panax. ARALIACEAE. 925 



4. P. QUINQUEFOLIUM Linn. — C. A. Mey. I. c. 341. — Radice simplici fusiformi 

 divisa; squama ad basin caulis membranacea decidua; foliolis 5 obovalis abrupte 

 caudalo-acuminatis, in media parte profunde grosse biserralis, serraturis hinc 

 serrulatis. 2(, — Aureliana Canadensis Lafit. Mem. du Ginseng c. ic. — Catesby, 

 Nat. hist. of Carolina III. p. 16. t. 16. — Araliaslrum foliis ternis quinqueparlilis 

 Ginseng et Nizin officinarum Trew, Plant. select. 1. t. 6. — Panax quinquefolium 

 Lam. Encycl. melh. II. 723. t. 860. fig. 1. — Woodwille, Med. bot. II. 149. t. 58. — 

 Bol. Magaz. I. 1333. — Barton, Medic. bot. II. 193. t. 45. — Dict. d'hist. natur. 

 XVIII. p. 546. (c. ic.) — Mich. Voy. aux monles Alleghanys p. 183. (c. ic.) — N. ab 

 Esenb. 1. c. t. 15. fig. A. — Crescit in sylvis Americae borealis (in Pennsylvania, 

 Carolina, Maryland). 



f Icon addenda. 

 P. SIMPLEX Forst. — Hook. fil. Antarct. voy. of Terror and Erebus 18. f t. 12. 



4552. CUSSOXIA Thnbrg. 

 (DC. Prodr. IV. 255. — Wlprs. Repert. bot. syst. II. 430.) 



1. C. KRAUSSII Hochstett. Flora (B. Z.) II. 431. - Foliola novena glaberrima, su- 

 pra lucida in peliolulos attenuata, duo infima simplicia lanceolala, media utrin— 

 que duo ternata, suprema tria pinnala, pinnis decurrentibus integerrimis (etiam 

 impari) mucronato-acuminalis; spicae 5-8 umbellalae, punduculus spica longior. 

 Similis C. spicatae Thnbrg., a qua differt foliolis integerrimis, spicarum numero 

 et pedunculi longitudine. Forsan varietas insignis. 5 — Crescil in Promonlorio 

 bonae spei ad fl. Gelbeksriver. 



2. C. CALOPHYLLA Miquel, Ann. des sc. natur. (3. Ser.) I. 36. f — Caule fruticoso; 

 foliis longe petiolatis umbellato-digitalis, foliolis 5-7 longe pedicellatis coriaceis 

 glabris nilidis, inferiore plerumque integro, reliquis in tria vel quinque rarissime 

 seplem segmenla pinnatifidis, segmenlis duobus inferioribus juxta pedicellum 

 decurrenlibus, reliquis subarliculatim inserlis elliplicis, omnibus versus apicem 



remote dentato-serratis vel subinciso-serralis; iloribus ? 6 — Crescit in 



Promonlorio bonae spei. 



4556/,. BRASSAIA Endl. 



(Endl. Decad. novar. slirp. mus. Vindobon. I. p. 89., Iconogr. gener. t. 104-106. et 

 Gener. plant. Suppl. I. p. 1415. — Meisn. Gener. plant. vascul. II. 359) 



1. BR. ACTINOPHYLLA Endl. I. I. c. c. — (Wlprs. Reperl. bot, syst. II. 430/) - 

 Folia in apicibus ramorum conferta alterna longe petiolata, palmatim 7— 14— folio— 

 lala. Slipulae intrapeliolares 2-4-pollicares, e basi lata semipollicari longe acu- 

 minalae dense imbricatae, apice subpalenles. Petioli semiteretes 6-8-pollicares, 

 basi paullum incrassati. Foliola petiolorum apici complanalo orbiculato peliolu- 

 lis sesquipollicaribus radiatim inserta, oblonga, apice subobtusa, basi subemar- 

 ginata 6-8-pollicaria, 3 poll. lata penninervia, remote et obsolele serrulala, co- 

 riacea glaberrima nilida. Racemi terminales terni, basi vaginis stipularibus mar- 

 gine incisis muniti simplices stricli, digiti crassitie 4-6-pedales. Flores pisi 

 minoris mole, in apice pedicellorum simplicissimorum pollicarium capitalo-glo- 

 merati, pedicelli basi bracteae latae semicircularis cicalrice notali. — Crescit in 

 Nova Hollandia tropica. 



4558. ARALI.l Linn. 



(DC. Prodr. IV. 257. - Wlprs. Repert. bot. syst. II. 430. et 939.) 



1. A. POLARIS Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. au Pol Sud (Bot. phaner.) t. 2. (absq. descr.) 



— Hook. fil. Antarct. voy. of Terror and Erebus 19. t — Hook. Icon. plant. t. 747. 



— Polygama herbacea inermis, tola selis mollibus laxis obsita: foliis maximis 

 longe petiolatis orbiculari-reniformibus, basi profunde cordalis, margine mulli- 

 lobatis, lobis 3-5-dentatis, dentibus subacutis; umbellis copiosis composilis, par— 

 tialibus mulliradiatis globosis; involucris foliaceis; fioribus densis; fruclibus de- 

 presso-sphaericis exsuccis suberosis atris nitidis. 2J, — Rhizoma cylindricum 

 procumbens 2-3-pedale. Caules validi 2-4-pedales e collo ipso valde ramosi, 



