738 Lxxi. AEALiACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) IBrassaiopsis. 



6tellate--woolly ; pedicels J-J in., stout, rising from numerous persistent bracteoles 

 I in., less hairy than those of B. fioribunda. Young fruit much as in B. floribtmda ; 

 calyx-tube campanulate or obconie; disc prominently rayed, not greatly elevated; 

 style ^ in. — Possibly a large form of B. flciiiunda. 



10. B. aculeata, Seem. Rev. Seder. 19; leaflets serrate attenuate at 

 base suhsessile and often enveloped densely by bristles vrith stellate hairs on 

 both surfaces vyhen adult. Hedera aculeata, Drni Prodr. 187; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 264. H. sesculifolia, Wall. Cat. 49l3. Agalma sesculifoliuin, Seem. Rev. 

 Heder. 25. 



Kttmaon ; T. Thomson. Nipal ; Wallich. Khabia Mts., alt. 4000 ft., C. B. 

 Clarke. 



A small prickly tree. Leaflets 9 by 2f in., narrowly lanceolate-obovate, acumi- 

 hate, herbaceous, soft in texture, rusty stellate-tomentose, apex of the petiole very 

 hispid; in one example of Dr. Thomson's the digitate leaf is sometimes replaced by a 

 single entire leaf cordate at base. Faiiicle large, compound, greatly resembling that 

 of B. fiorihunda, young parts stellate rusty-woolly ; bracts at the base of the branches 

 ovate, short, persistent ; pedicels \-\ in., springing from a dense cluster of lanceolate 

 hairy persistent bracteoles Jin. FrvAt^'wi. long and broad, globose, subdidymous; 

 disc on the ripe fruit flat ; style ^-J in. — ^Wallich's Hedera asculifolia, in the Linnaean 

 Society's herbarium, and those marked Agalma (Bsaulifoliwm in the British Museum 

 by Seemann, are all 2-ovuled, and identical with Brassaiopsis aculeata. 



14. nXACROPAXTAX, Miq. 



Unarmed small trees. Leaves digitate, 3-5-foliolate, leaflets entire or 

 serrate, in the Indian species glabrous; stipules shortly connate within the 

 petiole or 0. Panicles large, branched ; bracts small, deciduous ; pedicels 

 jointed under the flowers'; flowers umbelled, polygamous. Calyx-teeth 5. 

 Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled ; styles united. Fruit ovoid or 

 Bubglobose or somewhat elongated upwards, striated or ribbed but hardly an- 

 gular. Seeds dorsaUy compressed ; albumen ruminated or very rugose. — Dis- 

 TEIB. Species 2, Nipal to Java. 



1. in. oreophiluin,, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 764 ; leaflets usually 

 denticulate serrate or crenulate, panicle-branches spreading stellately rnsty- 

 tomentose. Seem. Rev. Heder. 20 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 641. M. floribundum, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 764. Panaxserratum, Wall. Cat. 4915 ; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 253. Aralia disperma, Blume Bijd. 872. Hedera disperma, DC. Prodr. iv. 

 265.— Araliad sp. 8, Herh. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



From NiPAi, and Assam to Tenassbeim, alt. 500-7000 ft., frequent. — Distbib. 

 Malaya. 



Attains 30 ft. Leaflets 5 by 1^ in., lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes longer and 

 very narrow;', sometimes almost elliptic, base narrowed or rounded; petiolules 1-3 

 in. Panicle 1 ft., compound; bracts usually deciduous, inconspicuous ; pedicels J in., 

 stout, more or less stellate-hairy, the bracteoles few or deciduous. Fruit J in., 

 ovoid, sometimes elongated upwards ; disc large, conical, often wider than the top 

 of the fruit, crowned with the permanent style ^-1 in. 



2. Itl. undulatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 20 ; leaflets entire or very nearly 

 so, panicle-branches ascending glabrous. Hedera undulata, Wall. Cat. 4916 ; 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 394.— Araliad sp. 5, Herh. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ T. 



SiKXEsi, Bhotan, Assam and Khasia, alt. 500-6000 ft., common. Silhet station. 

 A small tree. Leaflets 3.^4 by 1^ in., lanceolate, acuminate, rarely ellipticr 



