730 Lxxi. AEALiAcia!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Hepta^leurum. 



Throughout ta:opieal and subtropical India, from the Nobtk-west HiMAtATA to 

 the South Deccan and Singaporb. — Distrib. Malaya and Tropical Australia. 



A smaE glabrous tree or climbing shrub. Leaflets 4 by 2 in., glabrous, entire, 

 acuminate, base subacute or rounded ; petiolules 1 in. or larger. Panicle small or 

 large ; lateral branches sometimes 1 in., compound ; bracts caducous, large, ovate, 

 hairy in the young panicle ; branohlets and pedicels glabrous or pubescent ; pedicels 

 ^-\ in. Bvds varying in size, and the disc after flowering is very prominent or not. 

 — The panicle branches become more delicate and the buds smaller in Burma, where 

 the plant is exactly Paratropia elliptica, Miq. ; while at Malacca the form coUeeted 

 by Dr. Maingay (No. 680) is P. micrantha, Miq. 



Vab. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 4918 (sp.) ; leaflets 6-8 in. — Amherst; Wallieh. 



9. K. stellatum, Gaertn. Fnict. ii. 472, t. 178; leaflets obovate ob- 

 tuse. Seem. Ren. Seder. 45. Hedera obovata, Wight Ic. t. 1011. H. Vahlii, 

 Thwaites Enum. 132. H. terebinthacea, Vahl Symb. iii. 42 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 



265; Wall. Cat. 4S20 partly. Paratropia terebinthacea, Am. PugiU. 20. 



South Decoan Peothsdia ; near Coimbatore, Wight. Nughiri Mts., Hohenaeicer 

 So. 1472. Cbtlon, abundant up to 3000 ft. alt. ; Thwaites. 



Altogether resembles S. vemdosvm except as to the obtuse obovate leaflets, and 

 may be merely a South Indian and Ceylon form of it. 



10. S. subulatum, Seem. Rev. Seder. 42 ; leaflets often 4^3 more 

 larely 5 oblong or elliptic acuminate, panicles linear. Paratropia subulata, 

 Miq. in Ann. Mug. Lugd. Bat. i. 22. 



PiNANG and Malacca ; GVi^iA (Kew Distrib. No. 2690); Maingay, No. 681. — 

 Distrib. Sumatra. 



Branchlets glabrous. Leaflets 5J by 2^ in., narrowed at both ends, glabro'us or 

 Tarely with scattered stellate woolly hairs beneath, entire or with a few teeth. Pamicle 

 in flower 10 by 1 in., in fruit nearly 3 in. broad, when young with scattered white 

 fiteUate wool; bracts J in., lanceolate, steUately white woolly, soon deciduous; 

 branches usually very short, sometimes 1 in. ; pedicels J-^ in,, always steUately to- 

 mentose when young. Fruit pentagonal, disc large, prominent. — May this be a state 

 of H. heterophyV/am 1. 



tt Leaves coriaceous, tertiary nerves not prominent above. 



11. K. Wallicbianuin, C. B. Clarke (not of Seemann) ; pedicels j— J in. 

 glabrous, buds ^ in. broad. H. exaltatum, Seem. Rev. Seder. 44. Paratropia 

 Wallichiana, W. S/- A. Prodr. 377. Hedera exaltata, Thwaites Enum. 4A. H. 

 Wallichiana, Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108. — Araliad sp. 19, Serb. Ind. Or. 

 S.f. 8f T. 



SocTH Dbocan Peninsitla; Kurg, Wight. Nilghiris, alt. 4000-6000 ft., near 

 Canoor, C. B. Clarke. Cbylon, alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; Thwaites. 



A large glabrous tree. Leaflets 5-10 by 2^-4 in., oblong or elliptic, acute, rounded 

 at the base, very leathery. Panicle oblong, about 12 by 3 in. ; buds glabrous, unusually 

 large. Fruit crowned by the much enlarged pentagonal disc, 



12. K. Itliaslanum, C. B. Clarke ; pedicels ^ in. steUately tomentose 

 'when young, buds A in. broad. H. Wallichianum, Seem. Rev. Seder. 44. — 

 Araliad sp. 20, Seib. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



Bhotan, Mishmee; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2694). Khasia Mts., alt. 3000- 

 €000 ft. ; H.f.^T.; C. B. Clarice. 



Leaflets attain 11 by 3 in., usually much smaller, narrow-oblong or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, the base sometimes almcist rounded, very coriaceous, entire ; pe- 

 tiolules often 1 J in. Panicle with white stellate tomentum on the branches pedicels 

 and backs of the petals, often a foot long in fruit ; lower branches elongate, ascend- 



