266 BEVISION OF THE NATUKAL ORBEK HEDEBACE^. 
petals, petals closely united, but distinguisliable witli the naked eye, 
and petals with difficulty distinguislied by the help of high micro- 
scopic powers, and reflected light, to petals so intimately joined as to 
seem to form one solid piece. At a future time^ wlieu materials bave 
more accumulated in our berbarium, and both flower and fruit of all 
the species shall have become known, it may, perbaps, be possible to 
use the corolla for generic purposes ; as its nature is never obscure or 
doubtful, one is always able to say of bow^ many paiis tbe corolla of a 
species is composed, 
* Flares umlellatl. 
1. S. Brotcnei, Spreng, Syst. i. p. 953. — Aralia SciadoplyUum^ 
Swartz, Prodr, 55. Hedera Sciadopliyllum^ Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 
p. 519. Vilk heptapjiylla, Linn. Mant. p. 212. — Woods of Jamaica 
(Massou I in Herb. Mus. Brit. ; Purdie ! Alexander Prior ! Marsh !)- 
3. S. spJifsrocoma, Benth. Bot. Sulpb. p, 102, — Isle of Gorgona, 
west coast of trop. America (Barclay ! in Herb. Benth.). 
3. S. pedicellaUim,'?o\-Y.'[>\Qi.\i. p. 176. — Acihiophjllum pedicel- 
laium^ Ruiz et Pavon, PL Per, iii. p. 73, t. 308. — Mountains about 
Mima, Peru (Pavon ! in Herb, Mus. Brit.). 
4. S, micrantJmm, Planch, et Linden, Araliac. p. 20. — Ocaiia, New 
Granada (Schlim, n. 1149). This is in Herb. Hook, under Scblim, n. 
699, if I have correctly determined the species. 
5. S. villosnm. Planch, et Linden, Araliac. p. 20. — New Granada 
(Scblim, n. 44). Corolla unknown. 
6. S. Goudotii, Planch, et Linden, Araliac, p. 21. — Bogota and 
province of Pamplona, New Granada (Goudot ! Schlim ! n. 3 et 5). 
7. 8, oxi/antJiuniy Planch, et Linden, Araliac. p. 21. — New Granada 
(Triana, n. 372). 
8. S. Quinduense, Be Cand. Prodr. iv. p. 261, — Aralia Qninduensis^ 
H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. v. p. 8, t. 417, f. 1 ; Planch, et Linden, 
Araliac. p. 22. — Nomeu vernac. "Pata de galUna." New Granada, 
Andes of Quindiu (Humboldt et Bonpland : Triana!), Antioquia 
(Purdie ! Jervise!). 
9. S. decaphjllum. Seem. (sp. nov.) ; glabrum; foliolis 9-10, 
obovato-oblongis retusis basi acutis, supra lucidis ; floribus umbellatis ; 
drupis 5-angulatis ; stylis 5 recurvis persisientibus coronatis. — Panax 
decaphyllum^ Sagot, Herb. — Frencli Guiana (Sagot! n. 916). — Leaflets 
