L .ft 

 Panax. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 77 



This elephant erect shrub, was introduced into the Bo- 

 tanic Garden near Calcutta from the Moluccas in 17J)8, 

 and in April 1800 blossomed for the fust time. There 

 were only two plants originally, and both completely 

 hermaphrodite. 



Trunk straight, but short, soon dividing into many 

 branches ; general height from five to eight feet. Bark 

 dark coloured, with many small, ash-coloured, sca- 

 brous dots. Leaves alternate, recurved, supra-decom- 

 pound ; from ten to fifteen inches long. Pinna and low- 

 er pair of Pinnuloi opposite ; there are generally about 

 six pair of the former, but the number of the latter is ve- 

 ry unequal. Leaflets lanceolate, often variously laciniate, 

 serrate ; serratiires ending in subulate, inoffensive points, 

 smooth on both sides. Petioles stem-clasping, round, 

 smooth, maculated, jointed, and swelled at the jointg. 

 Inflorescence may, I think it should, be called a termi- 

 nal panicle, composed of numerous, small subrotund 

 simple umbellets. Involucres most minute, caducous. 

 Perianth small, generally five-toothed, permanent. Pe- 

 tals five, linear, first spreading, then reflexed. Fila- 

 ments five, alternate with, but shorter than the petals. 

 Anthers oblong. Germ inferior, generally two-lobed 

 though sometimes three. Styles short, two or three ac- 

 cording as there are lobes in the germ. Berry two or 

 three-lobed, small, lead-coloured. The pulp stains pa- 

 per of a dark violet colour. Seeds one in each lobe of the 

 bery. 

 It is readily propagated from cuttings and suckers. 



5. P. conchifolium. R. 



Shrubby, Leaves simple, round-cordate, acutely ser- 

 rate, concave. 



Scutellaria. Rumph. amb. 4. f . 31 . 



A pretty large, very erect, smooth shrub, a native of the 

 Moluccas, from thence introduced by way of Madras in-. 



