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10. DENBROPANAX, Dene. $ Planch. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous, unarmed. Leaves simple, entire, on young shoots 

 polymorphous, palmately 3-5-lobed; stipules small, scarcely united within the 

 petiole. Umbels solitary or in small panicles ; bracts small or ; pedicels not 

 jointed under the flower. Calyx-margin entire or 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate, 

 somewhat thick. Stamens 5. . Ovary 5-celled ; styles united into a column at 

 the base, their summits (in the Indian species) spreading. Fruit globose or 

 ellipsoid, distinctly or obscurely 5-ribbed. Seeds compressed ; albumen uniform. 

 DISTKIB. Species 20, mostly tropical American ; four species in China, Japan, 

 and E. India. 



1. D. japonicum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 27; leaves densely glandular, 

 fruit ellipsoid much longer than broad distinctly ribbed. Hedera japonica, 

 Jungh. in Walp. Rep. ii. 431 (ex Seem.\ Araliad sp. 34, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f.Sf T. 



KHASIA MTS,, alt. 4000-5000 ft.; H. f. $ T. Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2681, 

 2679). DISTRIB. Japan. 



Appears to be an erect shrub or very small tree. Leaves (those near the umbels) 

 4 by 2-3 in., oblong or elliptic, acute, entire, 1-3-5-nerved from the base ; petiole 

 ;j-2 in. ; polymorphous leaves on young shoots sometimes 8 in. diam., deeply 3-5- 

 palmated ; segments narrowly lanceolate, often remotely and minutely toothed ; 

 petiole 6-8 in. Umbels solitary or 2-3, panicled ; pedicels in. Fruit f by | in., 

 somewhat pentagonal. 



2. D. parviflorum, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 137; leaves not densely glan- 

 dular usually 3-nerved at the base oblong or elliptic acute, fruits subglobose 

 obscurely ribbed. Seem. Rev. Heder. 27. Hedera parviflora, Champ, in Hook. 

 Kew Journ. Sot. iv. 122. 



Mount Ophir, MALACCA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2685) ; Maingay, No. 682. 

 DISTBIB. Hongkong. 



Apparently an erect shrub. Leaves 3| by 2^ in., entire or very obscurely toothed, 

 glands not visible on the young leaves even; petiole |-1^ in. Umbels mostly 

 solitary ; pedicels in. Fruit \ in. diam. The branchlets from Mount Ophir have 

 -all entire leaves as they carry umbels ; the Hongkong young shoots have polymor- 

 phous palmate leaves. D. proteum, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 136, has the upper leaves very 

 narrowly lanceolar, mostly 1 -nerved from the base, but is perhaps only a variety of 

 the present species. 



11. AUTHROPHYLLUM, Blume. 



Shrubs or small trees, unarmed. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, lower 

 usually alternate and compoundly pinnate, uppermost opposite and simple, 

 intermediate 3-foliolate ; leaflets easily separable from the rhachis ; stipules 

 united within the petiole. Peduncles mostly forming a terminal umbel, each 

 ending in a simple (or slightly compound) umbel of flowers; bracts very small; 

 pedicels not jointed under the flower. Calyx-teeth 5, small. Petals 5, valvate. 

 Stamens 5. Ovary 1-celled 1-ovuled ; style short, simple. Fruit (in the 

 Indian species) ovoid, not angular. Seed subglobose ; albumen ruminated. 

 DISTRIB. Species 3, Malayan. 



1. A. diversifolium, Blume Bijd. 879 ; leaves near the umbels usually 

 all simple, leaflets subobtuse or shortly acuminate. DC. Prodr. iv. 266; 



