248 NATURAL HISTORY 0I< PLANTS. 



or more or less combined and subcalyptrately deciduous; apex 

 oftener inflexed and pendulous from the top of the bud among the 

 anthers. Stamens equal in number to petals and inserted with them 

 under a flat, depressed or conical, sometimes elongate {Actinomorplu^) 

 epigjnous disk. Germen inferior or free at apex ; cells 4-5, op- 

 positipetalous or more rarely 2-3 (Dipanax,^ Meiopanax ^), or 3-oo , 

 5-10 (Euschefflera) , 6-oo (Brassaia,^ Faratropia) ; styles either free 

 at base, obtuse at apex, or capitellate, or connate to greater or less 

 height {Astropanax,^ Dendropanax,^) or nearly to apex (Agalnia'^), 

 sometimes very short or scarcely perceptible {Meiopanax, Bipanax, 

 Paratropia), sometimes in the same species (Euschefflera) either very 

 short obtuse, or finally elongate capitellate. Ovules in cells solitary, 

 descending; micropyle extrorsely superior, sometimes closed by 

 thickened funicle. Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 2-go ; albumen of 

 descending seed uniform or rarely (Dendropanax) rugose. — Trees or 

 shrubs sometimes climbing ; leaves alternate or rarely in part opposite, 

 simple or 1-foliolate, entire or palmatilobed, oftener oo -foliolate 

 digitate or rarely (Dipanax) pinnate ; flowers umbellulate or capitate ; 

 capitules or umbellules in racemes or corymbs more or less branched, 

 sometimes very elongate; bracts small or more rarely (Brassaia) 

 broad and forming an involucel more or less deeply cupular under 

 each flower; pedicels inarticulate. (All trop, and suhtrop. regions.^) 

 103? Sciadophyllum P. Br.^— Flowers nearly ^^ of Schefflera ; 



—Hook. Ft. Ind. ii. 121. — Paratropia DC. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 715, t. 89 {Aralia) ; 722 



Prodi: iv. 265 (part).— Exdl. Gen. n. 4561.— {Paratropia).— liliQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 749 



DcNK. et Pl. Rev. Hort. (1854) 100. {Actinomorphe), 751, t 11 {Agalma), 752, t. 12 



1 MiQ. Comm. Pi.yt. 102; FL Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. {Paratropia) ; Ann. Mus. lugd.-Bat. ii. 12 {Tex- 

 749. t<yria), 19, 219 {Paratropia), 25 {Agahna), 26 



2 Seem. Journ. Bot. vi. 130. {Dendropanax). — Bextw. Fl. Austral, iii. 384 

 '^ H. Bn. Adunsonia, xii. 147. {Heptaphtirum), 385 {Brassaia). — Fk. et Sav. 

 4 ExDL. Nov. St. Bee. 89 ; Iconogr.i. 114-116 ; Enum. PL Jap. i. 194.— Hiekn. Oliv. FL Trop. 



G~n. n. 45561. — Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 242. — B. H. Afr. iii. 29 {Hcptapleurum). — Hahv. and Sond. 



Gen. 943, n. 25. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 732. FL Cap. ii. 570 {Cussonia). — Hance, Journ. Bot. 



^ Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 176, 225. (1877) 334 {Hcptaplenrum).—WALv. Bep.ii. 433 



^ DcNE. et Pl. Rev. Hort. (1854) 107.— Seem. {Paratropia) ; Ann. i. 359 {Paratropia) ; ii. 724 



Journ. Bot. ii. 299.— B. H. Gen. 943, n. 26.— {Paratropia). 



Hook. FL Ind. ii. IZ^.—Textoria Miq. Ann. 9 jam. 190, t. 19 (1756).— J. Qen. 451 {Scio- 



Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 12 (Rather perhaps a sect, of daphijllum). — DC. Prodr. iv. 259. — Endl. Gen. 



Sciadophyllum than of Schefflera, genera in other ri. 4559 fpart). — Done, et Pl. Rev. Hort. (1854) 



respects very closely allied and better perhaps 106. — Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 265 (part) ; vi. 141. 



united in one). — B. H. Gen. 940, n. 17.— H. Bx. Adansonia, xii. 



7 Mm. FL Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 751, t. 11. U6.—Actinophgllum R. et Pav. Prodr. 51, t. 8 ; 



8 Spec, about 90. Jacq. HorL Schcenbr. t. 51 FL Per. iii. 74, t. 307-311. 



{Aralia). — Wight, Icon. t. 1011-1015 {Hedera). i» White or yellowish, sometimes handsome, 



— Hook. f. Fl. N.-ZeaL t. 22 {Aralia) ; Handb. hermaphrodite or sometimes polygamous. 

 N. ZeaL FL 103 {Schefflera). —A. Gkay, Un. St. 



