248 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or more or less combined and subcalyptrately deciduous i apex 

 oftener inflexed and pendulous from the top of the bud among the 

 anthers. Stamens equal in number to petals and inserted with them 

 under a flat, depressed or conical, sometimes elongate {Actinomorphe^) 

 epigynous disk. Germen inferior or free at apex; cells 4-5, op- 

 positipetalous or more rarely 2-3 (Dipanax,^ Meiopanax ^), or 3-oo , 

 5-10 {Euschefflera) , 6-qo (Brassaia,* Paratropia) ; styles either free 

 at base, obtuse at apex, or capitellate, or connate to greater or less 

 height {Astropanax,^ Dendropanax,^) or nearly to apex (Agalma''), 

 sometimes very short or scarcely perceptible (Meiopanax, Dipanax, 

 Paratropia), sometimes in the same species {Euschefflera) either very 

 short obtuse, or finally elongate capitellate. Ovules in cells sohtary, 

 descending; micropyle extrorsely superior, sometimes closed by 

 thickened funicle. Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 2-qo ; albumen of 

 descending seed uniform or rarely (Dendropanax) rugose. — Trees or 

 shrubs sometimes climbing ; leaves alternate or rarely in part opposite, 

 simple or 1-foliolate, entire or pahnatilobed, oftener oo -foholate 

 digitate or rarely (Dipanax) pinnate ; flowers umbellulate or capitate ; 

 capitules or umbellules in racemes or corymbs more or less branched, 

 sometimes very elongate; bracts small or more rarely (Brassaia) 

 broad and forming an involucel more or less deeply cupular under 

 each flower; pedicels inarticulate. (All trop. and subtrop. regions.^) 

 103 ? Sciadophyllum P. Br.'— Flowers nearly " of Schefflera ; 



—Hook. FI. Ind. ii. 'til . — Paratropia DO. Flxpl. Exp. Sot. i. 715, t. 89 {Aralia); 722 



Frodr. iv. 265 (part). — Endl. Gen. a. 4561. — {Paratropia). — Miq. PI. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 749 



DcNF,. et Pl. Rev. Hort. (1854) 100. {Actinomorp/ie), 751, til {Agalma), 752, t. 12 



1 Mia. Comm. Myt. 102 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. {Paratropia) ; Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 12 {Tex- 



749. toria), 19, 219 {Paratropia), 25 (Agalma), 26 



^ Seem. Journ. Bat. vi. 130. {Dendropanax). — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 384 



3 H. Bn. Jdansonia, xii. 147. {Septapleurum), 385 {Brassaia). — Fk. et Sav. 



* Endl. Nov. St. Dec. 89 ; Iconogr. 1. 114-116 ; Enum. PI. Jap. i. 194. — Hieen. Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Gen. n. 4556'. — Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 242. — B. H. Afr. iii. 29 {Hepiapleurwm) . — Harv. and Sond. 

 Gen. 943, u. 25.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 732. Fl. Cap. ii. 570 (CassOTiia).— Hance, Journ. Bot. 



* Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 176, 225. (1877) 334 {Septapleurum). — Walp. Eep.ii. 433 

 « DcNE. et Pl. Rev. Hort. (1854) 107. — Seem. {Paratropia) ; Ann. i. 359 {Paratropia) ; ii. 724 



Journ. Bot. ii. 299.— B. H. Gen. 943, n. 26.— (Paratropia). 



Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. IZZ.—Textoria Mia. Ann. 9 Jam. 190, t. 19 (1756).— J. &en. 451 {Seio- 



Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 12 (Eather perhaps a sect, of daphyllum). — DC. Prodr. iv. 259. — Endl. Gen. 



Sciadophyllum than of Schefflera, genera in other n. 4559 (part). — Done, et Pl. Rev. Sort. (1864) 



respects very closely allied and better perhaps 106. — Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 265 (part) ; vi. 141. 



united in one), — B.H. Gen. 940, n. 17.— H.Bn. Adansonia, xii. 



' Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 751, t. 11. li&.—Actinophyllum R. et Pav. Prodr. 61, t. 8 ; 



8 Spec, ahout 90. jAoa. Hoit. Sehoinbr. t. 61 Fl. Per. iii. 74, t. 307-311. 

 {Aralia).— WiauT, Icon. t. 1011-1015 {Hedera). '» White or yellowish, sometimes handsome, 



— HooK. p. Fl. N.-Zeal. t. 22 {Aralia) ; Handb. hermaphrodite or sometimes polygamous. 

 N. Zeal. Fl. 103 {Sc/tefflcra).—A. Gray, Uii.^St. 



