136 AEAiiiACEiE. [Jralia. 



tjie branches of a large spreading panicle. Pedicels very short at the time 

 of flowering, near i in. long when in fruit. 



Scarce in the island. Champion. Only tnom from South China. Tlere i^however, a 

 Khasia species very similar in foUage, but with fruits apparently much smaller. J-he ^ . Ot/so- 

 phylla from Java is also near, but the fruits are sessile or nearly so. We have too tew speci- 

 mens of any of these forms to be able to judge how far these differences may be constant. 



%. PABATBOPIA, Blume. 



Mowers unisexual. Umbels racemose or paniculate. Calyx-teeth minute 

 or scarcely perceptible. Petals B or 6, free, valvate in the bud. Stamens as 

 many, the iilaments elongated, and anthers short. Styles united in a short cone, 

 with minute stigmas. Berry 5- or 6-ceUed.— Leaves digitately compound. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over tropical and eastern temperate Asia. 



1. P. cantoniensis, Hook, and Arr(.Bot.Beecli.\^^. A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves on long petioles ; leaflets 5 to 8, digitate, oval or elliptical, shortly 

 acuminate, glaucous "underneath, the smaller veins between the principal pin- 

 nate ones scarcely perceptible, varying much in size ; the largeir leaflets about 6 

 in. long, on petiolules of 3 in., the outer smaller ones of the same leaf not above 

 half that size. Kacemes or narrow panicles, about 6 in. long, tomentose or 

 at length glabrous. Umbels pedunculate, consisting of about 10 to 13 flowers. 

 Pedicels about 3 lines long, or 3 lines when in fruit. Style conical, with 

 5 or 6 small sessile stigmas. Berry globular, 5- or 6-ceIled. 



Common in the island. Champion and others. Also on the adjoining continent, but not 

 known out of S. China ; the species is, however, very near the Indian P. veitulosa, but wifii 

 ihe veins of the leaves less consijicuous, the flowers larger, and the berries not furrowed. 



3, DENDEOPANAX, Dene. 



Plowers polygamous, not articulated on the pedicel ; the umbel resting on 

 the dilated apex of the peduncle. Calyx distinctly 6 -toothed. Petals B, free, 

 valvate in the bud. Stamens B, the filaments usually short. Styles united 

 at the base or nearly to the top. Fruit globular, succulent, 5 -celled. Albu- 

 men not mminate. Leaves entire or lobed. Umbels termiual, solitary, or few 

 in a corymbose panicle. 



The genus was established for a few tropical American species, with which the two follow- 

 ing agree in every respect, except that the styles are more united in a cone, thus approaching 

 to the tnie Hedera, but it cannot remain in that genus as now limited by Decaisne and 

 Planchon, for the albumen is not ruminated. 



Leaves entire and 1 -nerved, or lobed and 3- to 3-nerved. Flowers 



about 14 lines long 1. B.protea. 



Leaves entire, 3-nerved. Mowers scarcely 1 line long ....... 2. D. parviflora. 



1. "D. -pvatesiy Benth. A handsome shrub, with the inflorescence and 

 gloT)ular berries of the common Eedera Helix, hni very different in the vena- 

 tion of the leaves, and in the seeds. Leaves either entire with one midrib, 

 or deeply 3- or 3-lobed with as many prominent ribs, varying fi-om broadly 

 elliptical to oblong or lanceolate, coriaceous and shining, the smaEer veins 

 scarcely perceptible, from 1^ to 5 or 6 in. long, on petioles varying fi-om 

 a few lines to 3 in. Peduncles tei-minal, sohtaiy or 3 or 3 too^ether, ^ to f 

 in. long, dilated at the top into a disk-like receptacle, bearing a "simple nearly 



