Dendropanax.~\ araliace^:. 137 



globular .umbel of about 30 to 100 flowers. Petals inflexed and mucronate at 

 .the top. Styles united in a short cone. — Hedera protect, Champ, in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. iv. 122. 



In ravines of Mount Gough and Mount Victoria, Champion, Wright. Not received from 

 elsewhere. 



2. D. parviflora, Benth. A shrub resembling some forms of D. protect, 

 of which it may prove to be a variety, although very unlike its more usual 

 states. Leaves entire and 3 -ribbed, oval-elliptical or oblong and acuminate, 

 often almost opposite or whorled at the ends of the branches, varying in size 

 and length of petiole, the larger ones about 5 in. long and 2 in. wide. Inflo- 

 rescence of B. protect, but the flowers are smaller (scarcely 1 line long) and 

 even more numerous in the umbel, the petals with less of the inflected point, 

 the style-cone much longer, the hemes smaller. — Hedera parviflora, Champ, 

 in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 122. . 



Hongkong, Champion. No specimens have been seen from any other collector, and the 

 species is therefore as yet doubtful. 



Order LIIL CORNACEJE. 



Calyx adherent to the ovary, with a superior border either entire or with as 

 many teeth as petals. Petals 4, 5, or rarely more, valvate in the bud, in- 

 serted round an epigynous disk, or on the border of the calyx, rarely wanting. 

 Stamens as many, or rarely twice as many or more, inserted with the petals. 

 Ovary inferior, 1- or 2-celled, with one pendulous ovule in each. Style simple, 

 with an entire or scarcely lobed stigma. Fruit an indehiscent drupe, with a 

 1- or 2-celled nucleus. Seeds solitary, pendulous, with a fleshy albumen. 

 Embryo nearly as long as the albumen, straight ; the radicle superior and 

 shorter than the flat cotyledons. — Trees, shrubs, or very rarely herbs. Leaves 

 opposite or rarely alternate, entire or slightly lobed, without stipules. Plowers 

 in axillary or terminal heads, cymes, or corymbose panicles. 



A small Order, generally scattered over the globe, but most abundant in the temperate 

 regions of the northern hemisphere. 



Leaves opposite. Flowers and fruits united in a close head. Petals 4. 



Ovary 2-celled 1. Benthamia. 



Leaves alternate. Flowers in a loose cyme. Petals 6 to 10. Ovary 2-celled 2. Marlea. 

 Leaves opposite. Flowers dioecious, in a loose raceme or panicle. Petals 



4, Ovary 1-celled . 3. Aucuba. 



1. BENTHAMIA, Lindl. 



Flowers closely connected in globular heads, with an involucre of 4 petal- 

 like bracts. Calyx-border entire, or with 4 small teeth round the summit of 

 the ovary. Petals 4, valvate in the bud. Stamens 4. Style entire. Ovary 

 2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. Drupes united together in a 

 strawberry-like head, each with a hard, usually 1-seeded stone. — Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Plower-heads terminal. 



Besides the following species the genus contains but one other from the Himalaya. It is 

 nearly allied to the true Corni with capitate flowers, but in those the drupes are always 

 quite distinct. 



