Eeteropcmax.] Lxxr. ARALiACEiE. (C. B, Clarke.) 73$ 



Leaflets 3J by If in., elliptic, shortly acuminate, little narrowed' at the base, 

 glabrous, entire, nerves not very prominent; petiolules 0-^ in. Panicle often 12-16 

 in., branches 4-8 in. ; umbels dense subcapitate in flower ; pedicels in fruit elongating 

 to i in. and more. JPruit |- by ^ in. and ^ in. thick, ultimately glabrous and often 

 glaucous. 



Vae. 1. typka; leaflets elliptic shortly acuminate, base slightly narrowed. 



Vab. 2. aubcordata; leaflets ovate shortly acuminate, base rounded or even 

 cordate. 



Vah. 3. attemiata • leaflets i\ by IJ in., attenuate acuminate, much narrowed at 

 base. — Bengal Plain. China. — This may be a distinct species. 



13. BRASSAXOPSIS, Dene. ^ Ranch. 



Large shrulja or trees, glabrous or tomentose, armed or not. Leaves digitate 

 or palmate or angled; stipules connate within the petiole, not prominent. 

 Umbels in large compound panicles, young parts at least stellately tomentose ; 

 hracts not large, often persistent ; pedicels rising from a dense cluster of per- 

 sistent bracteoies, not jointed under the flower; flowers often polygamous. 

 Calyx 6-toothed. Petds 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-ceUed; styles 2, 

 united, long or short. Fj-uit broadly globose or turbinate, 2- or by abortion 

 1-seeded. Seed not compressed; albumen ruminated. — Disteib. Species 10, 

 &om Nipal to Java. 



* Leaves undivided. 



1. B. slmplicifolla, C. B. Clarke; upper leaves simple lanceolate 

 serrate, adult glabrous. 



MiSHMEE ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2699). 



Bramchlets prickly, glabrous or with a little hard close tomentum. Leaves near 

 the panicle alone seen (the lower may be divided) 9 by 3J in., acute, subacute at the 

 base, sharply serrated, membranous, nerves much elevated ; petiole \\ in. ; stipules 

 not prominent. Komig panicle 5 in., nearly glabrous, branches slightly compound ; 

 bracts \ in., lanceolate ; pedicels J in. vrith scattered stellate hairs, rising ^om a 

 dense tuft of bracteoies. — Marked by Seemann as new gen\is, vrath a note that the 

 petals are imbricate. They are, however, valvate, and it is clearly a Brassaiopsis. 



2. B. Kainla, Seem. Rev. Seder. 18, partly; leaves divided less than 

 half-way down into triangular cuspidate segments, fruit broadly orbicular. 

 Brassaiopsis confluens. Seem. Sev. Sed. 18 {as to the fruit). Hedera Hainla, 

 Sam. in Don Prodr. 187; DC. Prodi: iv. 253. Panax curcifolia, Oriff. Itin. 

 Notes, 145.— Araliad sp. 28, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. 8r T. 



Tempeeate Himalaya, alt. 3000-6000 ft., from Nipai. to Bhotan ; Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. No. 2668); J. D. H.; C. B. Clarke. 



A small tree, the ends of the branches prickly, young parts stellately tomentose. 

 Leaves 4^9 in. diam., truncate or cordate at the base, subspinose-toothed, finally 

 glabrous above and nearly so beneath the hispidulous or stellate hairs distantly 

 scattered. Bracts to the panicle-branches ovate, short, densely stellate-tomentose, 

 persistent. Buds densely steUate-tomentose. Pedicels i-| in., rising from a dense 

 duster of bracteoies I in. oblong and very tomentose. Fruit j by | in., globose, sub- 

 \f ^idymous. Style | in. on the fruit. 



3. B. palmata, Kwz For. Fl. i. 537 ; leaves palmate divided about half- 

 way down into oblong acute segments, fruit ellipsoid or turbinate, longer than 

 broad. Panax palmatum, Roxb. Sort. Being. 21, Fl. Ind. ii. 74. Araliopsis 

 andamanica, Kwt. in Andaman Rep. App. B. 9. Hedera polyacantha. Wall. 

 PI. As. Ran: t. 190.— Araliad sp. 33, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. ^ T. 



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