LVII. ARALIACER. 879- 
Petals narrow, with long induplicate points. Umbels twice or i 
thrice compound. Leaves digitate 3. MACKINLAYA. 
Styles united in a cone or sho rt st le, or reduced io a a short protuber- 
ance in the dis age? rehenes 
pe -cells and pyrenes 5 o 7. Flowers pedicellate, without 
cteoles. 
EMEN Uma. unes. obse noon tod A MS 
en even . 5. HEPTAPLEURUN, 
and pyrenes Tt o 16. Flowers closely sessile within 
4 ot broad bracts, deus small heads prier ce n long 
verc . 6. BRASSAIA. 
1. ASTROTICHE, DC. 
Cpt minutely prominent. Petals 5, valvate, usually pubescent out- 
side. Stamens 5. Disk broad and not thick, the margin often promin 
| Carp ECH distinct as in other Araliacee, but not so succulent. Albumen 
—Shrubs more or less clothed with a stellate tomentum. Leaves petio- 
late, undivided, entire. Umbels pedunculatg, in large terminal panicles. 
Flowers p on the pedicel. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It is eg placed in Umbelhfere, ch E EE i 
of the omg ai fruit, as well as the habit, are much nearer those of Pa: "m 
— differs slightly i in the epicarp relie po in the foliage and the stelle to- 
Fruit thick, with narrow wings on each side. Endocarp curved into 
Spurious cells on each side of the i inner angle of the m reue. Leaves 
Prat ge lanceolate 1. A. pterocarpa. 
Tutt ^a En ndocarp- grooved only on each side of the inner angle of 
ne. ; 
Leaves from ov vate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate 2. A. floccosa. 
Leaves linear-1 e, Cal -teeth 
r-lanceolate, acute, wë 3 to 6 in. long. " 8. A. longifolia. 
y 
Jon from oblong. 1 to 8 in. lon 
Calyx. Bar M linear to narrow linear, obtuse, o 3 in. xd b dus. 
A slender um H Leaves on 
lo l. A. pter Ocarpa, FP. 
alpes, eordate- e icm 6 to 10 in. AA: densely pb risa 
ep ex 
~The fruit is quite ri 
ee te Fitzroy Island, W. Hill. EE E amt, 
: A. floccosa, DO. Mem. Ombell. 30. t. 5; Prod. iv. T4. A shru 
dm from 10 t 30 ft., the young branches inflorescence and under m 
lan leaves clothed with a dense floccose tomentum. Leaves from ovate- 
folate to lar nceolate, — into a narrow point, rounded at the base or 
