738 LXXI. ARALIACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Brassaiopsis. 



stellate-woolly ; pedicels ^-f in., stout, rising from numerous persistent bracteoles 

 I in., less hairy than those of B. floribunda. Young fruit much as in B. floribunda ; 

 calyx-tube campanulate or obconic ; disc prominently rayed, not greatly elevated ; 

 style -|- in. Possibly a large form of B. floribunda. 



10. B. aculeata, Seem. Rev. Seder. 19 ; leaflets serrate attenuate at 

 base subsessile and often enveloped densely by bristles with stellate hairs on 

 both surfaces when adult. Hedera aculeata, Don Prodr. 187 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 264. H. sesculifolia, Wall Cat. 4913. Agalma sesculifolium, Seem. Rev. 

 Heder. 25, 



KUMAON; T. Thomson. NIPAL; Wallich. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000 ft., C. B. 

 Clarke. 



A small prickly tree. Leaflets 9 by 2^ in., narrowly lanceolate-obovate, acumi- 

 nate, herbaceous, soft in texture, rusty stellate-tomentose, apex of the petiole very 

 hispid ; in one example of Dr. Thomson's the digitate leaf is sometimes replaced by a 

 single entire leaf cordate at base. Panicle large, compound, greatly resembling that 

 of B. floribunda, young parts stellate rusty- woolly ; bracts at the .base of the branches 

 ovate, short, persistent ; pedicels ^ f in., springing from a dense cluster of lanceolate 

 hairy persistent bracteoles | in. Fruit in. long and broad, globose, subdidymous ; 

 disc on the ripe fruit flat ; style ^~ in. Wallich's Hedera cesculifolia, in the Linnsean 

 Society's herbarium, and those marked Agalma cesculifolium in the British Museum 

 by Seemann, are all 2-ovuled, and identical with Brassaiopsis aculeata. 



14. MACRO PAN AX, Miq. 



Unarmed small trees. Leaves digitate, 3-5-foliolate, leaflets entire or 

 serrate, in the Indian species glabrous; stipules shortly connate within the 

 petiole or 0. Panicles large, branched ; bracts small, deciduous ; pedicels 

 jointed under the flowers ; flowers umbelled, polygamous. Calyx-teeth 5. 

 Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled ; styles united. Fruit ovoid or 

 subglobose or somewhat elongated upwards, striated or ribbed but hardly an- s 

 gular. Seeds dorsally compressed , albumen ruminated or very rugose. Dis- 

 TRIB. Species 2, Nipal to Java. 



1. IMC. oreophilum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 764; leaflets usually 

 denticulate serrate or crenulate, panicle-branches spreading stellately rusty- 

 tomentose. Seem. Rev. Heder. 20; Kurz For. Fl. i. 541. M. floribundum, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 764. Panax serratum, Wall. Cat. 4915 ; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 253. Aralia disperma, Blume Bijd. 872. Hedera disperma, DC. Prodr. iv. 

 265. Araliad sp. 8, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



From NIPAL and ASSAM to TENASSERIM, alt. 500-7000 ft., frequent. DISTBIB. 

 Malaya. 



Attains 30 ft. Leaflets 5 by 1^ in., lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes longer and 

 very narrow, sometimes almost elliptic, base narrowed or rounded ; petiolules 1-3 

 in. Panicle 1 ft., compound; bracts usually deciduous, inconspicuous; pedicels in., 

 stout, more or less stellate-hairy, the bracteoles few or deciduous. Fruit % in., 

 ovoid, sometimes elongated upwards ; disc large, conical, often wider than the top 

 of the fruit, crowned with the permanent style ^-| in. 



2. IKE. undulatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 20 ; leaflets entire or very nearly 

 so, panicle-branches ascending glabrous. Hedera undulata, Wall. Cat. 4916 ; 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 394. Araliad sp. 5, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



SIKKIM. BHOTAN, ASSAM and KHASIA, alt. 500-5000 ft., common. SELHET station. 

 A small tree. Leaflets 3-4 by l in., lanceolate, acuminate, rarely elliptic- 



