108 PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.. Aralia. 



Leaflets ^ei\o\diiedi, generally five or six, and of dififerent 

 sizes, oblong, pointed, entire, smooth on both sides, the 

 shortest about the length of the common petiole. Petioles 

 stem-clasping, round, smooth. Petiolets the largest 

 about an inch round, and smooth. Utnbellets globular, 

 numerous, inserted alternately on many long, terminal, 

 leafless ramifications the whole forming a large open pa- 

 nicle. Floivers \ery numerous, small. Calyx ; involucre 

 of the globular umbellet, scarcely any. Perianth a five- 

 sided marginal elevation round the germ. Corol ; petals 

 five, inserted on the five marginal sides of the perianth. 

 Stamens five. Germ inferior, five-celled, with a single ovu- 

 la in each attached to the top of the cell, &c. exactly as in 

 the ripe state. Berry round, size of a small pea, smooth, 

 yellow, five-celled. Seed solitary, attached to the top 

 of the cell immediately under the remains of its stigma, 

 straight and sharp on the inner edge, convex and 

 broad in the interior. Integument single, white. Peris- 

 perm conform to the seed, entire, pure white, of a firm 

 and rather tough consistence. Embryo inverse, scarcely 

 half the length of the perisperra. Cotyledons two, linear. 

 Radicle cylindric:, superior, immediately within the um- 

 bilicus. 



In Hedera terebinthacea which this species most 

 resembles, the style which is single, is as long as the fi- 

 lament, and cuds in a single acute stigma ; consequently 

 they cannot be the same, though in the Banksian herbari- 

 um I believe my plant is there marked H. terebinthi- 

 ana. 



2. A. umbraculifera. R. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Z.ea?;es pinnate ; leaflets numer- 

 ous; inflorescence terminal. 



Papaja silvestris. Rumph. Amb. 1. p. 149. t. 53./. 1. 



A native of the Molucca Islands, from thence introduc- 

 ed into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 1798 ; where 



