724 LXXI. ARALIACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Pentapanax. 



Stamens 5. Ovary 5- (or 4-) celled ; styles 5-4, combined to tlie summit or 

 free for more than half their length. Fruit 5-4-celled and angled. Albumen 

 uniform. DISTEIB. Species 5, confined to continental India. 



* Flowers in panicled racemes. 



1. P. racemosum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 21 ; panicles unisexual elongate 

 oblong with racemes diverging from the rachis divaricately to its summit, 

 styles in the perfect flowers half- or more- free recurved. Araliad sp. 41. 

 Herb.Ind. Or., H.f.Sf T. 



SIKKIM ; alt, 6000-8000 ft. ; H. /. $ T. ; Gamble ; C. B. Clarke. 



A tree 60 ft. (ex H. /. cf T.), or a large climber (ex Gamble). Leaflets 4-9 by 

 2|-5^ in., usually 5-7, elliptic, acuminate, often rounded or cordate at the base, 

 sinuate-denticulate ; petiolules often ^-\ in. Panicles glabrous or villous, often 1 ft. 

 by 4-6 in., 3-9 clustered at the ends of the branchlets; branches 2-3^ in., ra- 

 cemed, flowering from their base ; pedicels 0- in., with a minute linear bract at 

 their bases. 8tyles in the male flowers combined nearly to their summit, in the per- 

 fect flowers 3-5, recurved free sometimes almost to the base. Fruit (not ripe) small, 

 subglobose ; probably less angula^' and elongate than that of P. Leschenaultii ; disc 

 not elongate-conical. 



2. P. subcordatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 22 ; panicle ovate acuminate, 

 racemes ascending, rachis unbranched upwards, styles combined nearly to their 

 summits. Hedera subcordata, Wall. Cat. 4917 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 394. 

 Araliad sp. 41, Herb. Ind. Or., H.f. fy T. partly. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; Wallich, Griffith, &c., not rnre. 



A small tree. Leaflets 3|-4^ by 2 in., usually 3-5, elliptic, acuminate, often 

 rounded or cordate at the base, sinuate-crenate ; petiolules often ^-| in. Panicles 

 8 in., with 3-8 racemed branches ascending from its lower half; panicle-branches 

 2-4 in., glabrous racemed flowering from their base; pedicels often in. (rarely 

 0-^- in.), with a minute linear bract at their bases. Flowers appear all perfect. 

 Fruit (nearly ripe) small, subglobose, obscurely 5-angled, disc not elongate-conical. 



** Flowers umbelled, umbels simply panicled. 



3. P. parasiticum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 22 ; leaflets 5 lanceolate entire 

 glaucous beneath. Brand. For. Fl. 248. Hedera parasitica, Don Prodr. 188 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 265. H. glauca, Wall. Cat. 4921 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 394. 

 Aralia parasitica. Ham. MS. 



NIPAL; Hamilton. KTJMAON; Wallich, Eoyle. Binsar, alt. 7,600 ft, Strachey $ 

 Winterbottom. 



Scandent, glabrous. Leaflets 2f by 1|- in. (or smaller), scarcely acuminate, base 

 rounded or subacute ; petiolules 0- in. Panicles 3-4 in., simple with 2-8 umbels ; 

 pedicels ^-f in., glabrous. Styles long, combined to near the top. Fruit (not ripe) 

 small, subglobose, obscurely 5-angled ; disc not elongate- conical. 



VAR. 1. khasiana; pedicels and rachis of panicle pubescent. Khasia Mts. ; 

 Myrung, alt. 5000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2680), Simons. 



4. P. Leschenaultii, Seem. Rev. Heder. 22 partly ; leaflets 3-5 elliptic- 

 acuminate bristle-serrate, fruit ovoid not very angular, disc not elongate- 

 conical; Redd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. 15. Panax Leschenaultii, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 254. P. micranthum, Wall. Cat. 4938 : Excl. A. Hedera Leschenaultii 

 and H. trifoliate, W. 8? A. Prodr. 377; Wight Ic. t. 307. Araliad sp. 39, 

 Herb.Ind. Or.,H.f.8f T. 



SIKKIM, alt. 6COO-1000 ft.; J. D. H. SOUTH DECCAN and CEYLON in the moun- 

 tains. BUEMA, Taong-dong ; Wallich. 



