is.] LXXI. ARALIACE.E. (C. B. Clarke). 737 



Panicle very large and compound, much more glabrous than in the allied species ; 

 bracts to the branches short, ovate, persistent; pedicels in., very numerous, bracte- 

 oles at their base minute. Young calyx-tube sparingly stellate-tomentose, limb 

 distinctly toothed. Disc of the young fruit much elevated ; style scarcely i n - 

 Fruit \ in. diam., globose. 



** Leaves digitate. 



8. B. speciosa, Dene, fy Planch, in Revue Hort. 1854, 106 ; petiolules 

 long, leaflets lanceolate or elliptic rounded or attenuate at the base entire 

 crenulate or lightly subserrate, adult glabrous or nearly so beneath. Seem. Rev. 

 Heder. 19. B. floribuuda, Seem. Rev. Heder. 19. iledera floribunda, Wall. 

 Cat. 4912 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 394. H. glomerulata, DC. Prodr. iv. 265 ; 

 Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4804; Regel in Gartenfl. 1863, t. 411. Aralia glome- 

 rulata, Blume Bijd. 872. Macropanax glomerulatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. 764. Araliad sp. 9, 10, and 11, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



From NIPAL and ASSAM to CHITTAGONG ; alt. 0-5000 ft., frequent. DISTRIB. 

 Java. 



A small tree ; upper part of -the branches (and sometimes the panicle also) 

 prickly ; innovations stellately tomentose often rusty reddish brown. Leaflets 4-8 by 

 1-3 in., when young often with scattered stellate hairs above and some clustered 

 stellate wool beneath, acuminate, herbaceous, reticulations moderately conspicuous ; 

 petiolules usually more than 1 in., summit of the petiole without dense clustered 

 bristles. Panicle large, usually a foot long or more; bracts at the base of the 

 branches oblong or lanceolate, persistent; pedicels f in. rising from a dense cluster 

 of rusty stellately hairy persistent bracteoles ^ in. fruit ^ by -| in., didymo-globose, 

 or 1 -seeded and subglobose. There are many forms of this plant, but these being 

 large, it is not easy to establish species upon them. In the young fruit the disc is 

 sometimes very elevated, and the style is long or short, as mentioned by Dene. & 

 Planchon: the calyx-tube of the young fruit is shortly hemispheric, or more often 

 long and obconic. These differences appear to depend on the stage of ripening at 

 which the fruit is gathered. 



VAK. 1. typica; leaflets 6^ by 2 in. oblong acuminate entire, base not rounded 

 under surface of the adult glabrous. Wall. Cat. 4912. 



VAR. 2. subovata; leaflets 7 by 4|- in. ovate or elliptic shortly suddenly acumi- 

 nate entire or very nearly so base rounded adult glabrous beneath. Sikkim, 

 J. D. H. 



VAR. 3. hirfa ; leaflets 5 by 1^ in. lanceolate narrowed to both ends entire mid- 

 rib beneath when young with needle-like spreading hairs (unlike those of any other 

 plant in the order). The leaflets are detached from the panicle, but except as to the 

 hairs they appear to belong to the species. Cachar, R. L. Keenan. 



VAR. 4. rufo-stellata ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate from a rounded base somewhat 

 closely denticulate-serrate in nearly their whole extent with scattered rusty-stellate 

 hairs above, when young rusty villose pubescent beneath, panicle densely rufous- 

 stellate tomentose. Chiefly from low levels in Cachar, Khasia, and Chittagong. 



VAR. 5. serrata ; leaflets 7 by 2 in. elliptic-lanceolate dentate-serrate base sub- 

 acute, panicle very sparingly stellate-woolly. Darjeeling, Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 

 2689). 



9. B. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke; petiolules distinct or long, leaflets very- 

 large oblong narrowed at each end serrate, mature more or less stellate-woolly 

 beneath. Araliad sp. 12, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. # T. 



SIKKIM, alt. 2000-5000 ft.; Yoksun, J. D. H. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000 ft.; 

 Nunklow, H.f. $ T. 



A small prickly tree. Leaflets attaining 18 by 8 in., somewhat leathery, nerves 

 above subimpressed ; petiolules i- 2 in. Panicle 2 ft., the branches more than a foot 

 with broad oblong persistent bracts at their base, the young parts densely white 

 YOL. II. 3 B 



