ARALIACEAE 357 
and alternate with them. Ovary inferior, 2- or 3-celled; styles 2 or 3, 
very short. Fruit somewhat drupe-like, compressed or 3-angled. (Greek 
“false” and Panax, an allied genus.) 
1. Leaves simple, rounded, somewhat saucer-like................ 1. N. cochleatum 
1. Leaves pinnate. 
2. Leaflets 11 to 17, frequently jtieabuty lobed, pale-green or yellowish. 
2. N. ornatum 
2. Leaflets 5 to 7, margined or mottled with white............ 3. N. guilfoylei 
1. Leaves 2-pinnate or 3-pinnate. 
2. Leaflets broadly obovate to oblong-obovate, the leaves ternately decom- 
pounds: 2...2e EAA. EE A ed A . 4. N. crispatum 
2. Leaflets linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acuminate, the leaves 
pinnately Weve poem ft... eh 5. N. fruticosum 
* 1, N. cOoCHLEATUM (Lam.) Miq. (Panax cochleatum DC.). Platitos (Sp.- 
Fil.). 
An erect shrub 1.5 to 3.5 m high with simple, suborbicular, cordate, 
somewhat concave, saucer-like leaves 6 to 12 cm in diameter, the margins 
distantly spinulose-dentate. Umbels dense, paniculate. 
Commonly cultivated, but rarely or never flowering here. Cultivated 
throughout Malaya and Polynesia, certainly introduced in the Philippines. 
* 2. N. ORNATUM (Bull.) Merr. (Panax ornatum Bull.). 
An erect, slightly branched shrub, 1 to 8 m high. Leaves pale-green, the 
younger ones yellowish, pinnate, 30 to 60 cm in length. Leaflets 11 to 17, 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, irregular in shape and size, 8 
to 20 em long, deeply and narrowly pinnately lobed to irregularly toothed, 
some teeth coarse, others fine, all sharply pointed. Panicles in the upper 
axils or terminal, up to 40 em long, somewhat pendulous, diffuse. Flowers 
greenish-white. Fruit dark-purplish, somewhat fleshy when fresh, ovoid, 
5 mm long, when dry more or less 3-sulcate, 3-celled. 
Quite commonly cultivated, fl. Feb—March, and probably in other months. 
Thought to have originated in Brazil, but apparently, now widely distrib- 
uted in the tropics in cultivation. 
*3. N. GUILFOYLEI (Cogn. & Marché) Merr. (Aralia guilfoylei Cogn. & 
Marché). 
An erect shrub 2 to 3 m high, slightly branched. Leaves pinnate, 20 to 
50 cm long. Leaflets 5 to 7, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5 to 13 cm long, margins 
distantly, prominently, and sharply serrate, apex obtuse, base often slightly 
inequilateral, the margins white, the upper surface also ee blotched 
with white. 
Commonly cultivated, rarely or never flowering here. Probably a native 
of Polynesia, but now widely cultivated in Malaya and in other regions. 
A form apparently exactly the same except that the leaves are uniformly 
gree, not margined or mottled with white, is also found in cultivation, which 
may be N. pinnatum Miq. 
* 4, N. CRISPATUM (Bull.) Merr. (Panax crispatum Bull.). 
An erect shrub 1 to 2 m high. Leaves up to 20 em long, ternately 
decompound, the leaflets oblong-obovate to broadly obovate, borne in 
threes on the ultimate branchlets of the rachis, green, 2 to 4 cm long, 
obtuse, base usually acute, margins deeply, coarsely, and irregularly toothed, 
the teeth usually spinulose. 
