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ciliate at margin. Stamens 5 ; filaments inflexed at apex, inserted 

 under conical epigynoiis disk crowning apex of gernien and produced 

 above to 2-4 subulate styles.^ Germen mostly inferior, 2-4-celled ; 

 ovule in cells 1, descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit 

 drupaceous oblong (immature) ; pyrenes 1-4, woody, sulcate. Seed 

 conformed to putamen ; embryo . . . ? — Glabrous or velvety shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, sometimes collected at top of branches, petiolate, 

 simple oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate dentate ; flowers in long- 

 stipitate compound-umbelluliferous corymbs ; bracts of involucels oo ^^ 

 (lY. Caledonia.') 



100. Astrotricha DC."^ — Flowers ^ asepalous or sepals short 

 dentiform. Petals 5, coriaceous, valvate. Stamens 5 (of Aralia) ; 

 filaments inserted under subplane or cupular disk undulate at margin. 

 Germen inferior, 2 -celled; styles free slender. Fruit ovoid, com- 

 pressed contrary to septum ; exocarp thin ; pyrenes 2, sometimes 

 spuriously hollowed in cellules ; albumen of descending seed uniform. 

 — Shrubs woolly or stellately tomentose in every part ; leaves alter- 

 nate petiolate simple ; umbellules in very ramose racemes ; bracts 

 small or ; pedicels articulate under flower. (Australia.^) 



101. Horsfieldia Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Astrotricha) oftener 

 hermaphrodite ; calyx short or 0. Petals glabrous, valvate. Germen 

 2-celled ; styles 2, free, perceptibly dilated at base to stylopods. 

 Fruit ovoid laterally compressed ; carpels separable at maturity, 3- 

 costate ; albumen of oblong seed uniform. — Tall aculeate, tomentose 

 or woolly shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate, peltate or cordate, 

 3-5-lobed or palmati-3-9-fid ; umbellules small capituliform in long 

 compound-ramose raceme ; bracts small ; the exterior larger mem- 

 branous imbricate ; pedicels inarticulate, often bracteolate. (Java,^) 



102. Schefflera Forst.^ — Flowers ^^ hermaphrodite or polygamous; 

 calyx dentate or entire, sometimes very short or 0. Petals 4-5, or 

 more rarely oo , valvate, either separate (Heptapleurum,^^ Euschefflera), 



1 Authers nestling in concave petals. ^ Bijdr. 885. — DC. Prodr. iv. 87. — Endl. 



2 Appearance quite singular. For the plant Gen. n. 4387 ; Suppl. i. 1413. — B. H. Gen. 937, 

 in a species clothed with leaves resembles n. 8.— Seem. Journ. Bot. v. 237 (part). — iSchu- 

 Broussaisia. bertia Bl. Bijdr. 884. 



3 Spec. 2. H. Bx. loc. cit. 134. » Spec. 2. Benx. Fl. Jav. Rzr. 123, t. 26. 



•* Mem. 29, t. 5, 6 ; Prodr. iv. 74.— Endl. Gen. ^ Char. Gen. (1776) 45, t. 23.— J. Gen. 429.— 



n. 4363.— B. H. Gen. 937, n. 9.— Seem. Journ. Seem. Juurn. Bot. iii. 175. — B. H. Gen. 940, n. 



But. V. 237. 18. — H. Bx. Adanso)iia, xii. 138, 145. 



5 Everywhere stellately tomentose. *" White, yellow or purplish. 



6 Spec. 3, 4. Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 379.— i' G^ertx. Fruct.n. 472, t. 178, fig.3(l791),— 

 Walp. Rep. ii. 385. Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 75. — B.U. Gen. 942, n. 23. 



