Brassaiopsis] LVIII. ARALIACE^ 353 



panicle. Leaflets almost entire, elliptic-oblong, when young often with scattered 

 stellate hairs, sec. n. arching, prominent beneath, blade 4r-8, pet. 1-3, common 

 petiole 12-24 in. long. Umbels many-fld., peduncles 1—4 in. long, in drooping 

 panicled racemes. Fr. more or less globose, hardly ribbed, J in. diam. crowned 

 by the flat circular disk and the connate styles. Seeds usually 1, sometimes 2, 

 surface irregularly grooved. Albumen not or very slightly ruminate. 



Sikkim, to 5,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Ghittagong. Hills east of Bhamo, 

 Upper Burma, at 5,500 ft. Fl. B. S. Yunnan. 9. B. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke. Sikkim 

 2-7,000 ft. Khasi hills. A prickly tree, young sin mis. inflorescence, petioles and leave- 

 beneath with stellate woolly tomentum, leaflets coarsely serrate, blade 4-18, pet. J-3 in. 

 long, in. B. aculeata, Seem. Kumarai 2,000 ft. Nepal. Khasi hills. A small tree, 

 armed with stoul conical prickles, young shoots densely rusty fomentose, leaflets serrate, 

 thinly membranous, blade 6-9, pet. J— | in. lone:, sometimes one leader only, full grown 

 leaflets with minute scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces. 



9. MACROPANAX, Miq. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 738. 



Small unarmed trees. L. digitate, leaflets 3-5, glabrous. Panicles large, 

 bracts small deciduous, fl. unibelled, polygamous, pentamerous, pedicels articu- 

 late under the fl. Petals valvate, ovary 2-celled, styles united. Fr. ribbed, 

 seed dorsally compressed. Species 2. 



1. M. oreophilum, Miq. : Kurz F. Fl. i. 541. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree. Leaflets glabrous, lanceolate, denticulate, 

 serrate or crenulate, blade 4-6. pet. j-3, common petiole 4-10 in. long. Umbels 

 in long compound panicles, the ramifications of which, as well as pedicels, are 

 clothed with rusty stellate pubescence. Fr. elongate-ovoid, {-J in., disk 

 conical, style | in. long. 



Eumaon. outer hills, ascending to 5,000 ft., Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan. Assam. Khasi 

 hills. Chittagong. Hills east of Toungoo. Yunzalin. Upper Burma (Kurz). Fl. 

 July-Sept. Yunnan. 2. M. undulatum, Seem. Sikkim, outer hills to 5,000 ft. (Chinia, 

 Nop. Assam. Khasi hills. Silhet. Yunnan. A small tree, leaflets entire, panicle 



gla brous. 



Arthrophyllum diversifolium, Blume. — Syn. A. javanicum, Blume; Kurz F. Fl. i. 540. 

 Andaman-.. Mala; Peninsula. A shrub or small tree. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, 



the lower bi- or tripinnate, the in ten Liate pinnate, the uppermost opposite, simple or 



trifoliolate. Inflorescence a com pound umbel, peel uncles and pedicels clothed with rusty- 

 brown deciduous stellate tomentum, pedicels nol articulate. Calyx-teeth 5, small, petals 

 valvale, ovary 1-cidlcd. 1-ovuled, style simple. S 1 nearly globose, not ridged, albumen 



ruminate. 



Braasaia capitata, C. B.Clarke. Nilgiris. L. digitate, leaflets enl ire, rigidly coriaceous 

 elliptic, blade I 7, pet. 2 in. long. PI. in compact globose pedunculate heads, each fl. 

 gurrounded bj I bracteoles, as long as ovary and united below into a mho. Peduncles 

 1—1 A in. long, in t In' axils of ovate persistent membranous bracts, in racemes 12—16 in. 



long, on a stoul rachis. Petals 6 L0, thick, valvate, si us and ovary cells as manj as 



petals. Fr. obconic, ribbed below. 



in. TREVESIA, Visiani : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 731. 



Species I, Malay Arcliip.) 



T. palmata, Vis. ; Kurz P. Fl, i. 539. Vera. Bato, Burm, 

 A small evergreen generally unbranched tree, armed with short very sharp 

 prickles, young Bhonts rusty pubescent and very prickly. Leaves orbicular in 



general outline, 12 21 in. diam., deeply palmatifid, lobes acuminate, seixate, 

 Bometimea Lobed, often cm away in one or several places, so as to leave the 

 midrib of tic- lobe free, petiole often prickly. Fl. large, umbels panicled, 

 pedicels qo! articulate. Young panicles clothed with rusty tomentum, bracts 

 1 in. lone-. Calyx-limb Eree, undulate or repand- toothed, petals 8 12, valvate, 



