732 LXXI. ARALIACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Trevesia. 



Hardly separable from Heptapleurum by the larger flower and fruit, and the 

 usually more numerous carpels. 



1. T. palmata, Vis. in Mem. Acad. Torino, ser. 2, iv. 262, with jig. ; 

 leaves large palmate or digitate nearly glabrous, lobes serrate or again lobed, 

 petiolules connected at base by a serrate or lobed wing. Seem. Rev. Heder. 77 ; 

 Kurz Far. Fl. i. 539. Gastonia palmata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33, Fl. Ind. ii. 

 407; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 894. Gilibertia palmata, DC. Prodr. iv. 256. 

 Hedera ferruginea and palmata, Watt. at. 4909 and 4910 partly. Brassaiopsis 

 confluens, Seem. Rev. Hed. 18 (as to the leaves). Araliad sp. 30 and 31, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



From NIPAL and SnuciMto PEGU, alt. 1000-5000 ft., frequent. 



A small tree 10-15 ft., the shoots with reddish hair and many prickles. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft., adult glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces 

 deeply palmate, in young plants often digitate ; petiole often prickly. Panicles 18 in., 

 straggling, young with red-brown tomentum; bracts 1 in., oblong, usually deciduous ; 

 pedicels 1-1^ in. Buds exceeding \ in. diam. Fruit f by in., ovoid, glabrate, ribs 

 not prominent, crowned by the stout style. 



VAE. 1. insignis, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 220 (sp.); leaves very large, 

 segments lobed or subpinnatifid. Khasia Mts.; Griffith No. 2664 (Kew Distrib.). 



VAR. 2. cheirantha ; leaves palmate nearly glabrous, lobes serrate, petiolules when 

 present with entire wing. Hedera ? Aralia, Jack in Wall. Cat. 4925. Chittagong, 

 alt. 0-1000 ft.; H.f. $ T. Pinang and Malay Peninsula, Porter, Sir W. Norris; 

 Wall. Cat. 4910 partly. Malacca, Griffith (No. 2661 Kew Distrib.). Distrib.. 

 Philippines. These are the examples (leaves only) referred in Gen. PI. i. 943 to 

 T. sundaica, Eegel (Grarteufl. 1864, t. 438, not of Miquel). In T. palmata the young 

 plants only, and only occasionally, produce digitate leaves ; and such are often only 

 imperfectly digitate, the central leaflets being frequently petioluled the lateral 

 leaflets continuous. There may be more than one species- of Trevesia here included, 

 but no species can be founded on imperfectly digitate leaves. One sheet of Wall. 

 Cat. 4910, marked Hedera confluens, consists of the fruit of Brassaiopsis (probably 

 B. Hainla) mixed with leaves of Trevesia and constitutes the Brassaiopsis confluens,. 

 Seem. Kev. Heder. 18. 



9. BRASSAIA, Endl. 



Unarmed glabrous trees. Leaves digitate ; leaflets large, leathery, entire ; 

 stipules united within the petiole. Panicle stout, long, branches mostly un- 

 divided ; umbels contracted into heads ; each flower surrounded by 4 ovate 

 bracteoles, as long as the ovary and united below into a tube. Calyx-margin 

 entire or nearly so. Petals 6-18, valvate, thick. Stamens as many as the petals, 

 Ovary cells as many as the petals ; styles very short, scarcely united as a short 

 cone. Fruit obconic and ribbed below, hemispheric above. Seed compressed ; 

 albumen uniform. DISTRIB. Species 2, extending from the Deccan Peninsula 

 to Northern Australia. 



Separated from Heptapleurum Cephalotes by the floral bracteoles. 



1. B. cap it at a, C. B. Clarke ; bracts at the base of the panicle-branches 

 ovate short very persistent, petals and carpels 6-10. Heptapleurum capitatum, 

 Seem. Rev. Heder. 45 partly. Paratropia capitata, W. fy A. Prodr. 378. 



NILGHERRY MTS., Kotagherry and Vellyengry Hill ; Wight. 



Leaflets 6-8, 6 by 2^- in., elliptic-oblong subacute, somewhat rounded at the base, 

 very coriaceous, entire ; petiolules 2 in., very stout. Panicle 16 by 3-4 in., branches 

 very stout. Doubtfully separable from B. actinophylla, Endl. (see Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 iii. 385) by its persistent bracts, less numerous flower-parts. Wight's examples are 

 very good, but the species seems rare, as Col. Beddome has never met with it. 



