74 REVISION OF THE XATUK-VL ORDER HEDERACE.fil. 
(Panax Maralia^ Dene, et Planch.). The plant figureJ Is not our 
Panax Maralia^ but a distinct species, collected at Nossibe by Boivin, 
and named Panax Boivmiy Dene. niss. in Herb, Par. According to 
Boivin, it was met with on the seashore at Ampambilava, August, 
1S51, and forms a tree 30-40 feet high, with few and shghtly divided 
branches, and the leaves crowded at their extremities. I enclose a leaflet 
and a few fruits of Panax Boivini, so that the identity may be well 
established. The true Maralia Madagascariensis •= Panax Maralia has 
coriaceous leaflets, veiy similar to those of certain Jasminece; the umbel- 
lules are composed of 3-5 flowers, and the fruit has from 3-5 style?. 
I regret that T cannot send more than a single leaflet for comparison." 
Sciadopanax seems to occupy the same position towards Maralia as 
does NotJiopanax towards Poli/scias {Eitpteron) ; it belongs to the di- 
carpous series, Maralia to the pentacarpous, whilst both have pinnated 
leaves, a similar inflorescence, and the same native country. It would 
be desirable to have a good figure and description o^ Maralia, which 
anybody living at Paris might easily furnish. Good flowering-speci- 
mens of Sciadopanax are also a great desideratum. 
XVIL Sciadopanax, Seem. (uov. gen.) Pedicelli articulati. Flores 
ecalyculati. Calyx tubo ovato, limbo obscure 5-dentato. Petala . . . 
Stamina . , , Ovarium inferura, 2.Ioculare, loculis 1-ovnlatis, Ovula 
pendula. Stigmata 2, stylopodio conlco imposita. Drupa ovato- 
cylindrica, exsueca, 10-costata, 8-vittata, 2-sperma, Semina crucia- 
tim 4-Ioba. Albumen sequabile. — Arbor Miulagascarieusis, 30-40t 
pedalis, glaber, sparsim ramosus, ramis teretibus, foliis alternis exsti- 
pulatis imparipinnatis, foliolis sessilibus v. breviter petiolulatis, ovatis 
acuminatis v. ellipticis integemmis, umbellulis racemoso-paniculatis. 
Species unica : 
1. A ^oiw.z, Seem. mss. (Tab, nostr. IXYll),— Panax Boivini^ 
Decne. mss. in Herb. Par. —Nossibe', Madagascar (Boivin!, in Herb, 
Kevv. et Par.). 
v 
IV, On the Genera with Sessile Stigmas. 
The Heder 
recently founded by Miquel (Osmoxylon), the other many years ago by 
Gaertner {IleptapleHrum), Oamoxylon is but imperfectly known. 
