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discum in stylum brevem sensim elevatum; stigma obscure 5-lobum; 

 ovaria 5-(rarissime 6)-locularia. Bacca atropurpurea sphaerica, 4-6 mm. 



longa. 



W 



no. 8016; Kumage insulae Tanegashima, S. Tanaka; in monte Ubashimata 



M 



W 



Formosa: Kelung, T. Makino; Horisha, K. Miyake; Tamsui, A. Henry. 

 no. 1780, 1735a; Bankinsing, A. Henry, no. 57; Taihoku, E. H. Wilson, no, 

 10269; Tamsuy, R. Oldham, no. 199. 



Kyushu: prov. Osumi {coll. ?); Idzumimura, prov. Satsuma, Z. 

 Tashiro; insula Yakushima, E. H. Wilson, no. 6108. 



Heptapleurum Gaertn. 



Heptapleurum Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. n. 472, t. 178, t. 1 (1791). 

 Seemann in Jour. Bot. n. 297, in nota sub. gen. Agalmate (1864); in. 

 75 (1865); vi. 164 (1868).— Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PI. i. 942 (1867), 

 pro parte. 



Aralia sect. Paratropia Blume, Bijidr. 873 (1826). 



Heptapleurum subgen. Eu-Heptapleurum C. B. Clarke in Hooker, Fl. Brit. 



Ind. ii. 729 (1879). 

 Paratropia De Candolle, Prodr. iv. 265 (1830).— Wight & Arnott, Prodr. Fl. 

 Ind. Or. i. 377 (1831) —G. Don, Gen. Syst. m. 395 (1834).— Endlicher, 

 Gen. PI. 795 (1836-40).— Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 752 (1855); in Ann. Mus. 



Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. 19 (1863). 

 Schefflera Sect. Heptapleurum Harms in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 



in. abt. 8, 38 (1894). 

 Arbusculae epiphyticae plus minus scandentes. Folia alterna, digitata. 



Umbellae racemosae velpaniculatae;calycis limbus brevissimus, subtrun- 



catus, 5-7 (8-12)-dentatus; petala 5-7 (8-12), aestivatione valvata, 



caduca, vulgo purpurea vel sanguinea; stamina 5-7 (8-12); filamenta 



subulata vel subfiliformia; antherae rotundatae; connectivum parvum, 



non productum; styli nulli; stigmata in disco immersa, persistentia ; 



ovarium 5-7-loculare. Drupae maturae subsiccae angulato-sulcatae; 



pyrenae chartaceae. — Circiter 40 species in Asiatrop. et insulis Pacificis. 



Heptapleurum arboricolum Hayata, Icon. PI. Form. vi. 23 (1916). 



Heptapleurum octophyllnm A. Henry in Trans. As. Soc. Jap. xxiv. suppl. 48 

 (List PI. Formos.) (1896), pro parte.— Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 

 xxv. art. ix. 107 (Fl. Mont. Formos.) (1908), pro parte.— Non Hance. 



Schefflera arboricola Hayata, Icon. PI. Formos. vi. 23 (1916), pro syn. 



Formosa: in monte Kakubansan, S. Sasaki; Shisangan, T. Makino; 

 in monte Niitakayama 3000 m., T. Kawakami et U. Mori, no. 1899;South 

 Cape, A. Henry, no. 297, 1358, 1358A; Bankinsing, A. Henry, no. 1718; 



Wils 



Wilson 



Boerlagiodendron Harms 



Boerlagiodendron Harms in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. in. 

 art. 8, 31 (1894). 



