568 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Polyscias. 



Stamens 5-8, anthers oblong. Ovary 5-8-celled, the cells 1-ovuled ; 

 styles 5-8, distinct, erect. Fruit a 5 -angled, subglobose berry 

 with 5-8 pyrenes. Seed compressed, albumen uniform. 

 POLYSCIAS ACUMINATA, Seem. ; F. B. I. ii. 727 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 

 213. Hedera acuminata, Wt. Ic. t. 1063. 



W. Ghats, in W. Nilgiris, Anamalais and hills of Timievelly 

 at 4,500-5,000 ft, 



A glabrous tree with long pinnate leaves with many oblong- 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate leaflets, the flower umbels in 

 racemes in a panicle. 



4. Schefflera, Forster. 



Trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, digitate, rarely 

 compound-digitate or 1-foliolate; leaflets usually coriaceous, 

 entire or distally toothed ; petioles long ; stipules usually connate 

 within the petiole. Flowers in panicles of umbels or compound 

 racemes, usually terminal ; bracts usually deciduous ; bracteoles 

 or few, sometimes united in a tube; pedicels, if present, 

 not jointed. Calyx-mouth truncate or toothed. Petals 5-6 or 

 many, valvate. Stamens as many as the petals. Ovary -veils as 

 many as the petals ; styles small, separate or combined in a 

 column. Fruit a subglobose, 5-6-angled dry drupe. Seeds com- 

 pressed ; albumen uniform. 



Flowers pedicellate ; bracteoles few or none : 

 Styles connate in a cylindric column ; trees : 

 Flowers in umbels: 



Umbels large, nearly 1 in. in diam., many-flowered, in terminal 

 racemes of rather large flowers ; bracts, bracteoles and pedicels 

 woolly; leaflets coriaceous with conspicuous nerves impressed 



above, raised beneath 1. rostrata. 



Umbels small, about '5 in. indiam,, few- (about 12-) flowered, 

 in lateral panicles of racemes and small flowers; bracts, 

 bracteoles and pedicels glabrous ; leaflets chartaceous with 



slender nerves scarcely impressed or raised 2. micrantha. 



Flowers in racemes, in panicles up to 1 ft. long from the wood 

 of the previous year ; bracts, bracteoles and pedicels rusty- 

 pubesceiit ; leaflets glaucous beneath, the nerves not con- 

 spicuous 3. racemosa. 



Styles short, not connate in a cylindric column; straggling 

 shrubs : 



