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PENTAPANAX. 



Climbers with pinnate leaves of 5 to 9 leaflets. 

 Flowers in umbels, which are in simple or compound 

 racemes. Pedicels jointed just below the flowers. 



Species few in India only. 



Pcntapanax Icschcnaultii Seem. ; F.B.I, ii p. 724, II 4. 

 A climbing shrub with large pinnate leaves. Leaflets 

 usually 5, 3 to 5 by 2 to 3 inches, ovate-acute, with fine 

 bristle-tipped serration from base to apex, glabrous- 

 Main branches of panicle 2 to 4 inches, again branched or 

 simple. Umbels perfect, pedicels J^ inch, jointed just 

 below the flower. Fruits globose, % inch, with persist- 

 ent style ; deciduous from the flat slightly expanded end 

 of the pedicel. 



Nilgiris : in sholas on the western side, to 7,000 feet. 

 Fyson 1921, 2453. 



Gen. Dist. Also Sikkim and Burma. 



SCHEFFLERA. 



Comprising both HEPTAPLEURUM and BRASSAIA of 

 F.B.I. and of Vol. I. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



f Flowers racemed along the branches of a large panicle 

 j . . . (Vol. I p. 178. t. 351). . . S. racemosa. 

 ^ I Fls. in umbels along a simple raceme. S. wallichianum, 



1^ Flowers in umbels on branches of a panicle . . . . b. 



[ Leaflets obtuse, venation very distinct. . . S. stellata. 

 b \ Leaflets acute, toothed, venation obscure. Vol. I p. 178. 



[ S. rostratum. 



Schcfflera stellata Harms.) F.B.I. ii p. 730, VII9. A 

 fair sized tree. Leaflets obovate or roundish, very 

 obtuse ; tertiary veins when dry very distinct. Flowers 

 white. Branches of panicle numerous and slender. 

 Styles short and not projecting on the fruit, t. 352. 

 Wight Ic. tt. lOll, I0I2. 



