Tas. 4804. 
HEDERA GLOMERULATA. 
Glomerulated Ivy. 
Nat. Ord. ARALIACEH.—PENTANDRIA MoONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo supero, brevissimo, integro 
vel 5-dentato. Corolle petala 5-10, disci epigyni margini inserta, libera, ex- =. 
pansa. Stamina 5-10, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna v. opposita ; jilamenta 
brevia; anthere incumbentes, biloculares. Ovarium inferum, 5-10-loculare. 
Ovula in loculis solitaria, pendula. Séyli 5-10, erecti v. conniventes, aut in 
unicum coheerentes ; stigmata simplicia. Bacca calycis limbo stylisque coronata, 
quinque-decemlocularis, loculis membranaceis monospermis. Semina inversa. 
Embryo in apice albuminis carnosi, endopleure processubus rugosi brevis, ortho- i 
tropus, radicula supera.—Frutices scandentes vel erectt, interdum arborescentes, 
inter tropicos totius orbis magno numero, parce in hemisphere borealis temperatis 
crescentes, foliis alternis, nunc simplicibus, integris v. lobatis, nunc compositis, 
digitatis vel rarissime pinnatis, petiolis basi vaginantibus, floribus capitatis, capi- 
tulis racemoso-paniculatis. . 
HEDERA glomerulata ; caule arboreo aculeato, foliis digitatis, foliolis subseptenis 
petiolulatis oblongis acuminatis serratis glabriusculis, panicula terminali 
longissima pendula, rachibus aculeatis, floribus (polygamis?) in capitula 
glomeratis. pone 
Hepera glomerulata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 265. 
ARaia (Gynapteina) glomerulata. Blume, Bijdr. p. 871. 
The limits of the genera Hedera, Arala, Panaz, Sciodaphyl- 
lum, and other genera of Araliacee, are very ill-defined, and 
differently understood by different botanists. That of Hedera, 
as above given from Endlicher, is intended to include several 
Aralie of Linnzeus and other authors, especially the section 
“ Gynapteina of Blume,” distinguished by having the styles 
united into one. Divided as botanists may be on the subject 
of the genus of the present plant, the species is a very remark- 
able one, and has attracted much attention in the stoves of the 
Royal Garden of Kew, where its singularly long pendent racemes 
(four to five feet long) are annually produced in April and May. 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1854, 
