62 Materials for a Flora, of the Malayan Peninsula. 



(1870) Pfc. IT, 77. A small sparingly prickly tree with simple stem 

 slightly branched near the top ; young shoots covered with tawny or 

 rusty scurfy tomentum. Leaves crowded at the ends of the stem and 

 branches, large, 9-15 in. across, coriaceous, rotund in general outline, 

 cordate at the base, palmately lobed about half or more than half way 

 down; the lobes 5-9, oblong, or sometimes sinuate towards the base, acumi- 

 nate, serrate ; upper surface glabrous, lower sub-glabrous ; the petiole 

 10-20 in. long, without prickles, scurfy-tome ntose when young, ultimately 

 glabrous, hiflorescence rusty-toraentose, terminal, panicled, the ultimate- 

 branches bearing many-flowered bracteolate umbels ; flowers '15 in^ 

 across, their pedicels *5-*7 in. long; rim of calyx narrow, irregularly 

 toothed. Fruit broadly elliptic or turbinate, terete, "3 in. long, as large- 

 as a pea, crowned by the slender column of connate styles ; cocci 1 or 2, 

 with chartaceous pericarp, 1-seeded. Kurz For. Flor. Burma I, 537 ^ 

 Clarke in Hook, fil Flor. Br. Ind. TT, 735. Panax 'palmatum, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beiig. 21 ; Flor. Ind. II, 74. Hedera polycantha, Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 II, t. 190 ; Cat. 4907 B. 



This species is closely allied to B. Hainla, Seem., from which it 

 differs cliiefly in having leaves with deeper narrower more serrate 

 lobes, and also in having rusty instead of pale tomentum on the 

 young shoots and inflorescence. The two are in my opinion rather too 

 closely allied to be kept distinct as species. In his distribution, Wallich 

 issued both under the name Hedera polycantha and the number 4907. 



Pekak; Scortechini 17, 116; Bidley 3018; Kings Collector 2598. 

 DiSTRiB. Brit. India, along the base of the Himalaya; Assam and 

 Burma. 



Var. andamanica, lobes of leaves obovate-oblong, the edges nlmost 

 entire ; inflorescence a narrow panicle nearly as long as the leaves. 

 Araliopsis andamanica, Kurz in Andaman Report, App. B, 9. 



Andaman Islands ; Kurz, King's Collectors. 



10. Hederopsis, C. B. Clarke. 



A glabrous unarmed tree. Leaves J-3-foliolate ; leaflets lanceolate, 

 denticulate or nearly entire; base of petiole much dilated; stipules 

 inconspicuous. Umhels panicled ; bracts and bracteoles deciduous . 

 pedicels jointed close under the flowers. Calyx margined, somewhat 

 prominently 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 styles connate. Fruit berried, large, sub-globose, crowned bj' the stout 

 persistent style. Seeds 5-4 ; albumen ruminated. 



Hederopsis Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. India, II, 739. 

 Leaflets of the compound leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, narrowed at the base, nerves faint, length 3-5 in., breadth 1*6-2 



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