ARALIACEAE 357 



and alternate with them. Ovary inferior, 2- or 3-celled; styles 2 or 3, 

 very short. Fruit somewhat drupe-like, compressed or 3-angled. (Greek 

 "false" and Panax, an allied genus.) 



1. Iieaves simple, rounded, somewhat saucer-like 1. N. cochleatum 



1. Leaves pinpate. "~~ 



2. Leaflets 11 to 17, frequently pinnately lobed, pale-green or yellowish. 



2. N. ornatum 



2. Leaflets 5 to 7, margined or mottled with white 3. iV. guilfoylei 



1. Leaves 2-pinnate or 3-pinnate. 

 2. Leaflets broadly obovate to oblong-obovate, the leaves ternately decom- 

 pound 4. N, crispatum 



2. Leaflets linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acuminate, the leaves 

 pinnately decompound 5. N. fruticosum 



* 1. N. COCHLEATUM (Lam.) Miq. (Panax cochleatum DC). Platitos (Sp.- 



Fil.). 



An erect shrub 1.5 to 3.5 m high with simple, suborbicular, cordate, 

 somewhat concave, saHcer41ke_leaves__6 to 12 cm in diameter, the margins 

 distantly spinulose-dentate. Umbels dense, paniculate. 



Commonly cultivated, but rarely or never flowering here. Cultivated 

 throughout Malaya and Polynesia, certainly introduced in the Philippines. 



* 2. N. ORNATUM (Bull.) Merr. (Panax ornatum Bull.). 



An erect, slightly branched shrub, 1 to 3 m high. Leaves pale-green, the 

 younger ones yellowish, pinnate, 30 to 60 cm in length. Leaflets 11 to IT, 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, irregular in shape and sisse, 8 

 to 20 cm long, deeply and narrowly pinnately lobed to irregularly toothed, 

 some teeth coarse, others fine, all sharply pointed. Panicles in the upper 

 axils or terminal, up to 40 cm long, somewhat pendulous, diffuse. Flowers 

 greenish-white. Fruit dark-purplish, somewhat fleshy when fresh, ovoid, 

 5 mm long, when dry more or less 3-sulcate, 3-celled. 



Quite commonly cultivated, fl. Feb.-March, and probably in other months. 

 Thought to have originated in Brazil, but apparently now widely distrib- 

 uted in the tropics in cultivation. 



* 3. N. GUILFOYLEI (Cogn. & Marche) Merr. (Aralia guilfoylei Cogn. &. 



Marche) . 



An erect shrub 2 to 3 m high, slightly branched. Leaves pinnate, 20 to 

 50 cm long. Leaflets 5 to 7, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5 to 13 cm long, margins 

 distantly, prominently, and sharply serrate, apex obtuse, base often slightly 

 inequilateral, the margins white, the upper surface also frequently blotched 

 with white. 



Commonly cultivated, rarely or never flowering here. Probably a native 

 of Polynesia, but now widely cultivated in Malaya and in other regions. 



A form apparently exactly the same except that the leaves are uniformly 

 gree, not margined or mottled with white, is also found in cultivation, which 

 may be N. pinnatum Miq. 



* 4. N. CKiSPATUM (Bull.) Merr. (Panax crispatum Bull.). 



An erect shrub 1 to 2 m high. Leaves up to 20 cm long, ternately 

 decompound, the leaflets oblong-obovate to broadly obovate, borne in 

 threes on the ultimate branchlets of the rachis, green, 2 to 4 cm long, 

 obtuse, base usually acute, margins deeply, coarsely, and irregularly toothed, 

 the teeth usually spinulose. 



