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Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Tnd. II, 723. Panax armatum^ Wall. 

 Cat. 4933; G. Don. Gen. Syst. Ill, 386. 



Kedah ; Curtis 2526. Distrib. British India ; in Burma, the Khasia 

 Hills and on the lower slopes of the Eastern Himalaya. 



3. Aralia ferox, Miq. Flor. Tnd. Bat. I, Pt. I, 750. A lax spread- 

 ing glabrous shrub, often scandent to 20 oi* 30 feet ; the stems, branches, 

 rachises of the leaves and inflorescence bearing numerous short recurved 

 spines. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, the pinnae 3 or 4 pairs ; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, 3-5 in a pinna, the pairs opposite, ovate, acute, the bases 

 rounded, the edges obscurely undulate-serrate ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 the upper shining when dry, the lower sub-glaucous ; length 1-2 in., 

 breadth '75-1 in. ; petiolules unequal, the lateral *15--3 in., the terminal 

 •5-'65 in. long. Panicle terminal, 8-15 in. long and 6 in. across, 

 with numerous slightly compressed horizontal branches, themselves 

 branching and ultimately ending in numerous peduncled umbels of 

 10-15 long-pedicelled oblong flowers '1 in. long ; the pedicels slender, 

 •3-5 in. long. Galyx-tuhe campanulate, 10-ridged, the limb with 5 

 small triangular acute teeth. Petals ovate. Fndt ovate- globose, 

 boldly 5-ridged, rather more than '1 in. long. 



Perak ; Scortechini 142, 501 ; King's Collector 1037, 4434, 5089, 

 8438, 10568 ; Wray 2155. 



2. Aralidium, Miq. 

 Leaves large, simple, usually deeply lobed or pinnatifid, glabrous. 

 Flowers male or hermaphrodite, in large compound panicles, minute. 

 Calyx-teeth triangular, spreading, the tube campanulate. Petals 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 5. Ovary usually 3-celled, two of the cells soon 

 aborting. Styles distinct, subulate. Fruit obliquely ovoid, drupaceous, 

 1 inch or more in length, 1-seeded ; the seed solitary, rugose, pendulous, 

 vertically sulcate ; albumen very copious, coarsely ruminate, penetrated 

 by outgrowing folds from the funicle ; embryo small. Distrib ; two 

 species, both Malayan. 



This is a remarkable genus of doubtful position. The large solitary seed, with 

 a much developed funicle forming an expansion at the base of the coarsely 

 ruminated albumen and sending processes into the" latter, and the unisexual habit 

 make it doubtful whether it should not be placed in Cornaceas (to which Seemann 

 referred it), rather than in Araliacex. 



Aralidium pinnatifidum, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 763, t. 13. A 

 small tree without prickles, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, irregularly lobed or coarsely pinnatifid, rarely entire 

 and narrowly elliptic ; length of the lobed or pinnatifid forms 10-18 in., 

 breadth 7-10 in. ; length of the entire leaves 4-10 in., breadth 2-4 in. ; 

 petiole stout, 1*5-5 in. long. Panicles many-branched, ferruginous- 



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