Pentapanax.'] LXXI. ARALIACE-E. (C. B. Clarke.) 725 



A tree 30-50 ft., or scandent shrub. Leaflets 3 by 2 in., 3 (or 5 in Wight's No. 

 1204), base rounded or cordate; petiolules often i-f in. Panicles 3-6 in., with 3-6 

 heads ; pedicels ^-| in., glabrous cr puberulo-pubescent. Styles combined nearly to 

 their summits. Fruit ^ in. long and broad subcampanulate ; ribs not prominent. 



The typical form of the fruit in the Nilgherries, accurately described and figured 

 by Wight and Beddome, differs from the Himalayan, but the large series of examples 

 bridges over the gap completely. 



VAR. umbellatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 22 (sp.) ; fruit oblong strongly-ribbed, disc 

 often elongate-conical, pedicels glabrous or pubescent. P. Leschenaultii, Seem. Rev. 

 Heder. 22, partly; Brand. For. Fl. 248. Hedera fragrans, Don Prodr. 187, not of 

 Eoxb. Panax bijugum, Wall. Cat. 4937 ; C. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 386, &c. Temperate 

 Himalaya from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 4000-10,000 ft.; common. Khasia Mts., alt. 

 3000-5000 ft. Resembles the type except in the fruit: the pedicels are either 

 glabrous, or more or less pubescent. Seemann has marked as P. Leschenaultii 

 examples with pubescent pedicels. ' 



3. ARALIDIUIV2, Miq. 



Leaves large, simply piunatifid, glabrous. Panicles male or hermaphrodite, 

 males much larger and more compound ; pedicels jointed close under the 

 flowers ; flowers small. Calyx-teeth 6, triangular. Petals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5. Ovary 4-3-celled ; styles 4-3, separate, linear-cylindric, stiguia- 

 tose on all sides. Fruit 1-seeded. DISTEIB. Species 2, Malayan. 



1. A. pinnatifidum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 763, t. 13; leaves 12-18 

 in. lobed nearly (sometimes quite) to the rachis, panicles upwards and flowers 

 tawny-pubescent. 



MALACCA : Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2702) ; Maingay No. 676. 



Lobes of the leaves 4-6 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate. Male panicles 15 by 12 in., 

 compound, with innumerable minute pubescent flowers. Petals pubescent. Young 

 ovary with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. Fruit (unripe) \ in. long. Maingay notes 

 "Drupes 1-seeded, cotyledons crumpled leafy." The albumen in the imperfectly ripe 

 seeds seems much ruminated. The seeds of the closely allied A. dentatum are 1 in. 

 long. 



3.* PANAX, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves pinnate or digitate rarely undivided; leaflets 

 entire or serrate. Umbels panicled (in Indian species), pedicels jointed close 

 under the flowers. Flowers often polygamous. Calyx-limb 5-toothed or nearly 

 entire. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled ; styles 2 

 (rarely 3), distinct. Fruit subcompressed or globose, 2- (rarely 3-) seeded, 

 carpels rounded on the back. DISTRIB. Species 25, Polynesian, Australian, 

 and Malayan, extending to Mantchuria and Tropical Africa. 



1. P. fruticosum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 254; leaves tripinnate, 



Wight __. .. _ , 



Bat. i. pt. i. ^5 ; Seem. Rev. Heder. 70. Humph. Amb. iv. t. 33. 



Throughout the warmer parts of INDIA, cultivated. DISTRIB. Malaya and Poly- 

 nesia, cultivated ; wild state unknown. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. Leaflets 2-3 by - in., but varying greatly in size and 

 irregular in shape, usually much setose-serrate or incised, sometimes nearly ent 

 Panicles 3-6 in. ; bracts minute, deciduous ; pedicels H in - Fruit ff m - lon anc 

 broad and ^ in. thick ; styles persistent recurved. 



