Heptapleitrum.] AralictcetZ. 283 



1. H. racemosum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 214 (1873?). 

 Hedera racemosa, Wight, Thw. Enum. 132. C. P. 549. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 729. Wight, Ic. t. 1015. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 214 (from a 

 Ceylon specimen). 



A large tree, much branched, branchlets stout, marked 

 with scars of fallen 1., young parts covered with dense, pale 

 orange, readily detached scurf; 1. palmate, petiole 4-5 in., 

 cylindrical, thickened and stem-clasping at base, lflts. 5-9, 

 spreading, on stalks about 1 in. long, oblong-ovate, 3-4 in.„ 

 rounded at base, acuminate, usually twisted at apex, often 

 conduplicate, quite glabrous when mature, dark green above, 

 paler beneath, rather coriaceous, venation reticulate, pellucid ; 

 fl. numerous, on short, stout, furfuraceous ped., arranged in 

 umbellate stalked racemes spreading divaricately from stout 

 rachis of large, erect, or drooping terminal or extra-axillary 

 panicle which is over 12 in. long, buds small, ovoid, blunt: 

 cal. furfuraceous, limb very slightly developed, truncate ; pet. 

 usually 5, ovate, subacute ; disk nearly flat; ov. quite inferior, 

 styles combined into a short blunt cone ; fruit about \ in., 

 ovoid, tipped with a beak, with 5-9 blunt, vertical ribs. 



Forests of montane zone, 3000-6000 ft. ; rather common. Fl. April, 

 May; pale Lireen. 



Also in the mountains of S. India. 



The leaflets of young plants are often deeply gashed, with unequal 

 narrow very acute segment. 



2. K. stellatum, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 472 (1791). Itta, Itta- 

 wel, 5. 



Herm. Mus. 50. Hedera terebi?ithacea, Vahl, Symb. iii. 42 ; Moon 

 Cat. 18. Paratropia terebintJiacea, Am. Pug. 20. Hedera Vahlii, Thw. 

 Enum. 132. C. P. 1632. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 730. Wight, Ic. t. 1011 {Hedera obovata). 



A large, scandent, epiphytic shrub, branchlets stout, 

 glabrous, marked with leaf-scars ; 1. palmate, petiole 2\- 4 in., 

 cylindrical, glabrous, thickened and with an amplexicaul 

 sheath at base, lflts. 4-7, on petioles |-i in., oval, 2^—3-^ in., 

 acute at both ends, rather thick, glabrous ; fl. over h in., on 

 rather long slender glabrous ped. articulated at base, 3-8 in 

 stalked umbels arranged on branches of large terminal 

 panicles, bracts membranous, acuminate, soon falling, buds 

 very blunt; cal. truncate without a limb; pet. 6-9 (usually 8j 

 acute, with an inflexed point; stam. shorter than pet.; disk 

 large but not prominent; ov. 6-9-celled ; styles O; fruit over 

 ] in., clavate-ovoid, faintly ribbed, yellow. 



Moist low country to 3000ft. or higher; common. Fl. June; yellow. 



Also in S. India. 



The leaves used as a cattle medicine. 



