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umbels simple or compound and in racemes, (Trop. Asia and Oceania, 

 ■Malacca, Mascarene isles}) 



108. Gilibertia E. et Pav.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle tubular. Calyx short, entire or denticulate. Petals 6-9, 3- 

 angular, internally carinate at middle, valvate. Stamens same in 

 number, inserted under conical disk passing into as many connivent 

 styles as cells of germen ; anthers cordate, shortly apiculate at apex. 

 Germen inferior, 5-10-celled ; cells sometimes irregularly verticillate, 

 1-ovulate. Fruit ovoid -oblong drupaceous; " pyrenes 6-7." — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves simple petiolate, entire or denti- 

 culate, " exstipulate " ; flowers in simple or compound umbels (?) ; 

 ■pedicels inarticulate. (Trop. America.^) 



109. Panax L.* — Flowers ' hermaphrodite, or polygamous, 4-6- 

 merous or more rarely 6-oo -merous (Polyscias^); calyx short or 

 very short entire, crenate or denticulate. Petals 4-oo , valvate. 

 Stamens same in number ^.Itemate and inserted under epigynous disk 

 of various form, often confluent with base of styles. Germen inferior ; 

 cells 2-3 (JEJupanax, Nothopanax,' Raukaua,^ Cephalopanax,^ Sciado- 

 panax,'" Maralia "), or equal in number to petals (Tolyscias, Eupteron,^'^ 

 Botryopanax,^' Pseudopanax,^* Gheirodendron^^), very rarely {Gupo- 

 carpus '^) solitary by abortion, 1-ovulate. Styles distinct; elongately 

 recurved or erect (Nothopanax, Polyscias, Oligoscias), more rarely 

 highly or very highly connate (Gephalopanax, Sciadopanax), sometimes 



1 Spec, atout 10-12. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. 8 Seem. Joiini. Bot. iv. 352 {Saukanu) ; vi. 

 i. 747 (ZVcw««).— DC. Prodr. iv. 236, n. 2 142, 164. 



{GiliSertia). — Bak. et Balf. Fl. Maurit. 127, n. " H. Bn. Adamonia, xii. 149. 



5 (Polyscias). lo Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 73, t. 27. 



2 Frodr.M, t. 8 ; Fl. Per. iii. 75, t. 312.— DC. " Dup.-Th. Gm. Nov. Madag. M.—DG. Prodr. 

 Prodr. iv. 256, n. 1. — Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 174. iv. 255. — Endl. Gen. n. 4553. — Oligosmas Seem. 

 — B. H. Gen. 944, n. 27. — Waiigenheimia Dibtr. Journ. Bot. iii. 179 ; vi. 141, 161, 164 t. 80. 



— Ginannia Dietr. (ex Steud.). i^ Mia. ' Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 762 ; Ann. Mus. 



' Spec. 2. Seem. loo. cit. Lugd.-Bat. i. 3. 



. ■• Gen. n. 1116 (part, not Seem.).— DC. Prodr. " ji,jj ^„„_ ^^^^^ Lugd.-Bat. i. 5.—Grote- 



iv. 2.52 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 4551 (part). — fendia Sebm. Journ. Bot. ii. 2i7. —Gastotiia 



Dcne. et Pl. Sev.Sort. (1854) 105.— B. H. Gen. Ecep. Bot. Zeit. (1848) t. 1 (not Commer8.).— 



,938, n. 11. — H. Bn. Adansouia, xii. 148. — Hook. Gilibertia DC. Prodr. iv. 266, n. 3, 5 (not CoM- 



Fl. Ind. ii. 725. mees. nor E. et Pav.). 



= White, greenish or purplish. » 0. Koch, Wooliemchr. (1859) 336 (part).— 



6 FoRST. Char. Gen. 63, t. 32.— Endl. Gen. n. Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 178. 



4556.— Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 179.— B. H. Gen. " Nutt. ex Seem. Journ. Bot. v. 236. 



.941, n. 20.— Hook. 7'7. /«(?. ii. 727. '« Done, et Pl. Rev. Sort. (1854) 109.— 



7 Mia. Bonplandia (1859), 139 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 206.— B. H. Gen. 937, 

 i. p. i. 765. — Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. 293. n. 10. 



