Pafuur.] Lxix. araliaceje (hiern). 29 



lon^. Flowers subsessile, glabrous ; pedicels j\ in. long, crowded. 

 Calyx and corolla brown. Fruit ? nol mature on the specimens. Pe- 

 tals calyptrate. 

 Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 1300 ft. alt., Mann! 



2. HEPTAPLEUKUM, Gartn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 942. 



Margin of the caljx annular with obsolete teeth. Petals 5 or 6, val- 

 vular. Stamens 6 or 6; anthers ovate or oblong. Epigynous disk 

 convex, in male flowers concave; styles usually 5 or (),^either free 

 or united at base into a column, or obsolete. Ovary 5- or more- 

 celled; cells 1-ovuled. Fruit drupaceous, ovoid or subglobose, 5- or 

 6-lobed in the dried state,. 5- or 6-celled ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds 

 laterally compressed ; albumen not ruminated. — Tall shrubs or trees. 

 Leaves compound, digitate, on lono- petioles, crowded near the ends of 

 the branches ; petioles long, dilated and clasping at the base ; stipules 

 adnate inside the petioles. Umbelluled racemes crowded in axils of 

 leaves at ends of branches; pedicels continuous with the flowers; 

 bracts membranous, caducous. — Astropnn/f:v, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 18C0, 

 170; SciadopanaXy Seem, in Rev. Heder. 49. 



A rather large genus, foun,d also in Tropical Asia and in Australia, &c. 

 Fieaflets more or less serrate ; cordate at the base. 

 Styles distinct from the base. Petioles not 6 in. long . . . \. H. ahyssinirvm. 

 Style lobed at the apex. Petioles nearly 12 in. long . . , . 2. H. elatum. 

 Leaflets entire, not or scarcely cordate at the base. 



Styles radiating in fruit and raised on a column about as long as 

 themselves. Flowers pedicelled. 

 Small tree. Umbellules 8-i2-flowered on pedicels ^-1 in. long 3. II. BarUri 

 Tree. ^ Umbellules 4-5-flowered, on pedicels about \ in. long 4. H. BaikL-i. 

 Climbing shrub. Umbellules about 10-flowered, on shorter 



pedicels . . ^ 5. ^. scandi iis. 



Stigmas scarcely raised above the wide convex disk. Flower 



capitulate 6. ^. Mannii. 



1. H. abyssinicnm, Bmth. et Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, i. 942. Glabrous. 

 Branches woody, J-J in. thicrk close to the extremities, covered witli 

 an irregular angular bark, transversely seamed. Petioles 4-5 in. lont^-, 

 crowded near the ends of the branches, faintly sulcate, terete ; stalks 

 of the leaflets 1-2 in. long; leaflets 7, 2-4 in. long, oval-ovate, 

 rounded at the base, much acuminate or caudate at the apex, crenute- 

 serrate, thinly coriaceous. Inflorescence 4-9 in. long ; primary pedi- 

 cels 7^-1 1 in. long, patent; secondary ^L._i in. long. Petals calyj)- 

 trate. Flowers polygamous. Bracts pubescent ; bracteoles lanceolate. 

 Styles 8 and short in male flower, 5 or 6 in female flower, recurved in 

 fruit, distinct from the base. Fruit |-J in. long. — Aralia abz/sshiicfi, 

 Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 836. Sciodaphyllum ahi/sshucum, 

 Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ii. 537, Miq. Ann. Lugd. Bat. i. 20. AMtypana^r 

 abyssinieunij Seem. Journ. Bot. 1865, 177. 



Nile laand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



