Alangium.'] ALANGIACEAE. 571 



lichianum, C. B. Clarke ; F. B. I. ii. 730. Paratropia 

 Wallwhiana, W. & A. 377. 



"W. Ghats, in Coorg, Nilgiris, Pulneys and hills of Tiniie- 

 velly and Travancore up to 6,000 ft. 



Apparently a climbing shrub or " somewhat arboreous " 

 (W. & A.), or "a medium- sized tree" (Bourdilloii), with 

 large coriaceous leaflets, the main nerves nearly horizontal, 

 the flowers 6-merous. 



9. SCHEFFLERA CAPITATA, Harms. Brassaici capitata, C. B. 

 Clarke ; F. B. I. ii. 732. Paratropia capitata, W. & A. 378. 

 W. Ghats, in Nilgiris and Wynaad, at 3,000-6,000 ft. 

 A striking tree with large coriaceous digitate leaves and 

 stout flowers, inflorescence, the flowers normally 5- often 

 more -merous. 



Nothopanax fruticosum, Miq., is an erect shrub with much cut 

 leaves, frequently grown in gardens as a foliage plant. 



Family LXXX. ALANGIACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, armed or not. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 entire or lobed, usually unequal at base, penninerved or palniately 

 nerved from the base ; stipules 0. Flowers white or yellowish- 

 white, hermaphrodite, in axillary fascicles, cymes or corymbs; 

 pedicels articulate with the ovary ; bracts or small and 

 deciduous. Calyx-tnbe adnate to the ovary, limb truncate or 

 4-10- toothed. Petals 4-10 linear, valvate, thickened, recurved in 

 flower. Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them, 

 or 2-4 times more ; filaments free or slightly connate at base 

 where usually villous ; anthers elongate, linear. Ovary inferior, 

 turbinate, 1-2-celled, surmounted by a disk enclosing the elongate 

 style ; stigma large, capitate ; ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous. 

 Fruit a 1-2-seeded berry, crowned by the calyx-lobes and disk ; 

 testa thick ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons leafy, flattened, cordate 

 at base ; radicle long, terete. 



Alangium, Lamk. 

 CHARACTERS OF THE FAMILY. 



Flowers fascicled ; stamens 2-4 times as many as the petals ; buds 

 about '75 in. long, tawny-pubescent ; leaves oblong- or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, more or less 3-5-nerved at the base, berry ellipsoid, 

 pubescent, '75 in. long 1. salvifolium,. 



