Hedera.] XLII. ARALIACELE. 249 



2-5 in. long, exceedingly variable, those of flowering branches ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, with a tapering base, the others more or less triangular in outline ; 

 3- or 5-lobed, with a rounded or cordate base, the lobes deep or shallow, 

 often lobulate \ petiole slender, varying in length, generally shorter than 

 leaf. Flowers yellowish-green, in pedunculate globose umbels ; peduncles 

 and pedicels clothed with minute stellate scales. Berry yellow, shining, 

 3- or 4-seeded. 



Afghanistan, and hills trans-Indus. Panjab Salt range. Himalaya, 3000- 

 9000 ft., from the Indus to Bhutan. Kasia hills. Europe, North Africa, West- 

 ern Asia, Japan. Fl. Oct. to April. The berries of the European Ivy are black, 

 rarely yellow. Attains a large size. Mathieu, Fl. For. 138, describes a stem 

 grown near Montpellier, 433 years old, 6 ft. 7 in. girth. Wood light-grey or yel- 

 low, soft and light. The Ivy is not a parasite ; nevertheless it considerably im- 

 pedes the growth of the trees to which it attaches itself. 



3. HEPTAPLEURUM, Ggertner. 



Large shrubs or trees. Leaves digitate, leaflets coriaceous, entire. 

 Stipules prominent, connate between branch and petiole. Flowers in 

 racemes or in paniculate umbels. Petals generally 5-6, rarely more, val- 

 vate. Stamens as many as petals. Top of fruit generally raised beyond 

 the calyx-limb. 



1. H. venulosum, Seemann ; Journ. Bot. iii. 80. Syn. Paratropia 

 venulosa, Wight 111. t. 1 18 j Hedera terebinthacea, Wall.; Aralia digi- 

 tata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 107. Vern. Dain. 



A small, soft-wooded tree with straggling branches, often sending out 

 rootlets. Leaflets 5-6, glabrous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, unequal, the 

 middle leaflet largest ; common petiole 5-6 in. long, partial petioles J-2 

 in. long. Flowers in paniculate umbels. Berry smooth, yellow, ovoid, 

 5-celled. 



South India, Burma, Bengal, Satpura range, Kamaon, ascending to 3000 ft. 

 Fl. Feb., March. 



4. HETEROPANAX, Seemann. 



1. H. fragrans, Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. 297. Syn. Panax fragrans, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 76. 



A small soft-wooded tree 15-20 ft. high, leaves glabrous, tripinnate, 2-4 

 ft. long, leaflets ovate or rotundate, entire, 3-6 in. long, on short petioles. 

 Flowers yellow, fragrant, polygamous, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, in 

 compact subglobose, paniculate umbels, the umbels at the end of branches 

 and branchlets generally composed of bisexual, the lateral ones of male 

 flowers. Petals 5, valvate. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, filiform, distinct. 

 Fruit laterally compressed, J in. across, broader than long, 2-celled ; en- 

 docarp crustaceous ; albumen ruminated. 



Burma, East Bengal, sub-Himalayan tract Kamaon (above 2000 ft.) to Assam. 

 Fl. Oct.-Dec. 



