Panax. | ARALIACER. — 537 
PANAX, L. 
Calyx limb usually slightly prominent, truncate or shortly 5- 
toothed. Petals 5, valvate, often cohering with their tips. Sta 
mens 5. Disk broad and not thie hick, the margins sometimes pro- 
minent. Ovary 2- rarely 3 8-celled; styles 2, rarely 3, erect and 
sometimes cohering, then distinct and recurved. Fra it flattened, 
with a more or less succulent pericarp; pyrenes hardened, some- 
times 2-ribbed on the dorsal edge. Albumen homogeneous.— 
Trees or shrubs, with decompound or 1-foliolate, rarely pinnate or 
digitate leaves. Flowers in umbels, heads or racemes, forming 
usually compound racemes or panicles. Pedicels jointed. 
ves decompound-tripinnate ; leaflets ig ela ? . PL. fruticosus, 
Leaves 1-foliolate ; leaflets acutely s serrate . . . . P. cochleatum. 
1. P. fruticosus, L.—An evergreen shrub, all parts glab- 
rous; leaves decompound-tripinnate, 1-14 ft. long; leaflets vari- 
able in shape, usually more or less lanceolate, the lowermost ones 
usually broader, often variously laciniate, bristly-serrate, acuminate, 
1-2 in. long, membranous, glabrous; flowers small, greenish white; 
in small umbellets forming large terminal glabrous panicles ; calyx- 
limb 5-toothed; petals 5, linear, first spreading, then reflexed ; 
berry 2- or 3-lobed, small, "Jead-coloured. 
ene era cultivated in the shade of villages in the southern parts 
of Burma.—Fl. —_ 
“BRASSAIOPSIS, Dene. & Planch. 
Calyx-limb usually somewhat ayy minutely 5-toothed. 
Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5; filaments filiform. Disk broad, 
oom narrowed into the style-column. Cane often also 1- 
; stigmas sessile and diverging. Fruits Seca or oblong, 
Sista, the ‘endocarp pergamaceous, didymous or ae the pericarp 
more or less succulent or chartaceous. Seeds hemispherical or 
terete. Albumen homogeneous.—Small trees of the habit of Tre- 
vesia, with aoe or lobed leaves. Flowers in umbels 
fro 
of the 
; ea palmately 7-9-lobed (the lobes broad, shortly acumi- 
soe ware : (th the base), remotely toothed, 
fnembrahous, while young along with the petiole densely 
