ARALIACEiE. 



HEDERA. 



Calyx an elevated or toothed edge. Petals 5-10, not calyp- 

 trate and cohering. Stamens 5-10. Styles 5-10, converging, 

 or consolidated. Berry 5-10-celled. 



131. H. Helix Linn. sp. pi. 292. Eng. Bot. t. 1267. DC. 

 prodr.iv.26l. — Common all over Europe, clinging to trees, 

 rocks and walls. (Ivy.) 



Stem climbing with root-like fibres. Leaves coriaceous, smooth, 

 shining, 5-angled or 5-lobed, the upper or the old ones ovate and acute. 

 Umbels simple, downy. — Leaves austere and bitter ; berries bitter, 

 aperient, emetic. It is mentioned as a sudorific, and was once reputed 

 to prevent drunkenness and to dissipate the effects of wine. 



132. H. umbellifera DC.prodr. iv.262. — Aralia umbellifera 

 Lam. diet. i. 225. Pseudosantalum amboinense Rumf. ii. t. 12. 

 — Mountains of Amboyna. 



Stem shrubby, unarmed. Leaves on long stalks, lanceolate, acumin- 

 ate, distantly serrated. Peduncles 16, trifid, umbellate. Partial um- 

 bels capitate, roundish. — Yields a blackish or dull brown resin with a 

 very powerful aromatic camphorated smell. 



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