178 REVISION OF THE NATtJRAL ORDER HEDERACE.^, 
** Flores capitati, 
5. A. Manni^ Seem. — Taratropia 3fanni, Hook. fil. ; Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vi. p. 10.— Fernando Po. 5000 feet above the sea (Mann!). 
XXIV. PsEUDOPANAX, C. Kocli/ Wocheusclinft/ 1859, p. 336. 
Pedicelli articulati, apice incrassati. Flores ecalyciilati, polygami. 
Calyx tiibo obcoiiico, limbo obsolete denticulato. Fetala 5, ovato- 
triangularia, 1-nervia, sestivatione valvata. Stamina 5 ; antherse ovato- 
oblongse. Ovarium 5-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Slyli 5, basi co- 
adunati, apice liberi. Briipa baccata, globosa, 5-pyrena. Albumen 
sequabile. Frutices v. arbusculae Novse-Zclandiae, foliis alternis ex- 
Btipiilatis, simplicibus vel digitato-3-5-foliolatis, foliolis crassis coria- 
ceis oblongis vel linearibus, sinuato-dentatis, umbellis racemosis v. 
paniculatis, terminalibus. — Xylophylla^ Banks et Sol. mss. Aralice^ 
Ciissonioi et Panacis sp. Aiict. 
This genus is closely allied to CJieirodendron, Nutt,, the relationship 
having been suggested by De CandoUe ; but in Pseudopanax the calyx 
is not calyculatCj though the pedicel is swollen at the articulation, 
and the stigmas are not seated on a stylopodium but on five long 
styles, more or less free above the base. 
C. Koch thought that Panax simplex^ anomalum, GaudicJiaudii, p^d- 
lyphjUmn^ arhorum^ li^ieare, Edgerleyi, and Colensoi might possibly 
belong to Ps€i(dopanax, But if P, crassifoliiim be regarded as the 
type of the genus, those species, not being pentacarpous or having 
distinct styles, are inadmissible. 
1. P. cras^ifoVmm, C, Koch, Wochenschrift, 18S9, p. ^^^.—Aralia 
crassi/oUa, Banks et Sol. mss, ; Parkinson's Drawings of New Zealand 
Plants, tab. 101, 102 (ined.); Hook. Icon, Plant, t. 583, 584; Hook. 
fil. PI. New Zeal. i. p. 96. Panax coriacemUy Regel, Gartenflora, 1859, 
2 
p. 45. P. lonffisdmum, Hook. f. Handbook PI. New Zealand, i.-p. 10 
New Zealand (Banks and Solander; Porster! in Herb. Mus. Brit.)* 
This is a very variable plant. Parkinson, who accompanied Captain 
Cook in one of his voyages, has left drawings of two, varieties whicli 
he gathered in New Zealand, the one having crimson, the other purple 
petioles- In recent years, Continental nurseiymen have raised as many 
as twenty varieties, chiefly differing in the division, shape, and colour 
of the leaves. One of the oldest inmates of our gardens has been 
described as a separate species by Kegel (1859) under the name of 
Panax coriaceunty and by Hooker f. (1863) under that of P. lonfjlsBi^, 
