REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER HEDERACER. 139 
Drupa depresso-sphzrica, suberosa, 3-4-pyrena. Albumen eequabile. 
—Herba perennis, regionibus subantarcticis et Nova Zelandia inhabi- 
tans, inermis, tota setis mollibus laxis obsita, foetida; foliis (maximis) 
stipulatis longe petiolatis orbiculari-reniformibus basi profunde cor- 
datis marginibus multilobatis; umbellulis compositis ; involucris folia- 
ceis; floribus densis; drupis atris nitidis, grana piperis magnitudine. 
— Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. i. p.95.  Aralie sp., Homb. et Jacq. Species 
unica : 
l. S. polaris, Dene. et Planch. l. c. ; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. i. p. 95; 
A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 716.—<Aralia polaris, Homb. et Jacq. Vey- 
age au Pôle Sud, t. 2, sine descript. ; Hook. f. Fl. Ant. p. 19; Hand- 
book, Fl. N. Zeal. i. p. 100. Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 144.—GEOGR. 
Distr. Southern Island of New Zealand (Lyall!) ; Lord Auckland’s 
Islands (J. D. Hooker! Dr. Holmes!) ; Campbell's Islands (J. D. 
Hooker !), covering large tracts. 
This genus, on account of the quincuncial eestivation of its corolla, 
belongs to Araliacea. 
On THE GENUS TRIPLASANDRA. 
TRIPLASANDRA, Seem. (gen. nov.).—Pedicelli inarticulati. Flores 
anthere oblonge. Ovarium 5-6-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Stig- 
mata 5-6, punctiforma, stylopodio brevi conico imposita. Drupa 
baccata, ovata-oblonga, 5—6-angulata. Albumen eequabile.—Arbor 
Hawaiiensis ; foliis exstipulatis, pinnato-5-9-foliolatis, foliolis carnosis 
oblongis v. ovalibus obtusis integerrimis; umbellis compositis cymosis. 
Species unica : 
l. T. Oahuensis, Seem.— Gastonia (?) Oahuensis, A. Gray, Bot. 
Wilkes, i. p. 726; Horace Mann, Enum. Hawaiian Plants, p. 169. 
Nomen vernac. Hawaiense, fide Mann, “Ohe mauka."— Hawaiian or 
Sandwich Islands (U. S. Expl. Expedition! ; H. Mann!; Hille- 
brand !). 
Asa Gray, not having fertile flowers when he first described this 
