136 araliacEjE. [Aralia. 



the branches of a large spreading panicle. Pedicels very short at the time 

 of flowering, near £ in. long when in fruit. 



Scarce in the island, Champion. Only known from South China. There is, however, a 

 Khasia species very similar in foliage, hut with fruits apparently much smaller. The A . dyso- 

 phylla from Java is also near, but the fruits are sessile or nearly so. We have too few speci- 

 mens of any of these forms to be able to judge how far these differences may be constant. 



2. PARATROPIA, Blume. 



Mowers unisexual. Umbels racemose or paniculate. Calyx-teeth minute 

 or scarcely perceptible. Petals 5 or 6, free, valvate in the bud. Stamens as 

 many, the filaments elongated, and anthers short. Styles united in a short cone, 

 with minute stigmas. Berry 5- or 6-celled. — Leaves digitately compound. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over tropical and eastern temperate Asia. 



1. P. cantoniensis, Hook, and Am. Bot. Beech. 189. A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves on long petioles ; leaflets 5 to 8, digitate, oval or elliptical, shortly 

 acuminate, glaucous underneath, the smaller veins between the principal pin- 

 nate ones scarcely perceptible, varying much in size ; the larger leaflets about 6 

 in. long, on petiolules of 2 in., the outer smaller ones of the same leaf not above 

 half that size. Racemes or narrow panicles, about 6 in. long, tomentose or 

 at length glabrous. Umbels pedunculate, consisting of about 10 to 12 flowers. 

 Pedicels about 2 lines long, or 3 lines when in fruit. Style conical, with 

 5 or 6 small sessile stigmas. Berry globular, 5- or 6-celled. 



Common in the island, Champion and others. Also on the adjoining continent, but not 

 known out of S. China ; the species is, however, very near the Indian P. venulosa, but with 

 the veins of the leaves less conspicuous, the flowers larger, and the berries not furrowed. 



3. DENDROPANAX, Dene. 



Flowers polygamous, not articulated on the pedicel ; the umbel resting on 

 the dilated apex of the peduncle. Calyx distinctly 5 -toothed. Petals 5, free, 

 valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, the filaments usually short. Styles united 

 at the base or nearly to the top. Fruit globular, succulent, 5 -celled. Albu- 

 men not ruminate, Leaves entire or lobed. Umbels terminal, solitary, or few 

 in a corymbose panicle. 



The genus was established for a few tropical American species, with which the two follow- 

 ing agree in every respect, except that the styles are more united in a cone, thus approaching 

 to the true Hedera, but it cannot remain in that genus as now limited by Decaisne and 

 Planchon, for the albumen is not ruminated. 



Leaves entire and 1 -nerved, or lobed and 2- to 3-nerved. Flowers 



about 1^ lines long 1.2). protea. 



Leaves entire, 3-nerved. Flowers scarcely 1 line long ....... 2. 2). parviflora. 



1 . D. protea, Benth. A handsome shrub, with the inflorescence and 

 globular berries of the common Hedera Helix, but very different in the vena- 

 tion of the leaves, and in the seeds. Leaves either entire with one midrib, 

 or deeply 2- or 3-lobed with as many prominent ribs, varying from broadly 

 elliptical to oblong or lanceolate, coriaceous and shining, the smaller veins 

 scarcely perceptible, from 1^ to 5 or 6 in. long, on petioles varying from 

 a few lines to 2 in. Peduncles terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together, \ to f 

 in. long, dilated at the top into a disk-like receptacle, bearing a simple nearly 



