Panaz. | LVII. ARALIACEX. 381 
Ovary 2- or rarely 3-celled. Styles 2, rarely 3, at first erect and sometimes 
cohering, afterwards distinct and recurved. Fruit flattened, the endocarp 
dorsal edge, the exocarp more or less succulent. Albume n.—Trees or 
shrubs. Leaves eer or ge? tvi or rarely a few on the 
same tree or bush undivided. Flo often polygamous, artieulate on the 
pedicels, in umbels or Set in fisada x or racemes, the umbels or racemes pa- 
nieulate or rarely solita 
The genus, if limited me to the views of Planchon and Denim is eddy distri- 
buted over the tropi ical regions of the Old World and extends to New , but is not 
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sanctioned by A. Gray and others. iquel, however, reserves the name of Panas for these 
herbaceous species, and proposes the name of Nothopanaz for Plan on and Decaisne’s 
anar. As the views of the latter authors will probably meet with more general e pen 
they are here followed. The seven Australian species, as far as hitherto known, are all en 
demic, two of them anomalous in their — nce. 
Leaves es digitate or rarely undivided. Umbels L P. Gunnii. 
Leaves pinnate or Mpate Flowers tenu ec paniculate 
or racemose. 
Leaflets gerens, long, SR lanceolate. Carnie Pe : 
promin 2. P. Murrayi. 
wig s pubescent underneath, largo, ovate or - oblorig; t acu- ; 
scarcely prominent 3. P. mollis. 
lade z s glabrous, jme ovate- cse or oblong.  Umbels few- poi aig 
numerous. Calyx-limb cup-shaped, ene? . 4. P. Macgillivrai. 
va 
t 5. P. sambucifolius. 
ne ie l " h d sonlabe or 
olate. * Flowers ‘sessile, capitate ; eads pani 6: P. opka. 
Leaves pinnate 4 or Wu: Flowers » eicht r —" ra- 
cemes paniculate . T. P. elegans. 
i ig e Gunnii, Hook. fi in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 466, a 
b 
ht on some branches the mm eaves Si d to 3 lanceolate Miami or quite 
1 Umbels wow solitary, on short peduncles lowers numerous, 
- 9t pedicels of 1 or 2 lines. Calyx-te teeth prominent. "Disk slightly convex. 
Styles s ^ uit mts seen ripe. 
va Port Mos Franklin and Gordon rivers, Gunn, Milligan ; 
Mount Lee p» C. Stuart. 
?. P. Murra 
sinple to the die ty of 50 or 60 ft., and then almost met st 
x * Mueller, Dallach chy). Leave s simply pinnate, often several ft. long ; leaf- 
obliquely lanceolate, seks or slightly denticulate, herbaceous but not 
thin, 8 to 6 in, long, or when luxuriant 8 to 10 in., quite glabrous. Umbels 
Quo. dove red, peduuculate, in racemes or divaricately-branched jen 
inconspicuous. Petals and stamens not seen. Fruit about 
