252 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



variously shaped in the same plant, either elongate, or very short 

 (Pseudopanax, Cheirodendroii). Fruit drupaceous ; exocarp more or 

 less fleshy ; pyrenes l-oo ; vittae or rarely (Sciadopanax) con- 

 spicuous. Seed, descending ; albumen uniform or more rarely costate 

 {Sciadopanax), rugose or subruminate (Maralia). — Glabrous or more 

 rarely tomentose trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or the upper 

 sometimes opposite (Cheirodendron), simple, 3-foliolate {Cheirodendron) , 

 digitately compound (Pseiidopanax), or very often pinnate; inflores- 

 cence various ; umbels or capitules (Gephalopanax) solitary or 

 umbellate, corymbose, simple- or compound - racemose ; pedicels 

 articulate under flower ; articulation very rarely {Raukaua) obscure. 

 (Trop. and temp. Asia and Oceania, east. ins. Africa, extra trop. S. 

 America.^) 



110? Heteropanax Seem.^ — Flowers polygamous (Panacis) ; 

 disk epigynous rather concave. Stamens 5. Disk depressed. Germen 

 2-celled ; styles 2, erect, free, slender. Fruit much compressed 

 contrary to septum, sub-2-dymous; albumen of compressed seed 

 ruminate. — A tree ; leaves pinnately decompound ; stipules small ; 

 flowers in a full compound-ramose umbelluliferous raceme.^ (India, 

 China J) 



111. Cussonia Thunb.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous 

 (nearly of Panax) ; calyx short entire or dentate. Petals valvate. 

 Stamens as many alternate ; anthers subovate. Germen 2-celled 

 ('' sometimes 1 -celled "); styles short or elongate, connivent or free ; 

 disk epigynous depressed or conical. Fruit subglobose or compressed 

 contrary to septum ; pyrenes 1-2 ; albumen of descending seed 

 ruminate. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves collected at top of 

 twigs, digitate or palmatifid, sometimes twice digitate ; leaflets entire, 

 widely dentate or pinnatisect ; flowers in dense simple or compound 



^ Spec, about 50. Wight, Icon. t. 573, 1062 to Panax, sometimes to \Aralia papyrifcra, 



{Hedera). — Hook. /c<y«. t. 583 {Aralia) ; Lo)id. Habit peculiar. Hairs mostly stellate. Fruit 



Journ. But. ii. t. 11, 12. — Endl. Adh. Wieii. Mus. nearly of Didi/mnpai/ax or Mackinlaya. Better 



i. t. 15. — C. Gay, Fl. CMl. iii. 151 {A' alia). — perhaps a sect, of Panax, albumen not uni- 



HooK. F. Ft. Autarct. t. 12 ; Fl. Tasm. t. 21 ; Fl. form (?). 



N.-Zcl.t.21; Handb. N.Zeal.Fl. 100. — A. GiiAY, ^ Spec. 1. H.fragrans^-EEyi. — Panax fragrans 



UniL St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 716 ; 718, t. 90, 91 Roxb. Cat. Sort. Calc. 21.— DC. Prodr. iv. 254. 



(^<^</era).— BEXTH.i'V.^MS^;-«^.iii. 380.— HiERN, ^ Nov. Acta Upsal, 210, t. 12, 13; Not. Gen. 



Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 27.— Bak. et Balf. Ft. i. 11.— L. f. Suppl. 182.— J. Gen. 217.— Lamk. 



Maur. 126.— H. Bx. Adansonia, xii. 450-452. Dicf. ii. 230; III. t. 187.— DC. Prodr. iv. 255. 



^ Fl. Vit. 114 (note); Journ. But. iv. 297; v. — Endl. Gen. n. 4552 (part). — Seem. Journ. 



239— B. H. Gen. 945. n. 31.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. Bd. iv. 297.— B. H. Gen. 944, n. ZO.—Sphosro- 



734. dendron Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 33, t. 26.— B. H, 



^ Gen. scarcely autonomous, sometimes allied Gen. 1009, n. 11 a. 



