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umbellules, their peduncles l'5-2 in. long ; pedicels glabrous or with 

 rusty stellate deciduous pubescence ; fruit sub-globose, shining, *15 in. 

 in diam. Panax pinnatum, Lamk. Diet. II, 715 ; DC. Prodr. IV, 254 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 9057. P. secunda, Schultz Syst. VI, 215. Nothopanax? 

 pinnatum, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 766. 



Penang; Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 679. Malacca; Main- 

 gay 677; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2676; Ridley 3224. Perak ; Wray 

 330, 1475 ; Scortechini 352. 



7. Wardenia, new genus. 



A miniature tree with prickly stem, otherwise unarmed. Leaves 

 coriaceous, simple, on long terete petioles expanded at the base into 

 a short sheath with 2 minute stipules on its inner surface. Inflores- 

 cence a terminal shortly-branched compound umbel. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite. Calyx-tube narrowly campanulate, its limb with 5, small, 

 spreading teeth. Petals 5, calyptrate, their edges slightly infolded, 

 valvate below, slightly imbricate near the apex ; the midribs prominent 

 on the inner surface. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals ; the fila- 

 ments short, straight ; the anthers versatile ; the cells linear, quite 

 separate from each other, each united by its middle to the tip of 

 the filament. Disc large, fleshy, convex, covering the whole of the 

 apex of the ovary, slightly 5-lobed. Styles united to form a short 

 thick column without any distinct stigmatic enlargement ; ovary 1- 

 celled, with 2 parallel pendulous ovules. Fruit 2-celled, by the form- 

 ation of a dissepiment not present in the ovary, 2-seeded ; seeds com- 

 pressed. A single species. 



This genus is allied to Arthrophyllum ; but its ovaries, although one-celled, have 

 two pendulous ovules. The fruit, however, is two-celled, by the subsequent form- 

 ation of a dissepiment, and is 2-seeded. The leaves moreover are all simple. The 

 seeds of the few specimens which I have seen are quite young and the nature of 

 the albumen cannot be made out. I have named the genus in honour of my friend 

 Brigade- Surgeon Lt. -Colonel C. J. H. Warden, a distinguished pharmacologist and 

 one of the authors of the Pharmacographia Indica. 



Wardenia simplex, King. A shrub 6-8 in. high, deciduously 

 rufous-pubescent towards the apex, prickly near the base. Leaves 

 simple, elliptic, tapering gradually to the shortly acuminate apex, not 

 narrowed to the slightly cordate base ; both surfaces bearing minute 

 scattered rusty steUate hairs ; length 8-15 in., breadth 35-7 in., 

 petiole 5-10 in. Flower buds 1 in. in diam., conical ; pedicels *6-9 

 in. long, slender, rusty-pubescent, the umbels 10-20-flowered. Calyx 

 slightly rusty-pubescent. Petals glabrous. Fruit elliptic-globose, sub- 

 glabrous, *2 in. long, crowned by the calyx and by the slender conic 

 stylar column. 



