538 ARALIACER, [ Heptaplenrum, 
scurfy-tomentose, turning quite glabrous ; flowers on long jointed 
icels, arising in umbels from a dense head of rusty-tomentose 
bractlets and forming large axillary racemes at the end of the 
branches ; fruits elliptical, terete, the size of a large pea, crowned . 
by the minute calyx-teeth and the slender style-column, containing 
1 or often 2 pergamaceous 1-seeded pyrenes. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans; also Chittagong.— 
Fr. May-June.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
HEPTAPLEURUM, Gaertn. 
Calyx-limb hardly visible or the teeth minute. Petals 5 or 6, 
rarely more, valvate. Stamens as many as petals. Disk convex or 
conical, in the male flowers concave. Ovary with as many cells as 
petals ; styles united in a short cone or column, with as many sessile 
scarcely prominent stigmas as there are cells. Fruit almost globular 
(in a dried state often angular) with a fleshy pericarp; pyrenes 
laterally compressed, crustaceous, chartaceous or hard. Seeds 
laterally compressed. Albumen homogeneous.—Trees or tall shrubs, 
often chmbing, with digitate or digitately compound leaves. 
Flowers usually unisexual, in umbels or racemes, forming large 
panicles or rarely racemes. Pedicels not jointed. 
Climber, glabrous ; stigmas dot-like, immersed on the ovary . - H, venulosum. 
Erect trees ; styles united in an elongate column; leaflets on thick 
rather short petiolules, not lobed . . : = ‘ - HX. glaucum. 
Leaflets on very long and slender petiolules, usually pinnatilobed, 
quite glabrous. . s . . F : : - H. hypoleucum. 
1. H. venulosum, Seem.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 122; Brand. 
For. Fl. 249.—Baloo-let-wa.—An evergreen woody climber with 
cable-like stems, all parts glabrous ; bark smooth, grey or almost 
white; leaves digitately 7-9-foliolate, long-petioled; leaflets on 
_. long petiolules, obovate-oblong to oblong, rounded at the base, 
more or less acuminate, entire, pergamaceous or almost coriaceous, 
nerv laxly veined on both sides; flowers minute, greenish 
yellow, on slender pedicels, in small, long-peduncled umbellets, form- 
ing glabrous racemes collected into large terminal panicles 3 ealyx 
hardly 3 lin. in diameter; petals 4 lin. long; fruits the size of a 
_ pepper-kernel, sharply angulate. ~ 
ee ropes in the mixed forests all over Burma from Chittagong and 
Ava — to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—FI, Apr.-May.—_s+1—SS,—SiS, 
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