1188 THE STORY OF: PLANT LIFE 
hundred species, which are mainly found in the 
Tropics, inthe Indian and Malay regions,and America. 
In Gunnera the leaves are 8 ft. in diameter or as large 
as a cart-wheel, and like Rhubarb. 
These plants are trees, shrubs, or herbs. The Ivy 
is a climbing or trailing plant. 
Ginseng is derived from Panax quinquefolium, a 
medicine used by the Chinese being made from the 
roots, and allied species yield aromatic medicines, 
used by the natives of the Moluccas. The wood of 
some forms of Ivy yields also scents, or aromatic 
gums. Moschatel is known by its musky scent, and 
its single peduncles with four flowers below and 
one above, and the delicate ternate leaves and white 
soboles. 
There are five calyx lobes in the flower of Ivy, three 
in that of Moschatel, and in the former they are 
inserted on the ovary, and in the latter above the 
base of the ovary, beside which there are several other 
differences. 
The habit is that of a tree or climbing plant in Ivy, 
in Adoxa of a dwarf herbaceous plant with the 
Anemone habit. 
The leaves are usually alternate, large and com- 
pound in some foreign species, simple and entire, with 
lobes in Ivy, ternate in Adoxa.’ There are small 
stipules. The flowers are small and whitish, often 
massed into large compound inflorescences. The 
flowers are regular, in umbels or capitate, with five 
_ lobes. The calyx is small and short-toothed or lobed, 
