Tas. 6093. 
PAN AX SAMBUCIFOLIUS. 
Native of New South Wales and Victoria. 
Nat. Ord. ArALiActa.—Series Panace x. 
Genus Panax, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 938). 
Panax sambucifolius ; glaberrimus, foliis pinnatis 2-pinnatisque, foliolis 
polymorphis sessilibus petiolulatisve ellipticis v. lanceolatis integerrimis _ 
dentatis lobulatis v. pinnatifidis subtus glaucis, rachi interdum dilatata 
ad nodos articulata, umbellis terminalibus et axillaribus corymbosis 
paniculatis v. racemosis, calycis limbo brevissimo sinuato 4-5-dentato, 
fructu baccato globoso aquoso translucido, pyrenis plano-convexis dorso 
obtuse costatis. 
Panax sambucifolius, Sieb. in DC. Prog: vol. iii. p. 255; Benth. Fl. Austral , 
vol. iii. p. 382. 
P. angustifolius e P. dendroides, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict., 
vol. i. p. 42; Plant. Vict., t. 28. 
Notuoranax sambucifolius, Seem. Flor. Viti., p- 115. 
The singular beauty of-the translucent berries which per- 
sist for a long time on the plant, recommend the latter for 
cultivation. These resemble white currants in form and 
transparency, but have a faint blue tinge, and each is 
capped by a minute black calyx-limb, and two thread-like 
diverging or recurved styles. It is a native of extra-tropical 
Eastern Australia, extending from north of the New South 
Colony to Victoria; and a very similar plant (of which I 
have seen the leaves only) has been sent from Tasmania. Like 
so many 4raliacee, the Ivy notably, the leaf varies most 
extraordinarily, being simply or doubly pinnate, and the 
leaflets being quite entire, toothed, lobed, or pinnatifid, and 
the petiole flat or dilated between the leaflets. The flowers 
are small and insignificant ; they appear in spring, and the 
beautiful berries ripen in September. 
Panawx sambucifolius was introduced into Kew from the 
Melbourne Botanic Garden by Baron Mueller, and flowered 
for the first time in 1873. 
APRIL Ist, 1874. 
