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Stamens 5 ; styles 2-5, rarely united ; flowers umbellate, capitate or panicled. 



Fruit a fleshy berry or drupe. Fam. 1. Auamaceae. 



Fruit dry when mature, splitting into two mericarps. Fam. 2. Am.miaceae. 



Stamens 4 ; style 1 ; stigma 1 ; shrubs and trees ; flowers 



not umbellate. Fam. 3. Cornaceae. 



Family 1. ARALIACEAE Vent. 



GiNSEXG Family. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, with alternate or vertioillate (rarely opposite) 

 leaves, and flowers in umbels, heads, or panicles. Calyx-tnbe adnate to the 

 ovary. Petals usually 5, sometimes cohering together, inserted on the 

 margin of the calyx. Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with 

 them (rarely more), inserted on the epigynous disk; anthers introrse. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-several-celled ; stvles as many as the cavities of the ovary; 

 ovules 1 in each cavity, pendulous, anatropous. Seeds flattened, or some- 

 what 3-angled, the testa thin; endosperm copious, fleshy; embryo small, near 

 the hilum; cotj'ledons ovate or oblong. xVbout 52 genera and 400 species, 

 widely distributed. There are no native nor naturalized species in the Ber- 

 muda Flora. 



Hedera Helix L., European Ivy^ is commonly grown on walls and on 

 trees, and has been reported as occasionally occurring outside of cultivation. 

 The leaves are various; the small green flowers are borne in umbels. 



Gastonia cutispongia Lam., of Mauritius, was represented by two fine 

 trees about 18° high at Bellevue in 1914. It has pinnate leaves up to 2*" 

 long, clustered at the ends of the branches, witli thick petioles and 5 or 7 

 broadly ovate to elliptic, obtuse entire short-stalked leaflets o'-S' long; the 

 yellowish flowers are in panicled umbels, the panicles somewhat shorter than 

 the leaves. 



Aralia Guilfoylei Cogn. & March., Variegated Aralia, of New Hebrides, 

 commonly planted for ornament, is a pinnatedeaved tree, with ovate, toothed 

 or incised, usually white-margined or blotched leaflets. 



Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K. Koch, Eice-paper Tree, of Formosa, 

 seen at Cedar Lodge, in 1914, is a shrub about 5° high, which spreads freely 

 by suckers; its nearly orbicular lobed cordate leaves are 8-15' broad, green 

 above, white-cottony beneath; its small white flowers are borne in dense 

 panicled umbels. [Aralia papyrifera Hook.; Fatsia papyrifera Benth. & 

 Hook.] 



Polyscias obtusa (Blume) Harms, Cut-leaved Polyscias, Javan, planted 

 for ornament, is a small tree 10°-12° high, with glabrous bipinnately com- 

 pound, slender-petioled leaves, their ultimate segments suborbicular, sharply 

 toothed or incised, sometimes variegated. [Panax ohtusiim Blume.] 



Family 2. AMMIACEAE Presl. 



Carrot Family. 



Herbs, with alternate decompound compound or sometimes simple 

 leaves, the petioles often dilated at the base. Stipules none, or rarely pres- 

 ent and minute. Flowers small, generally in com]iound or simide umbels, 

 rarely in heads. Umbels and umbellets commonly involucrate or involucel- 

 late. ^ Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its margin truncate or 5-toothed. the 



