250 XLII. AEALIACE^. [Fatsia. 



Fatsia papyrifera, Decaisne.— Syn. Aralia papyrifera, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 

 4897, the Chinese Eice-paper plant ; belongs to this order. It is a shrub with 

 large white pith, from which the rice-paper is cut, and large palmately 

 5-lobed leaves with stellate pubescence. Indigenous in Formosa, and culti- 

 vated in China. 



Oedbr XLIII. CORNACE.ffi. 



Shrubs or trees, with leaves usually petiolate, entire, without stipules. 

 Plowers regular, the calyx-tube adnata to the ovary ; limb none or cup- 

 shaped, truncate or 4-5-dentate, persistent, open or valvate in bud. Petals 

 wanting, or 4-5 inserted at the base of an epigynous disc. Stamens as 

 many as petals, rarely 2 or 4 times their number ; anthers 2-celled, de- 

 hiscing longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 1-4-ceUed, 1, rarely 2 ovules in 

 each cell, pendulous. Fruit generally drupaceous, with a 1-4-celled ker- 

 nel, or with 2 distinct stones. Seeds pendulous, with a membranous thin 

 coriaceous testa, copious fleshy albumen, and generally thin foHaceous 

 cotyledons.— Gen. PI. i. 947 ; Eoyle lU. 215 (Alangiece), 234 ; "Wight lU. 

 ii. 1, 68. 



Leaves alternate ; petals strap-shaped ; anthers long, basifixed ; 

 style elongate. 

 Stamens numerous ; flowers fasciculate ..... 1. AlAngium. 

 Stamens as many as petals ; flowers paniculate ... 2. Mablea. 

 Leaves generally opposite ; petals short ; anthers short, attached 



to the back ; style short 3. Cobnus. 



1. ALANGIUM, Lam. 



Shrubs or small trees, with alternate, petiolate, oblong, entire, persistent 

 leaves with 3 basal nerves. Flowers white, bisexual, in axillary fascicles. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, somewhat prolonged beyond the ovary, truncate 

 or 5-10-dentate. Petals 5-10, strap-shaped, valvate, afterwards reflexed. 

 Stamens as many as petals, or 2-4 times their number ; filaments short, 

 hairy ; anthers linear ; cells adnate to the connective, and dehiscent later- 

 ally. Ovary l-celled, with 1 ovule ; style filiform. Fruit a berry, crown- 

 ed with the persistent limb of calyx. Seeds oblong, with ruminate albu- 

 men, a superior cylindrical radicle, and foliaceous, veined, cordate-ovate 

 cotyledons. 



1. A. Lamarckii, Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. 133 : Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 215.^Syn. A. hexqpetalum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 502; "W". & A. Prodr. 

 326 ; Wight lU. t. 96. A. decapetalum, Wight Ic. t. 194 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 325. A. tomentosa, Lam. Sans. AnJcola, nikochaka. Vem. Akol, 

 dkola, akhora, akaul, ghowl, koeli {Alangi, Tamil, whence generic name). 



A shrub or tree, branchlets often spinescent. Leaves membranous, 

 3-6 in. long, on petiole \ in., exceedingly variable in shape, from linear- 

 oblong to elliptic, obtuse acute or long-acuminate, pubescent or tomen- 

 tosa when young, glabrous or pubescent below when full-grown, main 

 lateral nerves 5-8 on either side of midrib, joined by prominent transverse 



