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REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER HEDERACEA. 
By BregrHOLD Seemann, Pu.D., F.L.S. 
(Concluded from Vol. VI. p. 142.) 
XVII. On THE Genus MARALIA. 
(Pirate LXXX.) 
Bentham and Hooker fil. (* Genera Plantarum’) referred my genus 
Oligoscias to Panax, from which, as limited by me, it differs by its 
pentacarpous fruit and valvate petals. It proves, however, to be iden- 
tical with the little-known genus Maralia, Petit Thouars. 
V. Maratia, Petit Thouars, Nov. Gen. Madag. p. 13, n. 43; 
De Cand. Prodr. iv. p. 255.— Pedicelli articulati. Flores ecalyculati, 
hermaphroditi. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbo 5-dentato. Petala 5, 
ovato-triangularia, libera, :estivatione valvata. Stamina 5, filamentis 
brevibus, antheris oblongis. Ovarium inferum, 3-5- bos loculis 
l-ovulatis. Styli 3-5, filiformes, omnino liberi, stigmatibus ped 
formibus. Drupa ipu ovato- oblonga, 3—5-pyrena. Albumen ru- 
minatum.—Frutex Mad is, inermis, foliis exstipulatis ponini 
2—9-jugis cum impari, petiolis supra canaliculatis, foliolis lateralibus 
sessilibus, terminali petiolulato, infimis subrotundatis Sean OREA 
bus, supremis ovatis v. ellipticis, basi acutis, acuminatis, 3—5-setaceo 
dentatis ; umbellis 5—8-floris, longe peduneulatis ; pedicellis filiformi- 
us (6-8 lin. long.) ; floribus ee albis.— Oligoscias, Seem. 
Journ. of Bot. iii. p. 179. Species unica 
1. M. Madagascariensis, De Cand. |. c. iyoni Madagascariensis, 
Seem. Journ. of Bot. iii. p. 179. Aralia Maralia, Schult. Syst. vi. 
p.704. Panax Maralia, Dene. et Planch. in Rev. Hortie. 1854, p. 105. 
—Madagascar, Betroun, Tamatave and Antananarivo, on clay hills 
2000-3000 feet above the sea. (Meller! Lyall! n. 232, and others.) 
EXPLANATION or Prats LXXX., represen a | Maralia Madagascariensis, 
from arene obbgingly lent by Dr. Hooker — Fig de Miei lower-bud. 2. Open 
flowe Sta 4. Ovary, far adva b. me, cut across, 6. 
8 iioi: eel wit! th nie on right-hand side of 6, Maple 
XVIII. On toe Genus ELEUTHEROCOCCUS. 
XXXVI. Evevrnerococcus, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 132; Bth. 
et Hook. f, Gen. i i. p. 941. — Pedicelli artieulati. Flores ecalyeüliti 
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