380 LVII. ARALIACEJE. [ Astrotiche. 
slightly cordate, the larger ones sometimes almost peltate, 4 to 8 in. long, 
glabrous on the upper side, the floral ones small, linear-lanceolate or the 
upper ones reduced to small bracts. Umbels numerous, many-flowered, in 
a large terminal paniele. eng woolly-tomentose rege: Disk with a 
slightly raised margin. Fruit nearly 2 lines broad, flat winged, the en- 
docarp of each carpel cen imer ed or folded nxor ps commissure, 
but not curved into spurious cells—Bolax floccipes, Sieb. Pl. Exs 
n Moreton Island, F. 27 Her. 
ales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 258, and 
ime euer to Hastings river, Beckler; and New England, C. Stuart ; ai ine ni 
Illawarra, 4. Cunningham, and others 
ay snbpeltata. Leaves more coriaceous, eed above, slightly cordate or shortly pel- 
tate at the base.— Blue Mountains, Illaw 
its — “sa germ veda ji in broad.—Blue Mountains aud to the 
nort 
Var.incana. Tomentum closer and whiter. Panicle more slender and leafless. Flowers 
^w Fa less GE —A, latifolia, Benth. in Hucg. Enum. 55.—Port Jackson and 
ue Mountain 
3. A lo Ed Ca in CES Enu ne 55. äer 4 allied to the 
more prominent. Leaves apos fnt vn acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long and 
rarely above } in. broad, glabrous above, with a close white or looser an 
floccose tomentum Kees or rarely almost glabrous. Fruits rather 
larger than in 4. floce 
Queensland. ken river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, F. — and others. 
. S. ales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Bro , Lownes ; Port 
Stevens: M‘ Arthur. 
e specimens very difficult to distinguish from the sod ones of 4. 
floccosa ; others zeg near to the longer-leaved ones of 4. ledifolia 
4. A. ledifolia, DO. Mem. Ombell. 30. t. 6, and Prod. iv 
slender shrub than A. floccosa, with virgate branches covered: as ‘all as the 
inflorescence and under side of the leaves with a close or floccose tomentum. 
eaves oblong-linear or net, obtuse or rarely almost acute, 1 
and narrower than in 4. sina ees and fruit the same as int h 
species. — Bolax ledifolius, Sieb. Pl. ; A. hoveoides, A. Cum. ; Benth. 
Hueg. Enum. 55 (with short Kitz se) linearis, A. Cunn. ; Benth. |. c. 
(with long narrow leaves) ; Æ. asperifolia, F. Muell.; Klatt in Linnga, x 
709 (with me wë 
N.S. wW Port Jackson to the Blue e Sieber, n. 257, and — 
ereptus to dën: A. Cunni: ningham, and othe hort- 
ctoria. Buffalo range, Latrobe river, Ghia iind etc., F. Mueller (usually the s 
leaved form). 
2. PANAX, Linn. 
(Nothopanax, Mig.) um 
Calyx-border usually slightly prominent, truncate or shortly irte 
Petals 5, valvate, often coheri ring at the tips, especially in female ge 
Stamens 5. Disk broad and not thick, the margin sometimes promin 
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