Heteropanax.] LXXT. ARALIACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 735 



Leaflets 3 by If in., elliptic, shortly acuminate, little narrowed at the base, 

 glabrous, entire, nerves not very prominent ; petiolules 0- in. Panicle often 1 2-1 6 

 in., branches 4-8 in. ; umbels dense subcapitate in flower ; pedicels in fruit elongating 

 to ^ in. and more. Fruit by in. and in. thick, ultimately glabrous and often 

 glaucous. 



VAE. 1. typica; leaflets elliptic shortly acuminate, base slightly narrowed. 



VAJR. 2. subcordata; leaflets ovate shortly acuminate, base rounded or even 

 cordate. 



VAB. 3. attenuata; leaflets 4 by 1^ in., attenuate acuminate, much narrowed at 

 base. Bengal Plain. China. This may be a distinct species. 



13. BRASSAIOPSIS, Dene. $ Planch. 



Large shrubs or trees, glabrous or tomentose, armed or not. Leaves digitate 

 or palmate or angled; stipules connate within the petiole, not prominent. 

 Umbels in large compound panicles, young parts at least stellately tomentose ; 

 bracts not large, often persistent ; pedicels rising from a dense cluster of per- 

 sistent bracteoles, not jointed under the flower; flowers often polygamous. 

 Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, 

 united, long or short. Fruit broadly globose or turbinate, 2- or by abortion 

 1-seeded. Seed not compressed; albumen ruminated. DISTKIB. Species 10, 

 from Nipal to Java. 



* Leaves undivided. 



1. B. simplicifolia, C. B. Clarke; upper leaves simple lanceolate 

 serrate, adult glabrous. 



MISHMEE; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2699). 



Branchlcts prickly, glabrous or with a little hard close tomentum. Leaves near 

 the panicle alone seen (the lower may be divided) 9 by 3 in., acute, subacute at the 

 base, sharply serrated, membranous, nerves much elevated; petiole 1J in. ; stipules 

 not prominent. Young panicle 5 in., nearly glabrous, branches slightly compound ; 

 bracts in., lanceolate ; pedicels in. with scattered stellate hairs, rising from a 

 dense tuft of bracteoles. Marked by Seemann as new genus, with a note that the 

 petals are imbricate. They are, however, valvate, and it is clearly a Brassaiopsis. 



2. B. Kainla, Seem. Rev. Heder. 18, partly; leaves divided less than 

 half-way down into triangular cuspidate segments, fruit broadly orbicular. 

 Brassaiopsis confluens, Seem. Rev. Hed. 18 (as to the fruit}. Hedera Hainla, 

 Ham. in D<m Prodr. 187; DC. Prodr. iv. 253. Panax curcifolia, Griff. Itin. 

 Note*, 145. Araliad sp. 28, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 3000-6000 ft., from NIPAX to BHOTAN ; Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. No. 2668); J. D. H.; C. B. Clarke. 



A small tree, the ends of the branches prickly, young parts stellately tomentose. 

 Leaves 49 in. diam., truncate or cordate at the base, subspinose-toothed, finally 

 glabrous above and nearly so beneath the hispidulous or stellate hairs distantly 

 scattered. Bracts to the panicle- branches ovate, short, densely stellate-tomentose, 

 persistent. Buds densely stellate-tomentose. Pedicels |-| in., rising from a dense 

 cluster of bracteoles \ in. oblong and very tomentose. Fruit |- by | in., globose, sub- 

 didymous. .Style | in. on the fruit. 



3. B. palm at a, Kurz For. Fl. i. 537 ; leaves palmate divided about half- 

 way down into oblong acute segments, fruit ellipsoid or turbinate, longer than 

 broad. Panax palniatum, Roxb Hort. Beng. 21, Fl. Ind. ii. 74. Araliopsis 

 andamanica, Kurz in Andaman Rep. App. B. 9. Hedera polyacantha. Wall. 

 PI. As. Rar. t. 190. Araliad sp. 33, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



