252 NATURAL SISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



variously shaped in the same plant, either elongate, or very short 

 {Pseudopanax, Cheirodenclron). Fruit drupaceous ; exocarp more or 

 less fleshy ; pyrenes l-oo ; vittse or rarely (Sciadopanax) con- 

 spicuous. Seed descending ; albumen uniform or more rarely costate 

 (Sciadopanax), rugose or subruminate (Maralia). — Glabrous or more 

 rarely tomentose trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or the upper 

 sometimes opposite (Cheirodendron), simple, 3-foliolate (Cheirodendron), 

 digitately compound (Pseudopanax), or very often pinnate; inflores- 

 cence various ; umbels or capitules (Gephalopanax) solitary or 

 umbellate, corymbose, simple- or compound - racemose ; pedicels 

 articulate under flower ; articulation very rarely (Raukaua) obscure. 

 (Trap, and temp. Asia and Oceania, east. ins. Africa, extra trop. S. 

 America.^) 



110? Heteropanax Seem.^ — Flowers polygamous (Panacis) ; 

 disk epigynous rather concave. Stamens 5. Disk depressed. Germen 

 2-celled; styles 2, erect, free, slender. Fruit much compressed 

 contrary to septum, sub-2-dymous ; albumen of compressed seed 

 ruminate. — A tree ; leaves pinnately decompound ; stipules small ; 

 flowers in a full compound-ramose umbelluliferous raceme.' (India, 

 Ghina.^) 



111. Gussonia Thunb.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous 

 (nearly of Panax) ; calyx short entire or dentate. Petals valvate. 

 Stamens as many alternate ; anthers subovate. Germen 2-celled 

 (" sometimes 1-celled "); styles short or elongate, connivent or free ; 

 disk epigynous depressed or conical. Fruit subglobose or compressed 

 contrary to septum ; pyrenes 1-2 ; albumen of descending seed 

 ruminate. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves collected at top of 

 twigs, digitate or palmatifid, sometimes twice digita,te ; leaflets entire, 

 widely dentate or pinnatisect ; flowers in dense simple or compound 



' Spec, atout 50. Wight, Icon. t. 573, 1062 to Panax, sometimes to \AraHa papyrifera. 



[Hedera). — Hook. Jcok. t. 583 {Ai-alia) ; Land. Habit peculiar. Hairs mostly stellate. Fruit 



Journ.£ot.ii.t. 11, 12.— Kndl. Aim. Wkn. Mm. nearly oi Didymopanax or Mackinlaya. Better 



i. t. 15. — 0. Gat, Fl. Chi. iii. 151 {A^aKa). — perhaps a sect, of Panax, albumen not imi- 



HoOK. F. Fl. Antarct. t. 12 ; Fl. Tasm. t. 21 ; Fl. form (?). 



N.-Zel.t.2\; liandh. N.Zeal.Fl. 100.— A. Ghay, * Spec. 1. H.fragrans^TssM.— Panax fragrans 



Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Sot. i. 716 ; 718, t. 90, 91 Eoxe. Cat. Sort. Calc. 21.— DC. Prodr. iv. 251. 



(fi^erfecs).— BBNTH.J-V.^Msirei.iii. 380.— HiBKN, ^ Nov. Acta Upsal. 210, t. 12, 13; Non. Gen. 



Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afi: iii. 27.— Bak. et Balf. Ft. i. 11.— L. jr. Suppl. 182.— J. Gen. 217.— Lamk. 



Maur. 126.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 450-452. Diet. ii. 230 ; III. t. 187.— DO. Prodr. iv. 255. 



2^;. Vit. 114 (note); Journ. Bot. iv. 297; v. — Endl. Gen. n. 4552 (part). — Seem. Journ. 



239.— B.H. Gen. 945. n. Z\.—KooTi..Fl.Ind.ii. Bot.iy. 297.— B. H. Gen. 944, u. SO.—Sphcero- 



734. dendron Seem. Journ. Bot.Jai. 33, t. 26. — B. H. 



' Gen. scarcely autonomous, sometimes allied Qen. 1009, n. 11 a. 



