— Heptapleurum.] LVII. ARALIACER, 385 
. within it into a single obtuse lamina. Umbels in a divaricately-branched 
| panicle shorter than the leaves. Male flowers with exserted stamens, and 
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land. Wide Bay, C. Moore,— The species is widely dispersed over East Iudia. 
6. BRASSAIA, Endl, 
With as many I-seeded lateraily compressed pyrenes as cells of the ovary.— 
digitately compound. Flowers sessile in little dense heads, 
2 shortly pedunculate in long racemes, each flower embedded in a cup-shape in- 
of 4 small imbricate bracts. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, 
actinophylla, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 89. A handsome tree, at- 
E: 40 ft., quite glabrous. Leaflets 7 to 16, petiolulate, oblong or ob- 
ovate-oblong, very shortly acuminate, coriaceous, entire, 6 in. to 1 ft. long. 
. Büpules united in a single interpetiolar stipule, adnate to the petiole at the 
1 base, Flower-heads scarcely above 3 in. diameter, on peduncles, sometimes 
. M short, rarely 2 to 1 in. lon , rather numerous along the stout rhachis of 
Ses racemes, which attain sometimes several feet, and are often several together 
he end of the branch, each one subtended by long acuminate leafless 
f les.—F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 108, iv. 121; Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 213. 
| y Hill ; p. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, 4. Vect dpa Gove m 
Hen Gw Island, Henne; Port Molle, Fitzalan ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Boy 
Order LVIII. CORNACE. 
; vig tube adnate to the ovary; limb forming a raised border, entire or 
a) as m ; 
Tom. 2€ 
