Araliaceae 199 



ARALIACE^E 

 Ginseng Family 



Herbs, shrubs or trees with alternate or 

 verticillate leaves, and flowers in umbels, 

 heads or panicles; calyx tube adnate to the 

 ovary; petals usually 5, sometimes cohering 

 together ; stamens as many as the petals and 

 alternate with them; seeds flattened, some- 

 what 3 -angled with a coloured, fleshy cover- 

 ing. 



Herbs; leaves compound. Aralia. 



Shrubs; leaves simple. Echinopanax. 



Acaulescent or nearly so, root- 



raia stock long. Leaf usually soil- 



nudicaulis 

 L Wild tary, arising with the peduncle 



Sarsapa- from a very short stem; petiole 

 r/llla - erect, 6-12 inches long, primary 



divisions of the leaf slender, stalked, pin- 

 nately 3-5 foliate; leaflets sessile or short 

 stalked, oval or ovate, acuminate, rounded at 

 the base, finely serrate, 2-5 inches long, often 

 hairy on the veins beneath. Flowers on a ped- 



