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of Ceylon at altitudes of 2000-5000 ft. (after BzppowE); but not found in 
Himalaya. 
6. Oreopana:x Drxowr. et Pr. 
Oreopanax formosana Havara Fl. Mont. l'ormos. p. 108. — Arborescent 
shrub, branches einereo-stellato-tomentose or adpressingly pilose. Leaves ample 
long petiolate, petioles at first adpressingly stellately pilose, at last subglabrous, 
1-2-times longer than blades, base dilated, stipules slightly prominent acute, 
connate to the base of the petioles, blades broadly orbieular in outline 20 
em. lone 29 em. broad or smaller, base broadly truncate or cordately truncate, 
marein obsolete 3-5-lobate or erossly irregularly dentate, teeth acute, sinuate 
between the teeth, 5—7-nerved, above subelabrous, veins impressed, beneath 
densely covered by stellate hairs, veins and veinlets prominent. —Flower- 
heads eorymbose-panieulate. Panicles terminal, 15 em. long, as long as petioles, 
13 em. broad, densely covered by hairs, (hairs stellate or simple), branches 
alternate, divarieate at / an obtuse angle, heads  peduneulate,  peduncles 
opposite, ternate, or alternate, braets at the base of peduneles broadly 
ovate 4mm.long:  braecteoles seale-shaped, thick 3 under each flower, 
one of them larger broadly ovate 3 mm.long, 2-latera] ones smaller 
opposite eovered by long dense haiss, at the same time bearded. — Heads 
subelobose, 6—7 mm.in diameter, nearly 15-flowered, 2-times longer than 
peduneles. — Flowers all villose, sessile, buds subturbinate 23 mm. long. 
Calyx margin obsolete dentate. ^ Petals 5 valvate, inside glabrous ovately 
triangular, 11 mm.long or longer deciduous.  Stameus 5, filaments short, 
anthers oblong; dise expanded. —Ovary 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled, styles 2, short 
distinet, erect, stigma terminal. Fruits broadly globose, 4J mm.long 5 mm. 
broad smooth, by abortive 1-seeded, compressed, tomentose drupaceous, styles 
persistent, very reeurved. — Seeds ovoid subtriqueter 4 mm.long, albumen 
ruminate. IXmbryo near hilum, minute. 
Har. PBatainnkei, Mt. Arisan. 
It is stated in **BENTH. eb Hook. f. Gen. Pl. TI. p. 989 " that the 
ovary of the senus Oreopenez is 5-celled. — Dut this generie character 
is a little broadened in * Exar. ü PnawTL. Nat. Pfl-fam. IIL-8 p. 939" 
