536 ARALIACER. [ Aralia. 
* — ee or less imbricate in bud. Gynoecium 2-5- 
‘Styles hee: leaves pinnate or decompoun Aralia, 
* Pet s valvate in bud, or spa firmly cokering. 
Stelios man sing 
+ Album er at Se te 
aay) teclgsi 2- Greil 1-4) -celled. Flowers 5. 
Styles from the base 5 fears erect, then — _— — 
1-foliolate, or rarely eel or digi cee a 
under ne fags . Panaz. 
Sti, and divergin ng ; styles united in a column ; 
cs palmatif or lob — pedicels not jointed - Brassaiopsis. 
x X Ovary 5- or more accu by abortion 3-4) 
5 4 Pedicels jointed below the cies On leaves 
: . Polyscias. 
+ t+ Pedicels not t jointed. 
pee digitate; flowers 5- 6 (rarely-8 meres ‘ ‘ . . Heptapleurum. 
Leaves often palmatifid ; flowers 8-12-m x ‘. . Trevesia. 
on Albumen ne _ 
Pedicels not jointed; ovary 1 3 leaves pinnate or simple . Arthrophyllum, 
Pedicels not jointed ; leaves innately pompous: ovary 2-celled . Heteropanar. 
Pedicels jointed ; leaves digi ; . Macropanaz. 
a0 Stamens tin oe peta Is firmly cohering ; gynoe- 
cium up to 100-merous; leavesdigitate .  . Tupidanthus. 
ARALTIA, L. 
Calyx-limb somewhat prominent, truncate, repand or very shortly 
5-toothed. Petals 5, blunt or very shortly inflected, acuminate, 
more or less imbricate in bud. Stamens 5; anthers oblong or rarely 
ovate. Disk almost flat or sometimes conical, with a free border. 
Ovary 2-5-celled ; styles free or shortly united, the stigmas termi- 
nal. Fruits laterally compressed or {in a dried state) 3-5-cornered, 
the pericarp fleshy ; pyrenes 2-5, compressed, ui gaa or hard. 
Albumen homogeneous.—Perennials, hie or small trees, often 
armed with bristles or thorns, the naa somewhat Seca tcont 
from the base of the petiole. Leaves alternate, pinnate or pinnately 
pound. Flowers usually _paaemonely dioecious, in umbels, 
or panicles. Pedicels jointed. 
1. A. armata, Seem Oke evergreen small tree; leaves decom- 
pound, the petiole and rachises all glabrous and sparingly beset 
with hooked thorns; leaflets ovate-oblong or oblong, on very short 
| mapid petiolules or almost sessile, finely acuminate, serrulate, mem- 
» 13-2 in. long, minutely inspid and, especially along the 
with stiff. b 
“ ristles ; flowers minute, whitish, on 
‘stiff, heat 2 lin. _ long, hispid pedicels, forming small peduncled 
"3 arranged to large, lax, shortly hispid, but partially glabres- 
size of: a uanees glabrous, 5-mero 
In =f thorny seeing at the end of the branchlets ; —— 
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