Me^ptaplmmm.] lxxi. aealiace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 729 



remote serratuies or shallow lobes ; petiolules 1 in. Panicle much as in H. elAtvm, 

 nearly glabrous or more or less pubescent or stellately -woolly. 



5. B. rostratum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ii. p. 122 ; leaflets glabrous lanceo- 

 late or eLiptic narro-wed at both ends coriaceous, tertiary nerves obscure above, 

 petals glabrous or nearly so. Hedera rostrata, Wight le. t. 1013. Agalma 

 rostratum, Seem. Hev. Seder. 25. 



NiLGHiHis ; Wiffhi ; Gardner, alt. 7000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. (The Sikkim locality 

 given by Seeman is an error.) 



A small branched tree. Leaflets 4J by lj-2 in., entire or denticulate ; petiolules 

 1-1 in. Panicle 8 in., branches often bearing one umbel each only ; bracts shortly 

 ovate, persistent ; pedicels ^J in., glabrous or stellately pubescent, springing from 

 a dense tuft of permanent bracteoles. 



Tab. micrantka ; flowers and fruit smaller, pedicels and bracteoles glabrous. — 

 Sisparah, Nilghiri Mts., Wight. 



,tt Pedicels VMially raeemed, 



6. B. racemosum, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 214; leaflets glabrous entire nar- 

 rowed at both ends, pedicels glabrous or often rusty stellately woolly. Hedera 

 racemosa, Wight Ic. t. 1015 ; Thwaites Enum. 132. Agalma racemosum. Seem, 

 Eeii. Seder. 24. 



NrLomEis; Gardner; Canoor, alt. 6000 ft., Wight. Anamailat Mts. alt. 

 3000-6000 ft. ; Beddome. Cetlon, alt. 3000-5000 ft. ; Thwaites,. 



A large tree. Leaflets 6 by 2^ in., elliptic or lanceolate, subobtuse or cuspidate, 

 coriaceous, tertiary nerves above obscure; petiolules often l-lj in. Panicle 

 6-12 -in., the ends of the branches bracts and pedicels rusty pubescent while young ; 

 bracts shortly ovate, persistent ; pedicels | in. Flowers at first often umbelled, the 

 fruits usually distinctly raeemed. — Closely allied to the preceding species : some of 

 Thwaites' specimens are not raeemed at all, even in fruit. 



SxTBeiiN^. n. Eu-Keptapleurum. Styles short, not connate into b. 

 narrow cylindric column. 



* Leaves 1- (rarely 1-3-) foliolate. 



7. K. emarg'inatuin, Seem. Rev. Seder. 4A; leaves cuneate-oblong 

 emarg^ate. panicles 1-2 in., umbels 2-5-flowered. Hedera emarginata, Moon 

 Cat. PI. Ceylon ; Thwaites JEnum. 132. 



Ceyion, up to 4000 ft. ; Walker, Thwaites. 



A climbing glabrous shrub. Leaflets |-1J by |-J in., narrowed at the base, sub- 

 sessile, broadest at the very summit and there distinctly emarginate or 2-lobed, 

 nerves on both surfaces raised. Pedicels ^ in., spreading ; bracts or early fugacious. 

 Flowers very small, white tinged red {Thwaites). 



** Leaves simply digitate ; leaflets usually 5-7. 



t Beticulating nerves prominent on the upper surface of the leaflets. 



8. H. vennlosum, Seem. Rev. Seder. 44; leaflets oblong or elliptic 

 acute usually broadest below the middle. Brand. For. Fl. 249 ; Kura For. Fl. 

 1. 538. H. eUipticum, Seem. Seder. 43. Paratropia venulosa, W. 8r A. Prodr. 

 377; Wight III. t. 118. P. elliptica and macrantha, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 756. Hedera venosa, Wall. Cat. 4923. H. terebinthacea, Wall. Cat. 4920 

 partly. Aralia digitata, Roxb. Sort.Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 107. SciadophyUum 

 effipticum, Blume Bijd. 878 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 260.— JBAeerfe Sort. Mai. vii. 

 t. 28. Araliad sp. 18, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f Sr T. 



