iJmdo'opcmax,'] lxxi. aealiacej!. (C. B. Clarke.) 733 



10. DXSXTDROPANAX, Bene, (f- Hanck. 



Trees or shruljs, glabrous, unarmed. Leaves simple, entire, on young shoots 

 polymoTphous, palmately 3-5-lobed ; stipules small, scarcely united within the 

 petiole. Umbels solitary or in small panicles ; bracts small or ; pedicels not 

 jointed under the flower. •Calyx-margin entire or 6-toothed. Petals 5, valvate, 

 "somewhat thick. Stamens 6. Ovary 6-celled ; styles united into a column at 

 the base, their summits (in the Indian species) spreading, i^j*' globose or 

 ellipsoid, distinctly or obscurely 6-ribbed. Seeds compressed ; albumen uniform. 

 — DlSTEiB. Species 20, mostly tropical American ; four species in China, Japan, 

 and E. India. 



1, D. japonicum. Seem. Rev. Seder. 27 ; leaves densely glandular, 

 fruit ellipsoid much longer than broad distinctly ribbed. Hedera japonica, 

 Jwngh. in Walp. Rep.- ii. 431 (ex Seem.). — Araliad sp. 34, Serb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. Sr T. 



Khasia Mts„ alt. 4000-5000 ft. ; H. f. ^ T.; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2681, 

 2679). — ^DiSTBiB. Japan. 



Appears to be an erect shrub or very smaJl tree. Leaves (those near the umbels) 

 4 by 2-3 in., oblong or elliptic, acute, entire, l_3-5-nerved from the base ; petiole 

 ^-2 in. ; polymorphous leaves on young shoots sometimes 8 in. diani., deeply 3-5- 

 palmated ; segments narrowly lanceolate, often remotely and minutely toothed ; 

 petiole 6-8 in. Vmhds solitary or 2-3, panicled ; pedicels J in. Frvit f by I in., 

 somewhat pentagonal. 



2. D. parvifiorum, Bemth. Fl. Hongk. 137; leaves not densely glan- 

 dular usually 3-nerved at the base oblong or elliptic acute, fruits subglobose 

 obscurely ribbed. Seem. Rev. Seder. 27. Hedera parviflora. Champ, in Sooh. 

 Kew Joum. Bot. iv. 122. 



Mount Ophir, Maxacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2685) ; Maingay, No. 682. — 

 DisTBiB. Hongkong. 



Apparently an erect shrub. Leaves 3 J by 2^ in., entire or very obscurely toothed, 

 glands not visible on the young leaves even; petiole J-l^ in. Umbels mostly 

 solitary ; pedicels \ in. Fruit \ in. diam. — The branchleta from Mount Ophir have 

 all entire leaves as they carry umbels ; the Hongkong young shoots have polymor- 

 phous palmate leaves. D.protemn, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 136, has the upper leaves very 

 narrowly lanceolar, mostly 1-nerved from the base, but is perhaps only a variety of 

 the present species. 



11. AB.TKROF»VI.3:.U»I, 



Shrubs or small trees, unarmed. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, lower 

 usually alternate and compoundly pnnate, uppermost opposite and simple, 

 intermediate 3-f6liolate; leaflets easily separable from the rhachis; stipules 

 united within the petiole. Pedwncks mostly forming a terminal umbel, each 

 ending in a simple (or slightly compound) umbel of flowers ; bracts very small; 

 pedicels not jointed under the flower. Calyx-teeth 6, small. Petals 5, valvate. 

 Stamms 5. Ovary 1-celled 1-ovuled; style short, simple. Fruit (in the 

 Indian species) ovoid, not angular. Seed subglobose ; albumen ruminated.— 

 DiaiEiB. Species 3, Malayan. 



1, A. diversifolium, Blume Bijd. 879 ; leaves near the umbels usually 

 all simple, leaflets subobtuse or shortly acuminate. DC. Prodr. iv. 266; 



