Stilbocarpa. | ARALIACER, 227 
1. S. polaris, A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 714.—Forming 
large rounded masses 3-5 ft. in diam., more or less bristly in all its 
parts. Rhizome prostrate, 2-3 ft. long, thick and fleshy, annulate. 
Stems much branched below, stout, 1-14in. diam., grooved, succu- 
lent, with a heavy rank smell when bruised. Leaves bright-green, 
9-18 in. diam., orbicular-reniform, thick and fleshy, bristly on both 
surfaces, plaited or rugose, margins many-lobed and sharply 
toothed, veins flabellate ; petiole 12-24 in. long, erect, semi-terete ; 
sheath amplexicaul, produced above into a leafy lobed or laciniate 
membranous ligule. Umbels large, terminal and axillary, com- 
pound. Flowers very numerous, +in. diam., waxy-yellow with a 
purplish centre, shining. Fruit the size of a small peppercorn, 
globose with a flattened and hollowed apex, black, brilliantly 
shining.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 100; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 218. 
Aralia polaris, Homb. et Jacq. Voy. aw Pole Sud, Bot. t. 2, Phanerog. ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.i.19; Ic. Plant. t. 747. 
AUCKLAND, CAMPBELL, ANTIPODES, AND MAcqQuariE IsLtAnps: Not un- 
common. December-January. 
2. ARALTA, Linn. 
Perennial herbs or shrubs, glabrous or setose or prickly. Leaves 
alternate, rarely simple, usually digitate or pinnate or pinnately 
decompound. Umbels solitary or in racemes or panicles, rarely 
compound ; pedicels usually jointed under the flowers. Flowers 
polygamo-moneecious. Calyx-margin truncate or 5-toothed. Pe- 
tals 5, slightly imbricate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-d-celled; styles 
2-5, free or connate at the base, at length spreading. Fruit 
_ 3-6-celled and 3-5-angular, or subglobose and 2-3-celled. 
A well-known genus of about 30 species, mainly natives of the Northern 
Hemisphere, stretching from Malaya and India to Japan and North America. 
1. A. Lyallii, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 295. 
—A stout herb 1-4ft. high, often forming extensive patches. 
Rhizome prostrate or arcuate, creeping. Stems stout, as thick as 
the little finger, pilose. Leaves radical, crowded, 6-18in. diam. 
or more, orbicular-reniform, lobed and deeply toothed, usually 
glabrous and shining above, more or less clothed with soft bristles 
beneath; petiole terete, fistulose, with a broad membranous 
sheathing ligule at the base. Umbels large, compound, forming 
globose masses 6-12in. diam. Flowers moncecious or polyga- 
mous, +in. diam., reddish-purple. Calyx-margin truncate. Petals 5, 
linear or linear-oblong. ONY 2-celled, crowned by two broad 
and fleshy stylopodia; styles 2, free. Fruit globose, din. diam., 
2-celled, black and shining; seeds 1 in each cell.—Students’ Fl. 216. 
Stilbocarpa Lyallii, Armst. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 336. 
Var. robusta, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 216.—More robust and less pubescent. 
Leaves with the teeth "strongly mucronate; petioles plano-convex, solid or 
nearly so. Flowers smaller, with yellowish petals. 
