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Other members of this order, noteworthy for their orna- 
mental foliage, are: Archangélica atropurpwrea, Molopo- 
spérmum ecicutarium, Narthew Asafetida, Smgrniwm spp., 
Silaus spp., Méwm athamdanticum, ete. 
Orper LV._ARALIACEA. 
Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, very rarely herbaceous, 
often clothed with a stellate pubescence, occasionally armed 
with spines. Leaves alternate, or very rarely opposite, entire, 
toothed, lobed, or palmately or pinnately divided; stipules 
various, rarely none. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, 
regular, usually small, capitate, umbellate, racemose or pani- 
culate. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; limb small. Petals 
3 or more, often 5, usually valvate. Stamens of the same 
number, rarely more. Fruit inferior, drupaceous or baccate, 
1- or more celled; cells 1-seeded. Very near the Umbellifere 
in structure. The species are estimated at about 350, dis- 
tributed into 85 genera. They are chiefly from tropical 
countries, but there are a few hardy species familiar in our 
gardens, 2 
1, ARALIA. 
Perennial herbs or deciduous shrubs, often spiny. Leaves 
digitate, or once or more pinnate; leaflets serrulate. Flowers 
in umbellate racemes or panicles, rarely in compound umbels. 
Petals 5,imbricate. Fruit laterally compressed, 2- to 5-celled. 
Pedicels articulated with the flowers. About thirty species 
are referred here, nearly all from the northern hemisphere and 
a few from temperate North America and Asia. The origin of 
the name is unexplained. 
1. A. spindsa. Angelica Tree.— This is, after the Ivies, the 
most familiar species of the order. It is a shrub or small tree 
with simple stout stems and very large tripinnate leaves com- 
posed of numerous serrulate leaflets. The stem and petioles are 
usually spiny. Inflorescence terminal. A handsome and distinct 
shrub from North America. 
2. A. Chinénsis, syn. A. Mandshirica, Dimorphanthus.— 
Near No. 1, but with very hairy and prickly usually bipinnate 
leaves and less regularly. toothed leaflets. A native of North 
China, ete. - 
A. nudicaulis, racemosa, hispida, and Ginseng, syn. Panaz 
Ginseng, are North American herbaceous species, possessing 
