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Stamina 5, petalis alterna; filamenta filiformia ; anthers subrotundate. 
Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Ovula pendula. Stylus uni- 
eus, compressus; stigma obscure 2-lobatum. Drupa subglobosa, 2- 
loeularis. Semina solitaria. Albumen eequabile—Arbores aculeatze 
in Asia tropica et subtropica vegetantes, stipulis nullis, foliis alternis 
longe petiolatis palmato-5-lobis, lobis argute dentatis v. digitatim 
.5-8-sectis, segmentis dentatis, umbellis globosis longe pedunculatis 
in racemos v. panieulas dispositis involucratis, pedunculis pedicellisque 
compressis, floribus albidis. — Brassaiopsis, Dene. et Planch. Rev. 
Hort. 1854, p. 106 ; Planch. Hort. Donat. p. 8; Hedere, Panacis, Ka- 
lopanacis et 4ralie sp. auct. 
C. Koch (‘Wochenschrift,’ 1859, p. 364) has endeavoured to 
show that Brassaiopsis and Macropanaz are identical, but he had evi- 
dently overlooked that Brassaiopsis (of which Hedera glomerulata, 
Bot. Mag. t. 4804, is the type) has inartieulate pedicels, no caly- 
culus, and a very distinct habit. It is true that Miquel referred 
Hedera glomerulata to his genus Macropanaz ; nevertheless it does not 
agree with the generic character he furnishes, and is very different from 
M. oreophilum. Decaisne and Planchon, in their valuable paper on 
Hederacee, ascribe to their new genus Brassaiopsis two short styles, 
but there is only one, as in the absence of specimens may be seen 
from Hooker's very correct figure; and by a slip of the pen the 
island of Bourbon, instead of Java, is named as the native country 
of B. speciosa. 
l. B. Hainla, Seem. mss.—JHedera Hainla, Hamilton, mss. in Don, 
Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 187 (1825) ; De Cand. Prodr. iv. p. 253. H. polya- 
cantha, Wall. Cat. n: 4907 ; Wall. Plant. Asiat. t. 190 ; Don, Gen. Syst. 
iii. 399 ; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 431 and 432. H. scandens, De Cand. 
Prodr. iv. p. 264? Panax palmatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 14 (1832). 
P. curcifolia, Griff. Itinerary Notes, p. 145. Aralia palmata, Lour. 
Fl. Cochinch. p. 233? non Lam.  .4.scaudens, Poir. Suppl. i. p. 
419? 
Nepal (Hamilton! in Mus. Brit. ; Wallich ! n. 4907) ; moist valleys 
of Chittagong (Roxburgh) ; Bootan (Griffith! n. 2667), towards Oon- 
gar pria in forests, 56000 feet (Griffith! n. 697), Sikkim (Hook. 
fil. et Thoms. !). 
2. B. VENT Seem. mss.—Panaa ricinifolium, Sieb. et Zucc. in 
Abhandl. Bair. Akad. iv. 2, p. 198.—XKalopanaz x i Miq. 
