Heptapleurum.] LXXI. ARALIACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 729> 



remote serratures or shallow lobes ; petiolules 1 in. Panicle much as iuH.elatum, 

 nearly glabrous or more or less pubescent or stellately woolly. 



5. XX. ro stratum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ii. p. 122 ; leaflets glabrous lanceo- 

 late or elliptic narrowed at both ends coriaceous, tertiary nerves obscure above, 

 petals glabrous or nearly so. Hedera rostrata, Wight Ic. t. 1013. Agalma 

 rostratum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 25. 



NILGHIBIS ; Wight ; Gardner, alt. 7000 ft. ; C. B. Clarice. (The Sikkim locality 

 given by Seeman is an error.) 



A small branched tree. Leaflets 4 by 1^-2 in., entire or denticulate; petiolules 

 f-1 in. Panicle 8 in., branches often bearing one umbel each only ; bracts shortly 

 ovate, persistent ; pedicels ^-f in., glabrous or stellately pubescent, springing from 

 a dense tuft of permanent bracteoles. 



VAE. micrantha ; flowers and fruit smaller, pedicels and bracteoles glabrous. 

 Sisparah, Nilghiri Mts., Wight. 



tf Pedicels usually racemed, 



6. XX. racemosum, Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 214 ; leaflets glabrous entire nar- 

 rowed at both ends, pedicels glabrous or often rusty stellately woolly. Hedera 

 racemosa, Wight Ic. t. 1015 ; Thwaites Enum. 132. Agalma racemosum, Seem.. 

 JRev. Heder. 24. 



NILGHIKIS; Gardner; Cancor, alt. 6000 ft., Wight. ANAMAIXAY MTS. alt. 

 3000-5000 ft. ; Beddcme. CEYXON, alt. 3000-5000 ft. ; Thwaites. 



A large tree. Leaflets 6 by 2^ in., elliptic or lanceolate, subobtuse or cuspidate,, 

 coriaceous, tertiary nerves above obscure; petiolules often 1-1 5 in. Panicle 

 6-12 in., the ends of the branches bracts and pedicels rusty pubescent while young; 

 bracts shortly ovate, persistent ; pedicels ^ in. Flowers at first often umbelled, the 

 fruits usually distinctly racemed. Closely allied to the preceding species : some of 

 Thwaites' specimens are not racemed at all, even in fruit. 



STFBGEN. II. Eu-Heptapleurum. Styles short, not connate into a 

 narrow cylindric column. 



* Leaves 1- (rarely 1-3-) foliolate. 



7. XX. emarg-inatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 44; leaves cuneate-oblong- 

 emarginate. panicles 1-2 in., umbels 2-5-flowered. Hedera emarginata, Moon 

 Cat. PI. Ceylon ; Thwaites Enum. 132. 



CEYLON, up to 4000 ft. ; Walker, Thwaites. 



A climbing glabrous shrub. Leaflets f-lj by f-f in., narrowed at the base, sub- 

 sessile, broadest at the very summit and there distinctly emarginate or 2-lobed, 

 nerves on both surfaces raised. Pedicels 5 in., spreading ; bracts or early fugacious. 

 Flowers very small, white tinged red ( Thwaites). 



** Leaves simply digitate ; leaflets usually 5-7. 



t Reticulating nerves prominent on the upper surface of the leaflets. 



8. XX. v^Quiosum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 44; leaflets oblong or elliptic- 

 acute usually oroadest below the middle. Brand. For. FL 249 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 i. 538. H. ellipticum, Seem. Heder. 43. Paratropia venulosa, W. fy A. Prodr. 

 377; Wight III. t. 118. P. elliptica and macrantha, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 756. Hedera venosa, Wall. Cat. 4923. H. terebinthacea, Wall. Cat. 492O 

 partly. Aralia digitata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 107. Sciadophyllum 

 ellipticum, Blume Bijd. 878; DC. Prodr. iv. 260,Rheede Hort. Mai. vii. 

 t. 28. Araliad sp. 18, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



