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mum. It has a simple stem and a dark-gveeu bark striped with brown ; 
all the leaves are quite simple. Kegel enumerates two varieties of 
P. coriaceumy viz. a. latifoUum (leaves |— | of an inch broad, the older 
ones with rather larger teeth, Aralia latifolia^ Hort.,) and /8. angmtU 
folium (Aralta integrifolla^ Hort., leaves -| of an inch broad, with 
very small teeth). Panax pentadactyloUy Dene, et Planch. Hort. Donat. 
p. 10 {^Aralla pentapltylla et A, qulnqnevulnera^ Hort.), and P. tridac- 
tf/lon^ Dene, et Planch. L c. {Aralia triphylla and A, t7'i/oliata, 'Hort. )^ 
and Aralia Iteteromorpha are also garden varieties of tliis variable 
species. 
2. P. LeHSoni, C. Koch, Wochenschrift, 1859, p. Z%Q.— Panax (?) 
Lessoni, De Cand. Prod. iv. p. 253. Cussonia Lessoni, A. "Rich. PI. 
N. Zeh p. 2S5, t. 32, Aralia tr!/oUa, Banks et Sol. mss,; Parkinson's 
Drawings X.Zeal. Plants, 1. 103, 104 (ined,). Aralia Lessoni, Hook. fil. 
PL N. Zel. i. p. QQ. — New Zeahmd, in woods. (Banks and Solander ! 
in Mus. Brit.) 
XXV. Oligoscias, Seem. (gen. nov.) — Pedicelli articulati. Flores 
calycnlati, hermaphroditi. Calyx tubo turbinate, limbo 5-dentato. 
Petala 5, ovato-triang-nlaria, 1-nervia, libera. Stamina 5, filaraentis 
brevibus, antheris oblongis. Ov^ariura inferura, 4-5-1oca]are, loculis 
1-ovnlatis. Styli 4-5, erecti, omnino liberi, stigmatibus 2-fidis. 
Drupa baccata, subglobosa, 4-5-py\'ena. Albumen rmninatnm. 
Prutex Madagascaricnsis, inermis, foliis exstipulatis pinnatis 2-3-jugi3 
cnm imparl, petiolis supra canaliculatis, foliolis lateralibus sessilibus, 
terminali petiolulato, itifimis subrotundatis substipulseforraibus, snpre- 
mis ovatis basi acutis v. acuminatis, S-S-setaceo-deiitatis; umbellis 
5-8-8oris, simplicibus v. compositis; pedicellis filiformibus (6-8 lin. 
long,) ; floribus drupisque albis- Species unica : 
1. O, Madagasca7'iensl3^ Seem. (sp. Jiov.) — Madagascar, Betroun, 
Tamatave and Antanauarivo, on clay hillsj 2000-3000 feet above the 
sea. (Meller! Lyall ! n. 232, and others.) 
A transverse section of the albumen presents almost the same cross- 
shaped figure as that of Sciadopanax, though not quite so regular as in 
that genus. 
XXVI. PoLYSciAS, Porst. Pedicelli articulati. Flores cal^cu- 
lati, hermaphroditi. Cabjx tubo turbinato v. hemisphserico, limbo 
minute 5-8-dentato. Petala 5-8, vulgo 5, ovato-triangularia, 1-nervia, 
libera, aestivatione valvata. Stamina 5-8, vulgo 5, antheris oblongis. 
