722 LXXI. ARA.LIACE.2E. (C- B. Clarke.) \_Aralia* 



form of rootstock and tuber attributed specially to P. Ginseng and to P. quinque- 

 folius, Linn. : the scale at the base of the stem is persistent even in some of 

 Wallich's specimens. 



2. A. bipinnatifida, C. B. Clarke-, leaflets pinnatifid the lobes serrate 

 or bipinnatifid pilose above. Panax bipmnatifidum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 100. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8500-11,500 ft.; J. D. H. ; C. B. Clarke. 



Generally resembles A. Pseudo-ginseng, and perhaps not distinct. Leaflets 

 petioluled or sessile, lanceolate acuminate or caudate. Rootstock horizontal, quite 

 like that of some examples of A. Pseudo-ginseng, and doubtless, like it, produces- 

 tubers not rarely. 



SECT. II. Shrubs, erect or scandent, or small trees. Leaves digitate. Styles 

 5 (or 4). Fruit carpels 5-4, ridged on the back. 



3. A. cissifolia, Griff.; Seem. Rev. Heder. 91; leaflets 5 rarely 3 

 lanceolate narrowed at each end, a tuft of fulvous hairs or spines often at the 

 apex of the petiole, umbels simple. Araliad sp. 4, Herb. Ind. Or., H.f. 8f T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Sikkim, and Bhotan. 



A shrub 10 ft. or erect small tree, branches with short strong deflexed prickles 

 which are sometimes clustered at the nodes. Petioles 5 in., glabrous or pubescent, 

 often with scattered prickles; stipules large, ovate, often deciduous; leaflets 2-3 in., 

 lanceolate, acuminate, pilose above ; petiolule 0-^ in. Peduncles 2-5 in., solitary, 

 pubescent upwards, carrying each one many-flowered umbel ; bracteoles among the 

 pedicels few, linear, small. Fruit glabrous. 



VAR. 1. normalis ; a small tree, branchlets and leaves prickly, leaflets fulvous- 

 pubescent beneath doubly serrate, pedicels pubescent. Sikkim; alt. 9000-13,000 ft., 

 Lachen, J. D. H. Bhotan ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2669). 



VAE. 2. scandens, Edgew. in Herb.; scandent (?) without spines, glabrous, leaflets 

 simply serrate. Kiimaon ; alt. 9000 ft., Madhari Pass, Strachey $ Winterbottom. 



SECT. III. Eu-Aralia. Erect lax shrubs. Leaves 1-3-pinnate. Styles 

 5 (or 4). Fruit carpels 5-4, ridged on the back. 



4. A. cachemirica, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 72, t. 81; unarmed no 

 leaflets at the points of division of the leaf-rachis, leaflets elliptic shortly 

 acuminate base often rounded minutely fulvo-pubescent on the nerves above. 

 Seem. Rev. Heder. 91 ; Brand. For. Fl. 248. A. macrophylla, Lindl. in Bot. 

 Reg. 1844, Misc. 73. Panax tripinnatum, Wall. Cat. 4934 ; O. Don Gen. Syst. 

 iii. 384. P. decompositum, Wall. Cat. 4935; DC. Prod. iv. 255. Araliad sp. 

 43, Herb. Ind. Or., H.f. $ T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from SIKKIM, alt. 7000-8000 ft., to KASHMIR, alt. 9000- 

 12,000ft.; frequent. 



A lax shruli, 5-10 ft. Leaves 1-3-pinnate, ultimate pinna with 5-9 leaflets, 

 petiolules 0-^ in. ; leaflets 3 by 1| in., often cordate at base, usually simply regu- 

 larly serrate, pilose above, glabrous or hispid on the nerves beneath- Umbels in 

 elongate panicles a foot long, but many smaller panicles occur ; bracts |- in., few, 

 lanceolate, or sometimes leaf-like 1^ in.; panicle-branches and pedicels pubescent. 



5. A. zualabarica, Bedd, Fl. Sylv. ii. 121, and Anal. Gen. t. 15; 

 aculeate, panicle-branches and pedicels glabrous or sparingly bristly, bracts 

 in. narrow lanceolate acute ciliate. 



WESTERN GHATS, from MALABAR to TRAVANCORE : common on the Carcoor Ghat 

 in Wynaad; Beddome. 



A large shrub, nearly glabrous, with scattered weak prickles and bristles. Leaves 



