UMBELLIFER^. 261 



umbels simple or compound and in racemes. {Trop. Asia and Oceania^ 

 Malacca, IMascarene isles?) 



108. Gilibertia R. et Pav.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle tubular. Calyx short, entire or denticulate. Petals 5-9, B- 

 angular, internally carinate at middle, valvate. Stamens same in 

 number, inserted under conical disk passing into as many connivent 

 styles as cells of germen ; anthers cordate, shortly apiculate at apex. 

 Germen inferior, 5-10-celled ; cells sometimes irregularly verticillate, 

 1-ovulate. Fruit ovoid -oblong drupaceous; ** pyrenes 5-7." — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves simple petiolate, entire or denti- 

 culate, '' exstipulate "; flowers in simple or compound umbels (?) ; 

 pedicels inarticulate. (Trop. America,^) 



109. Panax L.^ — Flowers * hermaphrodite, or polygamous, 4-5- 

 merous or more rarely 6-co -merous (Polyscias ^); calyx short or 

 very short entire, crenate or denticulate. Petals 4-oo , valvate. 

 Stamens same in number alternate and inserted under epigynous disk 

 of various form, often confluent with base of styles. Germen inferior ; 

 cells 2-3 {Eupanax, Nothopanax,^ Raukaua,^ Cephalopanax,^ Sciado- 

 panax,'^ Maralia ^^), or equal in number to petals {Polijscias, Eupteron,^^ 

 Botrijopanax,^^ Pseiidopanax,^'^ Cheirodendron^^), very rarely (Gupo- 

 carpus ^^) solitary by abortion, 1-ovulate. Styles distinct, elongately 

 recurved or erect (Noiliopanax, Polyscias, Oligoscias)^ more rarely 

 highly or very highly connate {Cephalopanax, Sciadopanax), sometimes 



1 spec, about 10-12. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ^ Seem. Joum. Bot. iv. 352 (Baukana) ; vi. 

 i. 747 {Trexena).—BC. Prodr. iv. 256, n. 2 142, 164. 



{Gilibertia). — Bak. et Bale. FL Maurit. 127, n. ^ H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 149. 



5 {Pohjscias). lo Seem. Journ. Bot. iii, 73, t. 27. 



2 Prodr. 50, t. 8 ; Fl. Per. iii. 75, t. 312.— DC. " Dup.-Th. Gen. Nov. Madag. U.— DC. Prodr. 

 Prodr. iv. 256, n. 1. — Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 174. iv. 255. — Endl. Gen. n. 4553. — Oligoscias Seem. 

 — B. H. Gen. 944, n. 2,1.— Wang enheimia Dietr. Journ. Bot. iii. 179 ; vi. 141, 161, 164, t. 80. 



— Ginannia Dietr. (ex Steud.). ^'^ Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 762 ; Ann. Mm.. 



^ Spec. 2. Seem. loc. cit. Lugd.-Bat. i. 3. 



^ G^(?«. n. 1116 (part, not Seem.). — TiC Prodr. ^^M\q,. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 5.— Grote- 



iv. 252 (part). — Endl. Gen. n. 4551 (part). — fendia Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 247. — Gastonia 



DcNE. et Pl. Bev.Eort. (1854) 105.— B. H. Gen. E(Ep. Bot. Zeit. (1848) t. 1 (not Commers.).— 



938, n. 11.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 148.— Hook. Gilibertia DC. Prodr. iv. 256, n. 3, 5 (not Com- 



Fl. Ind. ii. 725. mers. nor R. et Pav.). 



* Wliite, greenish or purplish. i-* C. Koch, Wochem^chr. (1859) 336 (part).— 



« FoRST. Char. Gen. 63, t. 32.— Endl. Gen. n. Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 178. 



4556.— Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 179.— B. H. Gen. ^^ Nutt. ex Seem. Journ. But. v. 236. 



941, n. 20.— Hook. 7-7. />/</. ii. 727. i^ x)cne. et Pl. Eev. Hort. (1854) 109.— 



7 Miq. Bonplandia (1859), 139 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 206.— B. H. Gen. 937, 



i. p. i. 765.— Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. 293. n. 10. 



