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Europe ; is extensively cultivated as a rainy season crop in India, 

 especially in the Deccan; is never irrigated. 



XLVL— ARALIACEiE, DC. Prod. 251. 



THE ARALIA TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst., p 4. 



PANAX, Polygamia Dicecia. Pan, all ; akos (?), remedy ; the 

 celebrated universal remedy. Ginsing of the Chinese belongs to 

 this family. 



1. P CocHLEATUM, P ConchifoHum, DC. Prod. 4, p 253; 

 Roxb. Fl. 2, p 77 ; Rumph. Amb. 4, «. 31.— Shell-leaved Panax; 

 native of Eastern Islands ; in gardens. iNative of Java and 

 Moluccas. 



2. F Fruticosum, W. and A. 1 1 57 ; Roxb. Fl. 2, 76 ; Rumph. 

 Amb. 4, t. 33 ; Bot. Hep. t. 595. — A shrub, with large supra-decom- 

 pound leaves ; very common in gardens and pots about bungalows. 

 Native of Eastern Islands. We have seen this plant perfect its 

 flower and seed only at Dharwar. 



3. P Obtusum, DC. Prod. 4, p 254 ; Don's syst. 3, p 386.— 

 A shrub, in gardens, rare. Dapoorie and Hewra; leaves supra- 

 decoii) pound ; leaflets obovate roundish. 



4. P Fragrans, DC. Prnd. 4, p 253.— Native of Nepaul. 

 This shrub is not now tiaceable at Dapoorie. Do any spetimeiis 

 exist in gardens elsewhere ? 



5. Hedera Palmata. — There is a doubt as to the correctness 

 of the specific name given here; scandent, leaves trilobate. 



6. Abalia Papyrifera. — Chinese !^ ice-Paper Plant. {Vide 

 Bot. Mag.) — An unarmed shrub, 5 or 6 feet liigh;stem filled with 

 white pulp ; leaves 5 to 7-lobed, 1 foot Ions; ; lobes acute and 

 serrated with deep sinuses ; leaves and inflorescence covered with 

 thick down. Gaiden at Parell; native of Formosa. 



PARATROPIA, Pentandria Pentagynia. Pa?"a<?ope, bending ; 

 in allusion to the bent petioles. 



7. P Venulosa, Aralia digitata, W. and A. 1163; Rheede 

 Mai. 7, t. 28; Hoxb. Fl. 2, p 187.— Native of Sputhern India. A 

 small tree with digitate leaves ; in the late Colonel Hough's garden, 

 Colaba ; has now disappeared. 



XLVII.-CAPRIFOLIACE^, DC. Prod. 4, p 321. 



THE HONEY SUCKLE TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst., p 206. 



LONICERA, Pentandria Monogyniu. From Lonlcer, a German 

 Botanist of the 16th Century. 



