Heptapleurum.'] LXXI. ARALIACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 731 



ing, compound; bracts \ in., oblong, acuminate, caducous; pedicels in. in fruit. 

 Fruit globose, hardly pentagonal, disc depressed conical, not pentagonal. 



13. K. Cephalotes, C. S. Clarke ; panicle pubescent, flowers sessile, 

 bracts deciduous. II. capitatuin, Seem. Heder. 45 partly. 



MALACCA ; Griffith (No. 2700 Kew Distrib.). 



Apparently a large tree. Leaflets 14 by 4| in., oblong-elliptic, acuminate, rounded 

 or little narrowed at the base, coriaceous, entire, shining, glabrous above, with scat- 

 tered loose woolly hairs that easily wear off beneath ; petiolules 3-4 in., stout. Pani- 

 cle 1 5 in. with stellate pubescence from the base. Heads of fruit globose, close 

 packed without bracteoles. Fruit much longer than broad, 5-8-ribbed, stellately 

 white-tomentose, crowned by the broad short cluster of styles ; disc enlarged, some- 

 what corky. Very unlike Paratropia capitata W. & A. (a Brassaia), with which, 

 regardless of geography, Dr. Seeman united it. 



*** Leaves twice digitate or digitately decompound. 



14. K. heterophyllum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 42 ; leaves twice digitate, 

 panicle narrowly oblong or linear stellately white-pubescent. Iledera hetero- 

 jjhylla, Watt. Cat. 4919 ; O. Don. Gen. Syst. iii. 394. Paratropia heterophylla, 

 Presl Epimel. Sot. 250 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. pt. i. 761. 



PINANG; Wattich.DisTRiB. Java. 



Branchlets glabrous. Leaves digitately 3-4-petioluled, each petiolule bearing 

 3-4 rarely 5 leaflets ; leaflets 4-5 by 1-3 in., oblong or elliptic, acuminate, rounded 

 or somewhat acute at the base, glabrous, entire, membranous ; tertiary nerves promi- 

 nent above, secondary petiolules much varying in length from ^ 1J in. at the same 

 cluster. Panicle 8-12 by 1-3 in., branches slender, little compound ; bracts \ in., 

 ovate-oblong, stellately white tomentose, caducous or sometimes persistent. Flowers 

 small. Fruit pentagonal. 



15. K. biternatum, C. B. Clarke; leaves digitately decompound or 

 twice pinnate with ternate leaflets at each node of the rhachis. 



MALACCA ; Maingay No. 684. 



A small tree ; trunk about 3 ft. (Maingay}. Leaflets 5 by f in., linear-oblong, 

 acuminate, unequal subacute at the base, entire, the reticulating nerves prominent on 

 both surfaces, with scattered stellate hairs (easily wearing off) beneath ; petiolules 

 O in. Panicle 8 by 1^ in., branches hardly divided, with scattered stellate hairs ; 

 bracts deciduous ; pedicels less than in. Flowers small, altogether of a Eu-Hepta- 

 pleuricm. May prove a form of H. heterophyllum. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



HEDERA MOLLIS ; Wall. Cat. 4924 ; the example consists of leaves only ; it may be 

 Heptapleurum Cephalotes above. 



8. TREVESIA, Vis. 



Shrubs or small trees, prickly or unarmed, glabrous or stellate-hairy. 

 Leaves palmate or digitate ; petioles often united by a wing at their base ; sti- 

 pules united within the petiole or obsolete. Flowers polygamous, large for the 

 Order j umbels panicled ; pedicels not jointed under the flower; bracts small 

 or 0. Calyx-margin entire or toothed. Petals 8-12, valvate, somewhat 

 thick, often cohering as a cap in the fertile flowers. Stamens as many as the 

 petals. Ovary with as many cells as the petals ; styles united into a small boss 

 or short column. Fruit ovoid, large for the Order. Seeds compressed ; albu- 

 men uniform. DISTKIB. Species 8; inhabiting Eastern India, Malaya and 

 Polynesia. 



