuste ramis ramulis petalisque rubellis 
pedunculis pedicellisque brevibus. 
Under the name of Heptapleurum venulosum, one or 
more large species of the genus, ranges from Kumaon, in 
the subtropical Western Himalaya, eastwards throughout 
the range, to Burma, and southwards in moist forests to 
Malabar, the Circars, and Singapore; thence extending 
Marcn Ist, 1895, 
