76 PENTANDRIA DiGYNiA. Panax. 



3. p. fragrans. R. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves supra-decompound ; leaf- 

 lets obovate oblong, acuminate sub-entire, smooth. Pa- 

 nicles terminal. 



Gootee-soona is the vernacular name of it in Silhet, 

 where it grows to be a middling sized tree. Its immense 

 panicles of fragrant blossoms appear in October and 

 November, and the seed ripens in February and March. 



ieat;€5 alternate, approximate, oppositely supra-decom- 

 pound, from two to four feet long. Leaflets ovate-oblong, 

 entire, except in young plants, then remotely and very 

 sharply serrulate, all rather obtusely acuminate, and 

 smooth ; from two to six inches long, and about half that 

 in breadth. Petioles perfectly round, polished ; base 

 sheathing, and swelled. Panicles terminal, immensely 

 large, and composed of numerous compound branches 

 of short peduncled, globular urabellets of small fragrant 

 flowers, embraced by a minute, ferruginous mealy invo- 

 lucre. Calyx superior, five-toothed. Petals five, spread- 

 ing, oblong-lanceolate, a ridge down the middle on the 

 inside. Filaments five, alternate with, and longer than 

 the petals. Anthers ovate. Germ inferior, two-celled, 

 with the ovula in each attached from its upper end to the 

 partition. Styles two, short, woolly. Stigma simple. 

 Berries two-lobed, a little flattened, two-celled, size of 

 two small peas joined. Seed solitary, attached as in 

 the germ. Perisperm conform to the seed. Embryo 

 minute, lodged almost transversely in the apex of the 

 perisperm, with the point of the radicles a little elevated 

 towards the umbilicus. 



4. P. fructicosum. Willd. 4. 1127. 



Shrubby. Leaves supra-decompound ; leaflets lanceo- 

 late, acutely serrate, often laciniate. Umbellets globu- 

 lar, forming terminal panicles. 



Scutellaria tertia. Rumph. amb. vol. 4. t. 33. 



