Pob./scias.'] ARALIAGEAE. 567 



polygamo-monoecious, in solitary racemed or panicled rarely 

 compound umbels ; pedicels often jointed close under the flower. 

 Calyx truncate or 5-lobed. Petals 5, ovate, imbricate in bud. 

 Stamens 5. Ovary 2-5-celled ; styles 2-5, free or shortly connate 

 at the base. Fruit a small 4-5 -celled and -angled or 2-3-celled 

 and subglobose berry. Seeds compressed ; albumen uniform. 

 ARALIA MALABARICA. Bedd. Fl. cxxi. ; F. B. I. ii. 722. 



W. Ghats, Wynaad to Travancore at 2,000-3,000 ft., in 

 evergreen forests. 



A large shrub or small tree with scattered prickles on the 

 stems and leaves. Leaves bipinnate, leaflets lanceolate, 

 sharply serrate ; flowers in a spreading panicle of prominently 

 bracteate umbels. 



A leaf specimen from the Madgol Hills of Yizagapatam (A. W. 

 Lushmgtoii) appears to belong to A. foliolosa, Seem. ; F. B. I. ii. 

 723. var. sikkimensis, C. B. Clarke. It is a small, single-stemmed, 

 erect treelet with very prickly leaves and stems. 



2. Pentapanax, Seem. 



Trees or large climbing shrubs, often epiphytic. Leaves alter- 

 nate, simply pinnate with 3-5 or more leaflets or digitate with 

 3-5 leaflets, glabrous. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, in 

 compound racemes or panicles ofnimbels ; pedicels jointed under 

 the flowers. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 

 5. Ovary 4-5-celled ; styles 45, combined at any rate except the 

 tips. Fruit 4- or 5-celled and -angled or -ribbed. 



PENTAPANAX LESCHENAULTII, Seem. ; F. B. I. ii. 724. Hedera 

 Leschenaultu, W. & A. 377. H. trifoliata, W. & A. 377 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. 307. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris and southwards at high elevations 

 as 011 Dodabetta at 8,000 ft. 



A tree with 3-5 ovate-acuminate bristly -serrated leaflets, and 

 panicles of globose umbels, the fruit not deeply angled. It 

 is sometimes found growing epiphytically on other trees. 



3. Polyscias, Forst. 



Trees or large shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnate; leaflets 

 entire, coriaceous. Flowers in panicles of umbels : bracts small, 

 lanceolate or ; pedicels articulate under the flower. Calyx-limb 

 minutely toothed. Petals 5-8, usually 5, free, valvate in bud. 



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