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Perak ; near Ulu Kerling, King^s Collector in flower during March ; 

 only once collected. 



8. Heteeopanax, Seem. 



A stnall unarmed tree. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, very large, 

 pinnately decompound, stipules not prominent. Panicles large, the 

 branches bearing umbels, stel 1 ate- h airy ; bracts of umbels small, ovate, 

 obtuse, persistent; pedicels not jointed to the flowers. Flowers polyga- 

 mous, the female flowers most numerous in the terminal umbel. Calyx- 

 limb minutely toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5, filaments filiform, 

 anthers ovate. Disk nearly flat; ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, slender, free 

 from the base, spreadino^, the stigmas sub-terminal. Fruit laterally 

 compressed, coriaceous, almost didymous, 2-8eeded. Seeds compressed* 

 albumen ruminate. Species 1 or 2 ; Indo-Chinese. 



Heteeopanax feageans, Seem. "Rev. Hed. 73. A tree 40-60 feet 

 high ; all pat-ts glabrous. Leaves large, the lower often 3 feet across, 

 pinnately decompound, the pinnae with a pair of opposite leaflets at 

 their forks ; leaflets ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate ; the 

 base slightly oblique, not narrowed ; variable in size (2*5-5 in. long, 

 and l'5-2'5 in. broad) ; petiolules of lateral leaflets •l-*2 in. long, that 

 of the terminal one '8-1 in. Panicles terminal, longer than the leaves ; 

 ■flowers small, whitish -tomentose, in small condensed umbels, their 

 pedicels under '25 in. long; fruit compressed, sub-reniform, sub- 

 glabrous, slightly glaucous, '35 in. across. Brandis For. Flora 249 ; 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 541 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 

 734. Panax fragrans, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21 ; Flor. Ind. II, 76; Wall. 

 Cat. 4929 ; DC. Prodr. IV, 254 {excl. syn. of Don). 



Andaman Islands ; King's Collector. Disteib. Brit. India, Java, 

 China. 



9. Brassaiopsis, Decne. & Planch. 



Large shrubs or trees, glabrous or tomentose, armed or not. Leaves 

 digitate or palmate or angled ; stipules connate within the petiole, not 

 prominent. Umbels in large compound panicles, young parts at least 

 St ellately tomentose ; bracts not large, often persistent; pedicels rising 

 from a dense cluster of persistent bracteoles, not jointed under the 

 of ten polygamous flowers. Calyx 6-tooth.ed. Pe^'jZs 5, valvate. Stamens 

 5. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, united, long or short. Fruit broadly 

 globose or turbinate, 2- or (by abortion) 1 -seeded. Seed not com- 

 pressed ; albumen ruminated. Distrib. Species 11 ; Northern Brit. 

 India to Java. 



Bkassaiopsis palmata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXXIX, 



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