730 LXXI. ARALIACEJI. (C. B. Clarke.) [Heptapleurum. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical INDIA, from the NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA to 

 the SOUTH DECCAN and SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. Malaya and Tropical Australia. 



A small glabrous tree or climbing shrub. Leaflets 4 by 2 in., glabrous, entire, 

 acuminate, base subacute or rounded ; petiolules 1 in. or larger. Panicle small or 

 large; lateral branches sometimes 10 in., compound; bracts caducous, large, ovate, 

 hairy in the young panicle ; branchlets and pedicels glabrous or pubescent ; pedicels 

 ^-\ in. Buds varying in size, and the disc after flowering is very prominent or not. 

 The panicle branches become more delicate and the buds smaller in Burma, where 

 the plant is exactly Paratropia clliptica, Miq. ; while at Malacca the form collected 

 Ly Dr. Maingay (No. 680) is P. micrantha, Miq. 



VAR. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 4918 (sp.) ; leaflets 6-8 in. Amherst; Wallich. 



9. H. stellatum, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 472, t. 178; leaflets obovate ob- 

 tuse. Seem. Rev. Heder. 45. Hedera obovata, Wight Ic. t. 1011. H. Vahlii, 

 Thwaites Enum. 132. H. terebinthacea, Vahl Symb. iii. 42 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 265 j Wall. Cat. 4920 partly. Paratropia terebinthacea, Am. Pugitt. 20. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA ; near Coimbatore, Wight. NILGHIRI MTS., HohenacJcer 

 No. 1472. CEYLON, abundant up to 3000 ft. alt. ; Thwaites. 



Altogether resembles H. venulosum except as to the obtuse obovate leaflets, and 

 may be merely a South Indian and Ceylon form of it. 



10. H. subulatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 42 ; leaflets often 4-3 more 

 rarely 5 oblong or elliptic acuminate, panicles linear. Paratropia subulata, 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 22. 



PINANG and MALACCA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2690); Maingay, No. 681. 

 DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Branchlets glabrous. Leaflets 5j by 2^ in., narrowed at both ends, glabrous or 

 rarely with scattered stellate woolly hairs beneath, entire or with a few teeth. Panicle 

 in flower 10 by 1 in., in fruit nearly 3 in. broad, when young with scattered white 

 stellate wool ; bracts in., lanceolate, stellately white woolly, soon deciduous ; 

 branches usually very short, sometimes 1 in. ; pedicels \-% in,, always stellately to- 

 mentose when young. Fruit pentagonal, disc large, prominent. May this be a state 

 of H. heterophyllum?. 



ft Leaves coriaceous, tertiary nerves not prominent above. 



11. K. Wallichianum, C. B. Clarice (not of Seemann) ; pedicels -| in. 

 glabrous, buds in. broad. H. exaltatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 44. Paratropia 

 Wallichiana, W. $ A. Prodr. 377. Hedera exaltata, Thwaites Enum. 44. H. 

 Wallichiana, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108. -Araliad sp. 19, Herb. 2nd. Or. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA; Kurg, Wight. NILGHIRIS, alt. 4000-6000 ft., near 

 Canoor, C. B. Clarke. CEYLON, alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; Thwaites. 



A large glabrous tree. Leaflets 5-10 by 2^-4 in., oblong or elliptic, acute, rounded 

 at the base, very leathery. Panicle oblong, about 12 by 3 in. ; buds glabrous, unusually 

 large. Fruit crowned by the much enlarged pentagonal disc. 



12. H. khasianum, C. B. Clarke ; pedicels \ in. stellately tomentose 

 when young, buds ^ in. broad. H. Wallichianum, Seem. Rev.JtLeder. 44. 

 Araliad sp. 20, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



BHOTAN, Mishmee; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2694). KHASIA MTS., alt. 3000- 

 6000 ft. ; H.f. $T.; C. B. Clarke. 



Leaflets attain 11 by 3 in., usually much smaller, narrow-oblong or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, the base sometimes almost rounded, very coriaceous, entire ; pe- 

 tiolules often l in. Panicle with white stellate tomentum on the branches pedicels 

 and backs of the petals, ofcen a foot long in fruit ; lower branches elongate, ascend- 



