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** Pctah short, valvate. Anthers dorcijixed. Style short. 

 CoKxus, Linnceus. 

 Petals 4. Oviinj 2-cLlIud, with a simple stigma. Leaves usually opposite. 

 C. o])Lo.No.i, "Wall. Hills East of Toung-ngoo at 4000 to 7000 feet. 



Order AE.VLIACE.E. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, regular. Cah/x-Iimh forming a slightly 

 raised line or short cup round the sumniit, truncate or toothed, or quite inconspicuous. 

 Petals 5 or more, rarely 4, valvate, shorth* intlected at tlie tip, and often toliering 

 (very rarely blunt and imbricate). Stamens as many as petals or sometimes more. 

 Anthers versatile, the cells parallel and opening longitudinally. Ovarii inferior, 2- or 

 more celled, rarely by abortion 1-cellcd, with a single anatropous ovule in each cell, 

 suspended from the summit. Styles as many as cells, either distinct with small 

 terminal stigmas, or united in a cone, or more or less reduced to a slight protuberance 

 with inconspicuous stigmas. Fruit more or less drupaceous and indehiscent, the 

 epicarp succulent, rarely almost dry and thin. Seeds solitary, pendulous, inclosed 

 in pyrenes. Albumen homogeneous or ruminate. Finhryo minute, near the apex, 

 with a superior radicle. Trees, often palm-like, shrubs or climbers, with alternate 

 compound or rarely simple leaves. Stipules none. Flowers small, in umbels or 

 heads often collected into panicles. 



This Order contains few species of economic value. It comprises, however, the 

 famous Ginseng {Panax ginseng) so extravagantly esteemed in China, Japan, and 

 other parts of the East for its restorative qualities. The substance known as rice- 

 paper is the pith of Fatsia papyrifera, cut into thin slices. The only other noteworthy 

 plant is the Ivy {Redera helix). 



ARJLIE.E. 



Petals more or less imbrieate, broad at the base. 



Akalia, Linnteus. 



Oynocciuni 2-5-merous. Styles free. Fruit angular in a dried state. Pedicels 

 jointed. I^eaves usually pinnate or decompound. 



A. (Panax) akmata, AVall. Tavoy. 



BEVEniE.E. 



Petals valvate in bud. 



* Stamens as many as petals. 



X Albumen homogeneous {Panaciecc). 



+ Ovary 2- {rarely 1-, 3-, or A-)celled, the cells usually fewer than the petals. 



\ Styles distinct from the base or from a conical base. 



Panax, Linnteus. 



Fruits laterally compressed or didymous, rarely 3-4-angular. Filaments filiform. 

 Styles distinct, at length recurved, the stigmas more or less decurrent on the inner side. 

 Umbels, heads or racemes forming comjiound inflorescences, rarely simjile. Leaves various. 



*r. FumcosuM, L. Cultivated in Pegu. 



f f Styles united into a cone or column. 



Bkassaioi'sis, Detic. ct Planch. 



Flowers 5-merous. Fruits terete. Ovary 2-1 -celled. Pedicels not jointed. 

 Umbels forming large terminal racemes. Leaves palmatifid, rarelj' digitate. 



B. (Panax) palmata, Eoxb. Chittagoug and the Andamans. 

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