76 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Panax. 
3. P. fragrans. R. 
Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves supra-decompound ; leaf- 
‘lets obovate oblong, acuminate sub-entire, smooth. Pa- 
nicles terminal. | 
Gootee-soona is the vernacular name of it in Silhet, 
where it grows to be a middling sized tree. Its immense 
panicles of fragrant blossoms appear in October and 
November, and the seed ripens in February and March. 
Leaves alternate,approximate, oppositely supra-decom- 
pound, from two to four feet long. Leaflets ovate-oblong, 
entire, except in young plants, then remotely and very 
sharply serrulate, all rather obtusely acuminate, and 
smooth ; from two to six inches long, and about half that 
in breadth. Petioles perfectly round, polished ; base 
sheathing, and swelled. Panicles terminal, immensely © 
jarge, and composed of numerous compound branches 
of short peduncled, globular umbellets of small fragrant 
flowers, embraced by a minute, ferruginous mealy invo- 
lucre. Calyx superior, five-toothed. Petals five, spread- 
ing, oblong-lanceolate, a ridge down the middle on the 
inside. Filaments five, alternate with, and longer than 
the petals. Anthers ovate. Germ inferior, two-celled, 
with the ovulain each attached from its upper end to the 
partition. Styles two, short, woolly. Stigma simple. 
Berries two-lobed, a little flattened, two-celled, size of 
two small peas joined. Seed solitary, attached as in 
the germ. Perisperm conform to the seed. Embryo 
minute, lodged almost transversely in the apex of the 
perisperm, with the point of the radicles a little elevated 
bstpisaie: the umbilicus. 
4, P. feutticantii Willd. 4. 1127. 
Shrubby. Leaves supra-decompound ; leaflets lanceo- 
Jate, acutely serrate, often laciniate, sates — 
Jar, forming terminal panicles. hia 
Scutellaria tertia. ‘Rumph: ‘amb, vol. 4, t. 33. 
