Heptapleurum.] ARALIACES. 5438 
_ often polygamous; umbels in large compound panicles, young 
Parts stellately tomentose ; bracts small, often persistent ; pedicels 
ted. 
_ Sepals connate in a 5-toothed calyx. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 
5. Carpels 2, connate in a 2-celled ovary; styles long or short, 
; united 5 stigmas apical, oblique, introrse. Fruit a globose or tur- 
ie drupe ; pyrenes 2, or by abortion 1. Seed not compressed ; 
albumen ruminate. 
Leaves ttre a palmate, divided about half-way down into ogee rh 
segmen i. 
rere ee 
Leaves compound, digitate ; petioles long ; leaflets lanceolate or oi 
a iosa 
920. Brassaropsis patmata Kurz; F. B. I. ii. 735. Panar fue 
matum FF, I, ii. 74 
Chittagong. 
A small tree, prickly towards tips of branches. 
921. Brassaropsts spectosa Dene & Planch. ; F. B. I. ii. 787; 
E. D. B. 798. 
Chittagong. 
small tree, ends of branches, and sometimes also the 
panicle, prickly. 
397. Panax Linn. 
= Btame ens 5. Carpels 2, sols 3, oe in a 2-3- 
ed ovary ; styles distinct. Fruit a subcompressed or globose, 
tarely 3-seeded berry, the carpels rounded on the back. Seed 
ei compressed or subterete, smooth or sulcate ; albumen 
922. Panax rRuTICOsUM Linn.; F. L. ii. 76; F. B. I. 725. 
Cultivated. 
A shrub, 3-6 feet high. 
398. Heptapleurum Gaertn. 
Pics ae ore soarenaes climbing, © 
ompound digitate, or 1 
trees, unarmed ; leaves 
dear leaflets cori- 
lobed, those of the aa a0 
4 Pete oan or pisces toothed or 
almost ost always entire; stipules prominent, | 
