Tetrameles. | _ ARALIACER. «685 
1. T, nudiflora, R. Br.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 212 —Thit-pouk.— 
A tree erm —150 + 80—100+4 10— —15), leafless during H.S., the 
young shoots tawny pubescent or velvety, the trunk much buttressed 
at the base; bark grey, ¢ in. thick, smooth, beset with numerous 
bursted warts about an inch thick, the outer pergamaceous skin 
easily separating ; cut dry, pale brown ; leaves rotundate or broadly 
ovate, on 23-4 in. long petioles, rounded or almost truncate at the 
ase, acute or acuminate, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, irregularly 
bluntish toothed, membranous, 8-5 in. long and nearly as broad, 
beneath puberulous or pubescent ; the nerves very pin flowers 
very small, apetalous, greenis oecious, sessile or nearly s 
puberulous spikes crowded at ‘the apex of the rather thick leaileis 
branchlets; calyx glandular-viscose, in the females about a line 
long ; capsules ovoid-globular, the size of a pepper-kernel, mem- 
branous, viscose, open at the 4-styled almost 4-angular mouth. 
Has.—More or less common in the tropical forests all over Burma from 
Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans; rare along choungs 
ofthe Prome district.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. May-June.—s. 1.—SS.=Metam. 
; RemMARxKS.—Wood brown, light, coarse-fibrous, rather loose-grained, value- 
ess. 
ARALIACEA. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, regular. Calyx-limb 
forming a slightly raised line or short cup round the summit, trun- 
cate or toothed, or quite inconspicuous. Petals 5 or more, rarely 
4, valvate, shortly inflected at the tip and often cohering (very rarely 
blunt and imbricate). Stamens as many as petals or sometimes 
more ; anthers versatile, the cells parallel and opening longitudinally. 
Ovary inferior, 2- or more- rarely by abortion 1-celled, with a single 
anatropous ovule in each cell suspended from the summit ; styles as 
many as cells, either distinct with small terminal stigmas, or united 
in a cone, or more or less reduced to a slight protuberance with 
inconspicuous § stigmas. Fruit more or less drupaceous and indehis- 
cent, the epicarp succulent, rarely almost dry and thin. Seeds, 
solitary, pendulous, enclosed in in pyrenes. Albumen homogeneous or 
Embryo minute, near the apex, with a superior radicle.— 
eg palm-like, shrubs, or climbers, with alternate, compound, 
or rarely simple leaves. Stipules none. Flowers small, in umbels 
or heads, often collected into panicles. : 
This “family includes the ginseng-root (Panaz ginseng, Mey.) 
