568 ARALIACE& (Sond.) [Cussonia. 
OrpDER LXVIII. ARALIACEZ, Juss. 
(By W. Sonper.) 
Flowers perfect or unisexual, mostly umbellate. Calyx-tube adnate 
to the ovary ; limb entire or toothed. Petals 5-16, alternate with the 
teeth of the calyx, epigynous, valvate in sstivation. Stamens as many, 
rarely twice as many as the petals, inserted on the outside of a fleshy, 
epigynous disc ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary inferior, of two or several 
eells ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; styles or stigmas as many as the 
cells of the ovary. Fruit fleshy or nearly dry, 2—16-celled, crowned 
by the limb of the calyx ; endocarp crustaceous. Albumen copious, 
horny, with a minute, basal embryo. 
Trees and shrubs, more rarely herbaceous plants, natives chiefly of the warmer 
zones. Leaves alternate, simple or compound, digitate, pedate, or pinnate. Best 
— from Umbelliferce by the fleshy fruit. There is but one 8. African genus of 
the Order, 
Shrubs or trees. Stem thick and somewhat succulent. Leayes long-petiolate, 
approximate, glabrous, glossy, palmate or digitate, with 5-9 one-nerved, entire or 
lobed leaflets. Flowers small. Name in honour of Peter Cusson, once professor of 
botany in the university of Montpellier. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Leaves palmato-partite .. ... tts ee see eee eee (1) Natalensis, 
Leaves peltato-digitate : 
Flowers in simple spikes, Leafi, petiolulate. 
Leaflets lanceolate ; flowers sessile nee eee Sart tee wees 4) 
Leaflets obverse lanceolate ; flowers pedicellate vs see (3) Kraussii. 
Flowers in panicled spikes ; leaflets shortly petiolulate... ... (4) paniculatum. 
Flowers in simple racemes ; leaflets sessile ste eee eee aay (SP OeURiflora, 
Flowers umbellate ... |. ie (6) umbellifera, 
z; C. Natalensis (Sond.) ; leaves palmato-partite, lobes lanceolate- 
acuminate, serrate; spikes elongate 3 thachis from the base laxly beset 
with sessile or subsessile flowers ; calyx obsoletely 5-6-toothed ; ovary 
roundish ; styles two, spreading, 
road, with revolute, shortly-serrated margins, attenuated in a long 
apex, somewhat narrowed at the entire base. 4 = 
equal or a little smaller, Spikes not » much reticulated; the lower lobes 
2. C. spicata (Thunb.! Noy. Act, Ups. 3, 212, t. 13); leaves pelta 
Phe 4 » t. 13); leaves to- 
digitate; leaflets (about 7) inceolate, petiolulate, pie serrate or 
toothed from the middle, entire or trifid 3 Spikes oblong, cylindrical, 
