102 4G. ARALlACE.E. [Hepiajjkannn. 



Ordek 4G. ARALIACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs^ sometimes scaudeut. Leaves alternate, simple 

 or compound long-petioled. Stipules aduate to the petiole, or 0. 

 Flowers regular, sometimes polygamous in umbels, racemes or 

 panicled heads ; pedicels continuous with the base of the calyx or 

 there jointed ; bracts and braeteoles small or conspicuous. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to ovary ; limb truncate, obsolete or with small teeth. 

 Petals 5, rarely more, valvate, expanding or deciduous in a cap, 

 Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals, inserted round an 

 epigynous disc. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, or cells as many as the 

 stamens ; styles distinct or united ; ovules solitary and pendulous in 

 each cell. Fruit small^ seed pendulous, albumen uniform or rumi- 

 nate. 



HEPTAPLEURUM, Gartn. 

 Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves digitate ; leaflets 

 coriaceous, usually entire ; stipules connate within the petiole and 

 prominent. Umbels panicled or in compound racemes ; bracts 

 woolly ; pedicels not jointed ; braeteoles few or 0. Calyx-margin 

 toothed or truncate. Petals 5-6 or many, valvate. Stamens as 

 many as petals. Ovary cells as many as petals, disc large or small ; 

 styles small, separate or combined in a column. Fruit subglobose, 

 5-6-angled ; albumen uniform. 



Leaflets with prominent nervures, on the upper surface ...fJ. VP»uIosT<m. 

 Nervines not pron:inent above fJ. Wallichianum. 



H. venulosum. Seem. Rev. Heder. 44 ; Fl. Br. L 2. 729 ; Brondis For. 

 n. 249; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 122. Comraon in tlie evergreen forests of the 

 Konkan and IS'orth Ktluara. Usually climbing scandent. Fl. March> 

 June. Fr. June, Aug. 



H. Wallichianum, C. B. Clarke. Fl. Br. T. 2. 730 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 122 ; 

 Hedera Wallu'liiana, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108. Konkan ghats, pretty 

 common, Dalz. 



Order 47. CORNACEiE. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, often unequal at 

 the base ; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or uni- 

 sexual, in axillary or terminal cymes, panicles or heads. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to ovary ; limb truncate or 4-5-toothed, pei'sistent. 

 Petals or 4-5. Stamens inserted with the petals and equal to 

 them in number. Ovary inferior, 1-4-celled ; crowned by the 

 disc ; style single, stigma capitate or branched ; ovule solitary, 

 pendulous. Fruit usually succulent, 1-4-celled, less often with 2 

 pyrenes. Seed oblong, pendulous, albumen copious, fleshy. 



Petals long, narrow. Stamens 20-39 ... ... Alangium. 



Petals short. (Stamens 5-4 ... .,. ... Mastixia. 



