2i8 ARALIACEAE • CORNACEAE 



ARALIA (DIMORPUANTUUS)— continued 



* A. spinosa. Hercules' Club, Devil's Walking Stick, 50. August. D. Lflts, 



distinctly stalked, veins curve before reaching margin. South United 

 States. (Fig. 21 A.) 



* Dendropanax japonicum. 12. August. E. Branchlets hairless. Ls. ov., 8, 

 often 3-lobed, dark glossy green, leathery, hairless, long-stalked. Fruit ^, ribbed. 

 Assam, China, and Japan. (Fig. 31 f.) 



EcHiNOPANAX HORRiDUS (Fatsia horrida). Devil's Club. 12. June. D. Very 

 prickly. Ls. alternate, ov., 9, 5-7-lobed, lobes sharply toothed, prickly on both 

 sides. Berry \, scarlet. North-west America, North-east Asia. 



Fatsia JAPONICA. 15. October. E. Stem thick, without spines. Ls. alternate, 

 16, palmately 7-9-lobed. Fls. white, in large branching panicles. Berry black. 

 Japan. (Fig. 27 D.) 



Variety variegata. Ls. with white blotches near end of lobes. 



Hedera Helix. Ivy. October. E. Climbs by aerial roots. Ls. alternate, ov., 4, 

 thick and leathery, 3-5-lobed on sterile shoots, unlobed on flowering shoots, hair- 

 less, long-stalked. Fls. greenish yellow, in small clusters. Berry black. Europe 

 (including Britain), Asia. (Figs. 29 G. and 120 B.) 

 Numerous varieties in cultivation. 



NoTHOPANAX arboreum. 25. E. Stems hairless, without spines or prickles. 

 Ls. digitate, 3-7-fol.; lflts. ov., 3, coarsely and bluntly toothed, stalked, Fls, 

 greenish brown. Berry black. New Zealand. (Fig. 5 j.) 



PsEUDOPANAX FEROX. 20. D. Ls. in young plants alternate, linear, 18, deflexed, 

 leathery tapering base, coarsely and unevenly toothed; teeth large, hooked and 

 almost spiny; stalk short and stout. Ls. in older plants linear, obov., 6, entire or 

 vaguely toothed at outer end. Berry |, broadly oblong. New Zealand. 



Family 53. CORNACEAE. K4-10, C4-10, A4-20, G (1-2) 



ALANGIUM (MARLEA). Ls. alternate, 8, palmately lobed, lobes entire; 

 downy, long-stalked. P'ls. i, white; petals linear, forming a tube; in small branched 

 axillary clusters. Fruit |, egg-shaped, thin-walled. 



A. chinense {Marleahegonifolia). 20. March-June. D. L.-stalk i. Stamens 



as many as petals. India and China. (Fig. 29 F.) 

 A. platanifolium. 6. June-July. D. L. -stalks up to 3. Stamens twenty or 



more. China. 



AucuBA JAPONICA. Spotted Laurel. 10. April. E. Branchlets green, stout. Ls, 

 opposite, ov., lane, 8, leathery, glossy green on both sides, hairless, coarsely 

 toothed in outer half, spotted with yellow in female plants. Fls. j, in terminal 

 panicles; petals purplish, 4-parted. Fruit a red berry, Japan. (Fig. 60 b.) 



CORNUS. Cornel, Dogwood. Ls. opposite, entire, pointed; lateral veins 

 evenly spaced and converging towards apex in a somewhat concentric arrange- 

 ment, smaller veins barely visible. Fls. 4-parted, in terminal branched clusters or 

 heads. Fruit a berry. 



{a) Fls. arising from large bracts 



* C. capitata {Benthamia fragifera). Bentham's Cornel. 40. June-July. D, 



Ls. ov., lane, 5, leathery, tapered at both ends, greyish green and downy. 



