114 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
Pedicelli articulati. Flores calyculati, polygami. Calycis tubus obconicus; limbus minute 5-den- 
tatus. Petala 5, wstivatione valvata. Stamina 5. Styli 2 (per excessum 3) dein divergentes, fere ad 
basin usque facie interiore stigmatosi. Ovarium 2-, rarissime 3-loculare. Drupa didymo-compressa 
v. rarissime 3-gona. Albumen :equabile.— Frutices sepius anisati, foliis pinnato-decompositis, pin- 
natis v. simplicibus; petiolis basi stipulatim dilatatis; umbellis decompositis v. racemoso-paniculatis, 
floribus parvis albidis v. viridiusculis.— Panacis, Aralie et Paratropie sp. auct. 
ANothopanaz was established in 1856 by Miquel in the * Bonplandia’ for a set of shrubby Hederacee 
having articulate pedicels, polygamous 5-androus flowers, and a two-celled ovary. The generic character 
there given was admitted by him, unaltered, into his * Flora of Dutch India ;’ but in the Supplement of that 
work he amplified it so far as to admit a Hederacéa with 5-7 styles, which he named N. tricochleatum. 
In another more recent publication (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i.), he rejects the genus altogether, and re- 
fers all the species once more to the old Linnean genus Panas. I think Mothopanax ought to be upheid, 
and be restricted to the dicarpous (by excess tricarpous) species. The 5-carpous plant Miquel referred to CEU 
I consider to be Polyscias pinnata, Forster. With Panas, as I understand the genus, NofAopanaz has but 
distant relationship. The genus now comprises about a dozen species, but it is quite possible that some of 
them will have to be rejected when better specimens can be examined. I more than half suspect that 
N. (?) obtusum, of which I have not seen a specimen, may belong to my new genus Heteropanaz, which is 
founded upon the East Indian Panag fragrans, Roxb.* What I have seen in herbaria under the name of 
Panax pinnatum, Lam., is certainly a species of Arthrophyllum, a genus easily known by its 1-celled ovary ; 
and Miquel’s description of “ Panax pinnatum," given in the Annales above quoted, must refer to a dif- 
ferent plant, perhaps a genuine Nothopanaz. have also my suspicion about JV. cochleatwn (known to me 
only from books). It has simple leaves, whilst all the other species of the genus have compound ones. 
Most of the species have a very strong smell of aniseed and celery,—hence the name of * celery-tree " is 
given to N. elegans, Seem., by the Queensland colonists.t : 
* Heteropanax, Seem. (gen. nov.). Pedicelli inarticulati. Flores ecalyculati, hermaphroditi. Calyx 
tubo obconico, limbo minute 5-dentato. Petala 5, ovata, 1-nervia, estivatione valvata. Stamina 5. Ova- 
rium 2-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Styli 2, liberi, demum divaricati. Drupa exsucca, didyma, compressa, 
2.pyrena. Albumen ruminatum.—Arbuscula inermis Indis orientalis, foliis alternis simpliciter impari- v. 
supradecomposite pinnatis, foliolis petiolulatis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis, umbellis paucifloris panicu- 
latis, pedunculis pedicellis calycibusque stellato-tomentosis, floribus odoratis.— Panacis sp. auct. Species 
unica: 1. H. fragrans, Seem. mss. Panaw fragrans, Roxb. Cat. Cale. 21; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 254, 
excl. syn. Don.—Bootan (Griffith! n. 2073), Kumaon (Strachey et Winterbottom !), Sikkim, 2-4000 feet 
(Hooker fil. et Thomson !), Khassia (Hooker fil. et Thomson !), Calcutta Bot. Garden (Wallich! n. 4929 5), 
. Assam plains (Jenkins !).— Very variable in foliage, some leaves being scarcely a foot long, others exceeding 
4-5 feet in length, with petioles 2 feet and more. Don’s Hedera fragrans, referred doubtfully to this species 
by De Candolle, is Pentapanax Leschenaultii, Seem., a common Nepal plant. 
t The following is an enumeration of all the species of Nothopanaz known to me :— 
* Folia decomposite tripinnata. 
1. N. fruticosum, Miq. in Bonpl. 1856, p. 139; Fl. Ned. Ind. l. e. p. 765.— Panaz fruticosum, Linn. 
Spec. p. 1515; Wight, Icon. t. 573. Scutellaria tertia, Rumph. Amb. vol. iv. p. 78. t. 33.—Indian Archi- 
pelago (Horsfield!), Coebinehina (Loureiro! in Brit. Mus.), Ceylon (Seemann!), Wallis Island (Sir E. 
Home!), Viti Islands (Seeiaann! n. 204). Much cultivated about houses by all Malayan and Polynesian 
races. 
2. N. (?) obtusum, Miq. in Bonpl. 1856. p. 139; Fl. Ned. Ind. l.c. p. 166.— Panaz obtusum, Bl. Bijdr. 
p. 890; Mig. Ann. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 15.— Western Java (Blume !). Perhaps a species of Heteropanaz. 
3. N. elegans, Seem.—Panaa elegans, Fraser, mss.; Muell. Fragm. vol. i. p. 107, et in Trans. Phil. 
Soc. Victoria, 1857. Panax polybotrys, F. Muell. Herb. Panax decompositum, Muell. Herb.—* Celery- 
tree” of Moreton Bay. Island and shores of Moreton Bay (A. Cunningham! F. Mueller !). 
** Folia simpliciter pinnata. | 
4. N. Cumingii, Seem.— Paratropia Cumingiana, Presl, Epim. p. 250; Walp. Ann. vol. ii. p. 725.— 
Philippine Islands (Cuming! n. 1553), Borneo (Motley! in Herb. Hook.). 
5. N. multijugum, Seem. Paratropia (2) multijuga, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 722.— Viti (Seemann ! 
m. 205; Harvey! U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
6. N. Macgillivrayi, Seem. mss. (sp. nov.).—Cape York, Australia (M‘Gillivray !). Somewhat re- 
sembling N. Cumingii in leaf. : 
7. N. Murrayi, Seem.—Panax Murrayi, F. Muell. Frag. vol. ii. p. 106.—New South Wales (Oldfield! 
in Herb. Hook.). 
8. N. (2) Anisum, Miq. in Bonplandia, 1856, p. 139, et Fl. Ned. Ind. l. e. p. 766. — Panax Anisum, DC. 
