874 



LXXI. ARALIACE^. 



[Schefflera. 



(i) S. lanceolata 



(2) 



(3) 



(4) 

 (5) 



lurida 

 tristis 



cephalotes 

 capitellata 



(6) S. Klossii 



(7) S. Scortechinii 



Petals 5- to 9-valvate. Stamens as many (very rarely double) ; 

 anthers ovate. Disc convex. Ovary as many cells as there are 

 petals. Stigma conic sessile or on a short style. Fruit sub-globose 

 fleshy angled when dry. Seed laterally compressed. Albumen not 

 ruminate. 3pecies 100, Old World tropics. 



Harms in " Pflanzenfamilien " has put Heptapleunim under the older 

 name of Schefflera, a genus based on two Fiji and New Zealand plants which 

 seem to be truly Heptapleura, so the later genus Heptapleurum is now reduced 



to Schefflera. 



Flowers umbelled. 



Lower leaves simple lanceolate, upper trifoliate 

 Leaves all trifoliate. 



Panicle longer than leaves, lax 

 Panicle shorter than leaves, dense 

 Leaves 5- or more-foliate. 



Flowers sessile or sub-sessile in small heads 

 racemed. 

 Bracts minute or o ; leaves glabrous. 

 Leaflets oblong cuspidate Q by 5 in. 

 Leaflets lanceolate 6 by i in. 

 Leaflets elliptic narrowed at base ; 

 flowers very short pedicelled 

 Umbel-bracts ovate scurfy. 



Leaves 10 in. long, 4 in. wide, oblong; 

 panicles long .... 



Leaves 5 by 2-5 in. ovate round ; 

 panicles short .... 



Leaves thickly woolly beneath 

 Inflorescence of several elongate or short simple 

 racemes of umbels ; flowers stalked. 

 Ovary 12-celled; leaflets 12 by 4 in. thin 

 Ovary 9-celled ; leaflets coriaceous round 3 "5 in. 

 wide ...... 



Ovary 6-celled. 



Leaflets coriaceous oblong, cuspidate 10 in. 

 long ; flowers white .... 



Leaflets coriaceous, oblong-acuminate, 4 by 



I in. 

 Leaflets long acuminate 2'5 in. long; pedicels 

 of flowers i in. long .... 



Leaflets coriaceous, lanceolate acuminate 4 in. 



long; pedicels -05 in. long. 

 Leaflets elliptic cuspidate, 9 by 4 in. ; 

 pedicels short ..... 



Panicle branched. 



Branches few and short; ovary 5- to 6-celled. 

 Leaflets lanceolate 3 by i-25 in. ; panicle 2 in. 



long 



Leaflets elliptic cuspidate 4 by i"5 in.; 



panicle 6 in. long .... 



Leaflets oblong elliptic 6 by 2 in. or more; 



panicle 6 in. long .... 



Leaflets thin elliptic; panicle wide spreading 



9 in. long ..... 



Leaflets coriaceous ; flowers medium ; panicle 



short, dense ..... 



(8) 

 (9) 



S. pergamacea 

 S. tomentosa 



(10) S. singalangensis 



(11) S. latifoliata 



(12) S. HuUettii 



(13) S. elegans 



(14) S. scandens 



(15) S. subracemosa 



(16) S. subulata 



1 7) S. nervosa 



18) S. affinis 

 S. Ridleyi 

 S. Roxburghii 

 S. venulosa 



(19) 

 (20) 

 (21) 



