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of Ceylon at altitudes of 3000-5000 ft. (after BEDDOME) ; but not found in 

 Himalaya. 



6. Oi'eopanax DECNE. et PL. 



Oreopanax formosana HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 108. Arborescent 

 shrub, branches cinereo-stellato-tomentose or adpressingly pilose. Leaves ample 

 long petiolate, petioles at first adpressingly stellately pilose, at last subglabrous, 

 1-2-times longer than blades, base dilated, stipules slightly prominent acute, 

 connate to the base of the petioles, blades broadly orbicular in outline 20 

 cm. long 23 cm. broad or smaller, base broadly truncate or cordately truncate, 

 margin obsolete 3-5-lobate or grossly irregularly dentate, teeth acute, sinuate 

 between the teeth, 5-7-nerved, above subglabrous, veins impressed, beneath 

 densely covered by stellate hairs, veins and veinlets prominent. Flower- 

 heads corymbose-paniculate. Panicles terminal, 15 cm. long, as long as petioles, 

 13 cm. broad, densely covered by hairs, (hairs stellate or simple), branches 

 alternate, divaricate at an obtuse angle, heads pedunculate, peduncles 

 opposite, ternate, or alternate, bracts at the base of peduncles broadly 

 ovate 4mm. long; bracteoles scale-shaped, thick 3 under each flower, 

 one of them larger broadly ovate 3 mm. long, 2 -lateral ones smaller 

 opposite covered by long dense hairs, at the same time bearded. Heads 

 subglobose, 6-7 mm. in diameter, nearly 15-flowered, 2-times longer than 

 peduncles. Flowers all villose, sessile, buds subturbinate 2 mm. long. 

 Calyx margin obsolete dentate. Petals 5 valvate, inside glabrous ovately 

 triangular, 1^ mm. long or longer deciduous. Stamens 5, filaments short, 

 anthers oblong; disc expanded. Ovary 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled, styles 2, short 

 distinct, erect, stigma terminal. Fruits broadly globose, 4^ mm. long 5 mm. 

 broad smooth, by abortive 1-seeded, compressed, tomentose drupaceous, styles 

 persistent, veiy recurved. Seeds ovoid subtriqueter 4 mm. long, albumen 

 ruminate. Embryo near hilum, minute. 



HAB. Bataiankei, Mt. Arisan. 



It is stated in " BENTH. et HOOK. f. Gen. PI. I. p. 939" that the 

 ovary of the genus Oreopanax is 5-celled. But this generic character- 

 is a little broadened in " Exnr, u PUANTT, Nat. Pfl.-fam. 1II.-8 p. 39 " 



