376 ARALIACE E. HEDERA. 
however enable it to be again recognised.—Flowers unisexual. Male. Perianth sim- 
ple, 4-partite ; segments linear-elliptical, coriaceous, valvular in zstivation. Sta- 
mens Mads ann with the divisions of the perianth: filaments very short, broadest 
at the base: anthers fixed by their back a little above the base, nearly as long as the 
erianth, dehiscing longitudinally. No rudiment of a pistillum. Female unknown. 
[ve twining, glabrous as well as the whole plant. Leaves alternate, oval, shortly 
acuminated, with a few teeth or short sharp lobes near the base, scarcely coriaceous, 
feather-nerved ; nerves rather distant, about 5 on each side of the midrib. Petioles 
twining. Peduncles several (3-5) together, filiform, pretty long, springing from tu- 
bercles at the apex of very short abortive supra-axillary branchlets (or general pe- 
duncles ?), each bearing a simple many-flowered umbel. ' Pedicels slender, surround- 
ed at the base by a minute cup-shaped 4cleft ciliated bractea resembling a little ca- 
lyx.—Our specimens were obtained from Klein's herbarium ; there was no name or 
locality attached. If this be truly Araliaceous, we may suppose the flowers to be 
polygamous, and the calyx in the male flower to be quite abortive, while the petals 
are what we term the segments of the perianth. 
I. PANAX. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 860. 
Flowers polygamous. Margin of the calyx very short ; obsoletely 5-tooth- 
ed. Petals 5. Stamens as numerous as the petals, alternating and insert a 
with them. Styles 2-3, short. Fruit fleshy, compressed, orbicular or didy- 
mous, 2-3-celled ; cells coriaceously chartaceous. Trees, shrubs, or her- 
baceous plants. 
P. anisum, DC. is a species of Zanthoxylum. 
* 1157. (1) P. fruticosum (Linn.:) shrubby, unarmed: leaves pinnately 
decompound ; leaflets petioled, oval-oblong, acuminated, very acutely ser- 
rated, often variously laciniated : panicle corymbose, the branchlets bearing 
umbels at the apex: styles 2-3: ovary and berry 2-3-lobed and celled.—DC. 
prod. 4. p. 254; Spr. syst. 1. p. 867 ; Rowb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 76; in E. I. C. 
me tab. 1389 ; Wall. ! L. n. 4932; Wight! cat. n. 1212—Rumph. Amb. 4. 
d Our specimens were obtained from the Madras herbarium, and are probably 
cultivated. 
+1158. (2) P. Heyneana (Wall.)— Wall. L. n. 4927. 
IL HEDERA. inn. ; Swartz; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 26. 
Margin of the calyx elevated or toothed. Petals 5-10, distinct, or cohering 
at the apex and falling off like a calyptra. Stamens 5-10. Styles as many — 
as the petals rarely only 4, converging or combined into 1. Berry with as 
many cells as there are styles.—Climbing or erect shrubs, or trees. Leaves 
simple or compound. Flowers umbelled or capitate. 
It is probable that several i i i s, while the 
remainder may be transferred. retro ame ger aer le. does not yA 
pear to differ, and the Asiatic and Mauritius species of Gilibertia may likewise 
united. Gilibertia Nalugu, DC., however, or Gastonia Nalugu of Lamarck and of 
; prengel, is LL. ende a. ME may further remark, that drale palmata 18 
certainly a species o a, near H. jatrophifolia, DC., and is perhaps H. cheiran- 
tha, Wall. L. n. 4925 : A. i ir i of Loureiro 
(not of Linneus) isa tds golem belongs to — chinensis » 
1159. (1) H. latifolia W. & Aw: labrous : ves innatel 3-foliolate ; 
leaflets roundish, stony cordate s the base, osti auei ed distan 
serrated, p coriaceous, without prominent veins, petioled, the termine 
petiole nearly twice as long as the others: panicle long, slender, narrow, con 
sisting of a few distant fascicles of peduncles bracteated at their base ; rachis 
compressed : flowers 3-5 together, umbelled : calyx 5-toothed : corolla calyp- 
tra-shaped: stamens 5: styles 4: ovary 4-celled.— Wight ! cat. n.1219. . — 
