138 Lxix. ARALIACE^ (hiern). [Pana<r. 



short, erect in flower, spreading in fruit, free from the base ; epi^ynous 

 disk more or less conical ; ovary 2-celled. Fruit 2-celled drupaceout^. 

 Albumen sulcate, not ruminated. Trees with impari-pinnately com- 

 pound leaves ; leaflets entire, opposite, sessile or subsessile. Inflo- 

 rescence panicied ; bracts and bracteoles caducous ; pedicels jointed at 

 the apex to the polygamous flowers. 



A considerable genus, inhabiting also Tropical and Eastern Asia, New Zealand, Aus- / 

 tralia, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. 



Leaflets glabrous, cordate at base, thinly coriaceous. 



Leaflets tomentose beneath 1. P.pinnatum. 



Leaflets cordate at the base, coriaceous 2. P. ferrugineam. 



Leaflets not cordate at the base, thinly coriaceous ..... 3. P.fulvum. 



1. P. pinnatum, A. Mich, in Fl. Ahjss. i. 335. A small tree with 

 glabrous leaves, crowded at the ends of the branches, 16 in. long, with 

 terete subsulcate petioles, nearly a foot long. Branchlets herbaceous, 

 thick, marked by the scars of fallen leaves, floccoso-tomentosc. Leaflets 

 11-19, oblong, acute, cordate at the base, glaucescent, 3—5 in. long, 

 the lower ones the longer. Umbellules many, arranged in racemes 

 (3-8 in. long, which are placed near together in a terminal inflo- 

 rescence, the maiii axis especially of which is covered with a farinose 

 pale yellowish tomentum. Bracteoles tomentose, stalks of the umbel- 

 lules \-\m. long; rays tV ^^' ^^°o> ovary striate, glabrous; disk 

 conical, surmounted by 2 short styles. Young fruit i in. long. — Aralia 

 pinnata, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, n. 1583. A. farinosa, Delil. in 

 Ferr. & Gal., Voy. Abyss, iii. 135, n. 72, teste Seemann. Nothopanax 

 fannoswiij Seem, in Rev. Heder. 72. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, fl. April, Schimper I Ferret and Galinier. 



2. P. ferrugineuxn, Hiern. Tree 20 feet high, covered at the 

 extremities and on underside of leaflets w^ith stellate tomentum. Leaves 

 pinnate, obovate-oblong, with terete midrib, 4 ft. long; leaflets 15, 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, much cordate at the base, subsessile, 

 2-6J in. long, coriaceous, shagreened above with depressed net-veins, 

 covered with ferruginous tomentum beneath, pinnately veined. Inflo- 

 rescence 15 in. long or more ; racemes of the inflorescence ranging up 

 to 4 J in. long ; flowers subsessile, glabrous, 1-3 together. Fruit 

 broadly ovate, glabrous, slightly emarginate at base, contracted along 

 middle line, ^-^ in. long and wide. 



Nile Z<and. Abyssinia, Ankober, Dr. Moth ! 

 Abyssinian name, Gingiro Womhir. 



3. P. falyum, Uiem. Tree 30-40 ft. high, covered at the extre- 

 mities and on underside of leaflets w^ith fulvous stellate tomentum. 

 Leaves pinnate, oblong, with terete midrib, a foot long or more ; pe- 

 tioles 4 in. long, half amplexicaul at base; leaflets 9, ovate-oblong, 

 suddenly acuminate, wide at the base but not cordate, shortly stalked, 

 3-6 in. long, stalks \-\ in. long, thinly coriaceous, dark green above. 

 Inflorescence 15 in. long; racemes of inflorescence ranging up to 1| in. 



