542 BENGAL PLANTS. [Aralia. 
*Ovary 4- or more-chambered; albumen of seed uniform ; pedicels 
continuous; leaves not pinnate ; styles united, at least at the base:— 
541 
Leaves (in our apse perfectly digitately pompennag sa Pop 
not larger than a p 
Leaves simple, pee eae lobed, or (eee yagi 
ompound ; fruit ovoid, °5 in. long ..........:eceeeeeeeeeereeeees Tre 
394. Aralia Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees, glabrous, hairy, or prickly ; leaves 
alternate or whorled, digitate, pinnate, or compound pinnate; 
leaflets serrate or nearly entire; stipules small. Flowers often 
polygamo-monecious, in solitary, less often racemed or pani 
umbels, rarely in compound umbels ; pedicels jointed or not close 
to the flower. Sepals 5, connate in a truncate or 5- -toothed calyx. 
Petals 5; ovate, imbricate. Stamens 5. Carpels 2-5, connate in 
a 2-5-celled ovary; styles 2-5, free or, in fertile flowers, -~ 
connate at base. Fruit a small, 4-5-celled and 4-5- angled, 
ae -ce let and subglobose berry. Seeds compressed; ‘ines 
ane, Amiais FOLIOLOSA Seem.; F. B. I. ii. 723. 
Chittagon 
A large lax shrub, armed with numerous prickles. 
. 395. Heteropanax See 
A small unarmed tree ; leaves very large, gira decompo 2a 
almost minen ‘ 
polygamous, umbels racemed, more or less mee ai, 
peri aco the terminal umbel of each branch of the raceme — 
; bracts small, ovate, obtuse, persistent ; pedicels - 
: Petals 5 
, Carpels 0. 
styles 2, distinct ehent.a spreading. Fruit a laterally com 
pressed, 2-seeded berry. Seed compressed ; — ruminate. 
919. HeTeRoPanax FRAGRANS Seem.; F. B. I. ii. 784. - 
fragrans F, 1. ii. 76, 
Chota eae E. Bengal ; Chittagong. 
A small unarmed tree. Vernac. Guti-suna. 
396. Brassaiopsis Dene & Planch. ae 
Large shrubs or trees, armed or not ; leaves digitate or palms 
or angled ; stipules intrapetiolar, connate, not prominent. * 
