Jraliacea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
A more glabrous plant than any of the preceding, with less compound lea\ cs, and often pnttn 
are umbellately, proliferously branched. The long, almost MM& fruit*, distinguish it well. 
5. Oreomyrrhis ciliata (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 171); laxe pilosa v. glabrata, foliis 
linearibus lanceolato-oblongisve pinnatisectis pinnulis multijugis ovatis lineari-ovatisve lariniatis inciso- 
pinnatifidisvc, segmentis ciliatis, scapo superne retrorsum piloso, umbcllis simpliribus, involucri foliolis 
brevibus ovatis subacutis ciliatis, pedicellis elongatis pilosis, fructibus elongato-ovatis glaberrimis. (Gunn, 
824.) 
Hab. Subalpine places, St. Patrick's River, Arthur's Lakes, and Middlesex Plains, Gu m.— 
This, in its usual form, is a smaller species than any of the preceding, with narrower, linear, siinply-pinnati- 
sect, glabrous or appressed-pubescent leaves, the pinnule- decph laciniate, or pinnatili.l, with e;iri 
gins. Scapes simple. Unibrls with broad involucral ballets. Fruit on long pedicels, elongatc-m;,: 
Mr. Gunn and Dr. Milligan have each sent a single specimen of what 1 take to be a slate of thil 
limestone rocks at the Gordon River, Maouuarrie Harbour, with mucb broader, bipirniatited Lean 
spreading hairs. 
Xat. Ord. XXXIX. AUALTACF E. 
Flores polygami v. dioici, cum pedicello : ; 
margine calycis inserta, Stamina 5, Ooarim ■•■ "rbirulata \. 
didyma, 2-4-locularis; loculis 1-spermis. — Frutimli, frn tires r. licrba: ; foliis jJenoiujm ■' 
petiolis foliolisque articulatis ; umbcllis simplicibus v. dcforimtis ; iloribus plerisque unitexualibns, viri- 
dibus. 
The Araliacea, which are most frequent in humid forests, arc extremely rare in Australia, in which reaped 
this country contrast k 11 th New Zealand. The eight or ten Australian species known are con- 
fined to the eastern coasts and northern tropical parts of the Continent. Two have been found by the inde- 
fatigable Dr. Mueller in Victoria. The genera of the Order are now under revision by Pecaisne and Plauchon, 
who propose publishing a monograph of it. Panax is characterized by its usually unisexual flowers, which 
are jointed on to the pedicel, five-toothed calyx, five petals, as many stamens, two to four styles, and th< 
same number of cells in the ovary, and its baccate fruit. (Name from nav, everything, and oko?. 
account of the supposed virtues of some species.) 
1. Panax Gunnii (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 46G) ; frutex v. fruticulus, rami's gracilihus, 
ramulis petiolis pedunculisque strigoso-liirtis, foliis petiolatis junioribus digitatifl :>-7-ioliolatis, foliolis 
plantis junioribus grosse inciso- v. lobato-serratis pinnatifidisve, reni 
natis grosse serratis, pedunculis terminalibus | : '- mis g*»cilfl 
pedicellatis parvis, calycis dentibus acutis, petalis late ovatis, stylis 2 Uftfitui 
(Tab. XXXVII.) 
Hab. Road to Macquarrie Harbour, between the Franklin and Gordon Rivers, in dflU 
the Acheron River, etc., Milllgan, Gmm.— (FL Feb.-April.) 
Avery small, slender, sparingly-branched bush, 2-3 feet high, with flexible, terete, ilmoel led 
branches; the latter, as well as the petioles, peduncles, and pedicels, covered with eppnaeed, rather rigid hairs or 
setse that turn brown when dry. Leaves very different in the young and old states of the plants, on slender 
petioles, digitate j those on young plants have five to seven sessile or petiolulate, spreading leaflets, 1-2 inches long, 
leaflets narrow, lanceolate, inciso-serrate or irregularly pinnatifidly lobed, lobes sometimes long and cut or toothed ; 
