Aralia.'] LXXI. ARALIACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) 721 



SECT. III. Kedereae. Petals valvate. Albumen ruminated. 

 * Ovary l-celled. 



Leaves pinnate or undivided 11. ARTHROPHYLLTJM. 



** Ovary Z-celled. 



Pedicels continuous. Styles distinct 12. HETEROPANAX. 



Pedicels continuous. Styles combined , . . 13. BRASSAIOPSIS. 



Pedicels jointed. Styles combined , ... 14. MACROPANAX. 



*** Ovary 5-4r celled ; styles combined. 

 t Leaves simple lobed or pinnate. 



Pedicels continuous 15. HEDERA. 



Pedicels jointed 16. HEDEROPSIS. 



ft Leaves digitate. 

 Tree. Leaflets ciliate 17. GTAMBLEA. 



SECT. IV. Plerandreae. Petals valvate. Stamens 20-50. 

 Petals united, falling off in a cap 18. TUPIDANTHUS. 



1. ARALIA, Linn. 



Herbs shrubs or small trees, glabrous hairy or prickly. Leaves alternate 

 or whorled, digitate pinnate or compound-pinnate ; leaflets serrate or nearly 

 entire; stipules not prominent. Umbels solitary or in racemes or panicles 

 rarely in compound umbels; pedicels jointed close under the flower or not. 

 Fl&wers often polygamo-monoecious. Calyx margin truncate or 5-toothed. 

 Petals 5, ovate, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-5-celled ; styles 2-5, 

 free or shortly connate at base (at least in the seed-producing flowers). Fruit 

 45-celled 4-5-angular, or subglobose 2-3-celled. Albumen uniform. DISTBIB. 

 Species 30 ; extending from India and Malaya to Japan and North America. 



SECT. I. Ginseng". Herbs 1-2 feet with a whorl of digitate leaves. 

 Styles 2-3. Fruit red or red and black, shining, globose, subdidymous. 



1. A. Pseudo-ginseng*, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 936; leaflets lanceolate 

 with scattered bristles especially on the upper surface. Panax Pseudo-ginseng, 

 Wall PL As. Rar. t. 137, Cat. 3730 ; C. A. Mey. in Gang. Repert. Pharm. $ 

 Chem. 1842, p. 525, ivithjig. ; Seem. Rev. Heder. 99. 



NIPAL, SIKKIM, and BHOTAN, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., frequent. KHASIA MTS., alt. 

 5000 ft. ; H. /. $ T. 



Rootstock horizontal, tuberous or tuberiferous. Stem 6-15 in., erect, smooth, ter- 

 minated by a whorl of leaves ; the scale at its base deciduous or persistent. Leaflets 

 5 rarely 3, 2-6 by -! in., acuminate often caudate, rounded or tapering at the base, 

 closely serrate or deeply doubly serrate, glabrous except the scattered bristles; 

 petiole 1-6 in., glabrous; petiolules 0-1 in. Peduncles shorter or longer than the 

 leaves, glabrous or nearly so, solitary or 2-4, simple or with 2-5 umbellate heads ; 

 pedicels -1 in., pubescent or puberulous; bracteoles in., narrow lanceolate-linear. 

 Flowers polygamo-monoecious ; styles in the male flowers sometimes united nearly to 

 their summit. Fruit red, or half-black half-red. 



Doubtfully separable from the true Ginseng of Japan, Panax Ginseng, C. A. 

 Mey. I.e. 524, which differs by having broader, more obovate, less bristly leaves, and 

 not by the characters relied on by C. A. Meyer. The Indian examples show every 

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