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NOTHOPANAX COCHLEATUM (Lam.) Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1* (1855) 766; 
Safford 333. 
Aralia cochleata Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 224. 
Introduced and cultivated, fide Safford; common in cultivation in the 
Indo-Malayan region generally. 
NOTHOPANAX GUILFOYLEI (Cogn. & March.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 242. 
Aralia guilfoylei Cogn. & March, Pl. Ornem. 2 (1874) t. 58; Safford 186. 
Cultivated for its variegated foliage, fide Safford; cultivated in most 
warm countries, where native uncertain, probably Polynesia. 
UMBELLIFEREAE 
CENTELLA Linnaeus 
CENTELLA ASIATICA (Linn.) Urban in Mart. Fl. Bras. 11° (1879) 287; 
Safford 221. 
Hydrocotyle asiatica Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 284. 
Mrs. Clemens s. n., G. E. S. 46. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
FOENICULUM Tournefort 
FOENICULUM VULGARE Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 105, t. 98, f. 5. 
Foeniculum foeniculum Karst. Deutsch. Fl. ( 1880-83) 837; Safford 277. 
Often cultivated by the natives, fide Safford; cultivated in all warm 
countries. 
Ordinary parsley (Apium petroselinum Linn., Petroselinum petroselinum 
Karst.; Safford 349) is occasionally cultivated, but does not thrive, fide 
Safford. 
MYRSINACEAE 
DISCOCALYX Mez 
DISCOCALYX MEGACARPA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, glaber, ramulis teretibus, crassis; foliis 
oblongo-oblanceolatis, chartaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acumina- 
tis, basi longe angustatis, cuneatis, margine integris, utrinque 
reticulatis; paniculis tenuibus, usque ad 10 cm longis, angustis, 
in ramis brevibus specialibus dispositis; floribus 5-meris, 5 mm 
diametro, petalis sepalisque valde glandulosis; fructibus sub- 
globosis, circiter 1 cm diametro, in siccitate striatis. 
An erect glabrous shrub, apparently dioecious. Branches and 
branchlets terete, rather stout, marked with large petiolar scars, 
somewhat brownish. Leaves alternate, chartaceous, oblong- 
oblanceolate, entire, 15 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 5.5 em wide, 
narrowed above to the somewhat acuminate apex, and gradually 
narrowed from about the middle to the cuneate base, the lamina 
merging gradually with the petiole, both surfaces somewhat 
reticulate, shining when dry, the lower a little paler than the 
