282 A raliaceCB . [Heptapleurum. 



thick, valvate ; stam. 5, small, epigynous ; disk flat ; ov. quite 

 inferior, 4- or 5 -celled, with one pendulous ovule in each cell, 

 styles 4 or 5, distinct ; fruit broadly ovoid, ribbed, pyrenes 

 compressed, endosperm not ruminate. — Sp. 8 ; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. acuminata, Seem, in Jour n. Bot. iii. 181 (1865). 

 Hedera acuminata, Wight, Thw. Enum. 131. C. P. 4. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 727. Wight, Ic. t. 1062. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 213. 



A small tree, quite glabrous ; 1. large, pinnate, rachis 

 8-9 in., stout, cylindrical, somewhat thickened at base and 

 amplexicaul, lflts. 5 or 7 (2 or 3 pairs and end one) shortly 

 stalked, 3I-4J in., lanceolate, acute at base, attenuate, very 

 acute at apex, entire, with narrowly recurved margin, glabrous, 

 rather thick ; fl. on short stout ped. articulated at each end, 

 3-5 in little umbels terminating short branches, which come 

 off from upper parts of thick erect axes, 2-5 of which are 

 umbellately arranged at end of stout peduncle opp. the 1., 

 bracts linear, setaceous ; cal. glabrous, segm. acute ; pet. very 

 thick, concave, apex inflexed, acute ; disk broad, fleshy ; 

 styles short, erect, blunt ; fruit (not seen ripe) crowned with 

 cal.-limb and enlarged spreading styles, obscurely ribbed, 

 glabrous. 



Montane zone ; very rare. Banks of streams, Gangalla, near Adam's 

 Peak, between 4000 and 5000 ft. (Thwaites) ; Bogawantalawa. Fl. Feb.- 

 May ; pale green. 



Also in the mountains of S. India. 



\Pentapanax Leschenaultiu Seem., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind 

 ii. 724, but I do not know on what authority. There are no specimens.] 



Panax fruticosum, L., is a very common cultivated hedge-plant. It is 

 probably a native of Malaya, but is nowhere now found wild. 



2. HEPTAFIiEURUM, Gaertn. 



Trees or climbing shrubs, 1. digitate, with stip. adnate to 



petiole or intrapetiolar, fl. in umbels or racemes arranged in 



panicles ; cal.-limb small or absent ; pet. 5-9, valvate, stam. 



same number as pet., epigynous, disk flat or prominent, ov. 



quite or half inferior, cells as many as pet. and stam., with a 



single pendulous ovule in each cell, styles usually o or very 



short or combined into a cone ; fruit small, ovoid, often bluntly 



ribbed, endosperm not ruminate. — Sp. 50; 15 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Lflts. 4-9. 



Styles combined into a cone . . . . 1. H. RACEMOSUM. 

 Styles o. 



Climbing shrub : disk flat . . . .2. H. STELLATUM. 



Tree ; disk conical 3. H. exaltatum. 



Lflts. solitary or 3 4. H. EMARGINATUM. 



