384 LVII. ARALIACES. [ Mackinlaya. 
Fitzroy Island, eee, W. Hill; Port Molle and Cumberland Islands, Fitzalan ; 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy 
4, HEDERA, Linn. 
(Irvingia, F. Muell. ; Kissodendron, Seem.) 
Calyx-border slightly er entire or sinuate-toothed.  Petals 5, val- 
ate. Sta Disk co sometimes very prominent. Ovary 5- celled, . 
Styles united into an obtuse cone or very short cylindrical style, with 5 
er ipo stigmas. Fruit nearly globular, with 5 1-seeded pyrenes. 
Seed with a furrowed or ruminated albumen.—Woody climbers or trees. 
Leaves path lobed or pinnately compound. Flowers umbellate, not articu- 
late on the pedicel, the umbels pedunculate in haces panicles. 
The genus, — — by the rumin — contains besides the Aus- 
tralian species is endemic, one widely dis "ep over the northern hemisphere in the 
Old World, my sr some ue Asiatic ones as yet insufficiently investigated. 
l. H. australiana, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 120. A small tree, quite 
abrous. Leaves large, pinnate, the rhachis articulate ; leaflets few, ovate, 
oval-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, often above 6 in. long; 
smooth and shining, but pr ominently veined almost as in Hepta - 
nulosum. Umbels pedunculate, with the peduncles almost verticillate s 
the elongated branches of a large loose terminal panicle. yx- 
slightly sinuate-toothed. Disk broadly conical, though not quite so thick as 
in H. helix. Style very shortly cylindrical or n reduced to a small boss on the 
TETTE Enn EE TTT IUS ENS e H Te P REDE e Ren n EST 
a 
ell. Fragm. v. ; Kisso dendron australianum, Seem. Journ. Bot 
sland. Herbert river, F. Mueller; Rockingham Bay, Dadlachy. th 
the semi-superior appearance of the ovary of Hedera heliz i is due to [s “Thickness of the 
epigynous disk, and the only character remaining to separate H. o ustraliana generically 
from it is the res cree foliage, which can scarcely be admitted in an Order where it 15 99 
variable. 
5. HEPTAPLEURUM, Gertn. 
MN Blume.) 
forming 5 or 6, ma more; l-seeded pvrenes.— Trees or tall shru vr — 
A considerable genus dispersed over tropical and eastern oe Sie ES the only Ans 
tralian species being one which has the widest range in East I 
, B, ulosum, Seem. Journ. Bot 80. tall shrub of bie? "d 
quite glabrous. Key 5 to KN on long Ge, nose dem" e ort and 1 
slong acuminate, 4 to 8 in. long, but in so wies 
obtuse, coriaceous, somewhat shining, the pin weg? veins ad i nied 
prominent. Stipules adnate to the petiole at the base only, Si 
