1877.] Knowledge of the Bv/rmese Flora. 117 



inner side. Umbels, heads, or racemes forming compound inflorescences, rarely simple. 

 Leaves various. 



t t Styles united into a cone or column. 

 Brassaiopsis. Flowers 5-mcrou8. Fruits terete. Ovary 2 — 1 -celled. Pedicels 

 not jointed. Umbels forming- large terminal racemes. Leaves palmatifid, rarely 

 digitate. 



+ + Ovary 5- or more- (rarely by abortion 3 — 4-) celled. 

 Heptapleurxjm. Flowers 5 — 6- (rarely 4- or 7 — 8- ) merous. Drupes angled 

 and ribbed in a dried state. Umbels, beads, or racemes forming large compound 

 inflorescences. Pedicels not jointed. 



Trevesia. Flowers 8 — 12-merous. Drupes globular, sulcate or ribbed. Umbels 

 panicled. Leaves palmatifid, digitate, or pinnate. Pedicels not jointed. 

 X X Albumen ruminate. {Heclereai). 

 + Ovary 1-celled. 

 Arthbophyllum. Pedicels not jointed. Umbels compound. Leaves pinnate or 

 simple. 



+ + Ovary 2- or rarely 3 -celled. 



t Pedicels not jointed with the calyx. 

 Heteropanax. Styles distinct, filiform. Umbels racemose, in panicles. Leaves 

 pinnately decompound. 



t t Pedicels jointed under the calyx. 

 Macropanax. Styles united into a cone or column. Umbels or heads forming 

 panicles. Leaves digitate. 



* * Stamens numerous, and more numerous than the petals. Styles none or con- 

 nate. Fetals valvate or firmhj cohering. (Pleurandrse) . 

 TupiDANTHUs. Petals firmly cohering into a thick mitre. Gynoecium poly- (up 

 to 100- ) merous. Leaves digitate. 



A r alia, L. 

 1. A. AEMATA, Seem. Journ. Bot. YI. 134. {Panax armaticmj WaU. 

 ap. G. Don. Gen. Syst. III. 386 ; Walp. Eep. II. 429). 



Hab. Tenasserim, near Tavoy (Wall. Cat. 4933). — FI. Aug. 



Panax, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Leaves decompoundly 3-puinate, the segments spiny-serrate, P. frutieosum. 



Leaves 1-foliolate, P. cochleatum. 



*1. P. PEUTicosuM, L. sp. pi. 1515 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 76 ; Wight 

 Icon. t. 573. {NotJiopanax frutieosum, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. I/l. 765). 



Hab. Here and there cultivated in villages of Pegu and elsewhere. 



Brassaiopsis, Dene, and Planch. 



1. B. PALMATA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870. 77. {Panax 

 palmafum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 74 j Araliopsis Andamanica, Kurz in And. 

 Rep. App. B. 9). 



Hab. Chittagong (Roxb.) ; here and there in the tropical forests of 

 the Andamans. — Fr. May, June. 



