180 REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER HEDERACE^. 
Ovarium 5-8, vulgo S-loculareJoculis 1-oviilatis. Sl^U 5-8, erecti, an- 
gulati, demum recurvi, Brupa baccata, siibglobosa, 5-anguIata, 5 8- 
pyrena. Albumen . . , — Frutices v. arbusculse Asise et Polynesise 
tropicpe, inermes, glabrae, caule simplici v. parum ramoso, foliis exsti- 
pulatis imparipinnatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis v, subrotuudatis subin- 
tegen-imis v. creiiatis, floribus umbellatis v. siibcapitatis, in paniculas 
amplas dispositis. — PolysclaSy Porst. Gen. p. 63, t. 33 (1766); De 
Cand. Prod. vi. p. 257. Eupteron, Miq. in Bonplandia, 1856, p. 139. 
Hederce^ PanaciSy et NotJiopanacis sp. Auct. 
In the specimen of P, pinnata figured and described by Forster, 
there was an excess of petals and stamens, and this, together with the 
imperfect way in which the whole genus has been characterized, pro- 
bably accounts for Mi quel's failing to recognize it, establishing the 
genus JEuple^'on (absolutely identical with Forster's Polyscias), and, 
mistaking Forster's species for a NotJwpanax, describing it as Notho- 
panax tricochleatum in bis 'Supplement of the Dutch East Indian 
Flora.' Miquel, on that occasion, proposed to enlarge the generic cha- 
racter of Nothopanax, so that it includes 5-merous species, and those 
who follow him would have to call alt 'NoUiopanacia species of Poly- 
9cias, Polyscias being the older name. But by combining dimerous 
and pentamerous ovaries in the same genus, we should once more re- 
turn to the chaos from which the Hederacec^ are just emerging. De 
Candolle regarded Pohjscias nodosa as a species of Paratropia, but it 
differs from the otlier species he associated it with by its pinnate 
leaves and long recurved styles. The above generic character has 
been worked out from Forster's original specimens and drawings pre- 
served at the British Museum. 
* Flo7'€S pedicellati, 
1. P. pinnata, Forst. Gen. p. 64. t. 32; Prod. n. 518; Icon, 
(ined.) t. 298; De Cand. Prod, iv, p. Ul , —Pohjscias umbeUata, 
Spreng. ex Steud. Nom. Bot. p. 546, Payiax (?) Uayneanum, Wall. Cat. 
n. 4927,et. G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p, 383; Walp. Eep. il p. 429. 
Panax Forsteri, Dene, et Planch. Rev. Hort. 1854, p. 105. NotJio- 
panax tricocjileatim, Miq. FL Ned. Ind. Suppl. i. p. 840. Aralia 
Po/3^5c/«5, Spreng. in Erschein.— Tana (Forster! Anderson! in Mus. 
Brit.), Sumatra (Wallich ! n. 4927, et in Herb. Soc. Linn. Lond., 
Tcijsmann ! Diepenhorst ! in Herb. Hook,). 
