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GENUS I. PANAX. 
Pelygamia Dieweia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Pan, all, and Akos, a remedy, in allusion to the 
supposed medicinal qualities. 
Gen. Cuar. Margin of the calyx very short, obsoletely 5-tooth- 
ed; petals 5: stamens alternating and inserted with the petals: 
styles 2-3, short: fruit fleshy, compressed, orbicular or didymous, 
9-3-celled : cells coriaceously chartaceous. 
(1) P. rracrans. (Roxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. TIT. p. 76.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 254. 
Spec. Cuar. Unarmed tree: leaves supra-decompound, 2-4 
feet in length: leaflets ovate-oblong, entire, remotely and sharply 
serrulate when young, smooth: petioles sheathing and turgid at the 
base: styles 2, short, woolly: panicles terminal, very large, com- 
posed of numerous compound branches of short-peduncled globular 
umbels of flowers, surrounded by a small ferruginous mealy invo- 
lucre ; petals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, with a ridge down the 
middle on the inside: berries 2-lobed, a little flattened, 2-celled:: 
flowers small, fragrant. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in October. 
(2) P. pietrata. (Rozb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 75. 
Sprc. Cuar. Armed tree: young branches covered with nume- 
rous short somewhat incurved prickles: leaves digitate: leaflets 
about 7, petioled, from oblong to broad-lanceolate, acuminate, entire + 
panicles terminal, pendulous; common peduncle armed, and with 
the pedicels somewhat downy: petals oblong, patent: berry nearly 
round, somewhat succulent, black, smooth, size of a black currant: 
seed hemispherical, with a small groove down the middle of the in- 
side: flowers globular, long-pedicelled, greenish-yellow. . 
Silhet, flowering in May. 
(3) P. parmatum. (Rozb.) 
Ident. Roxb fi. Ind. II. p. 74. 
Spec. Cuan. Shrub, armed with numerous straight. acute pric- 
kles; young parts covered with much rusty pubescence: leaves pal- 
mate, serrulate, when young densely clothed with rusty tomentum: 
lobes from triangular to broad-lanceolate, acute: petioles somewhat 
stem-clasping, with a small acute stipulary process on each side: 
racemes lateral, solitary, bearing from 20-80 diverging peduncled 
