496 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Orper XXXVI. ARALIA‘CE. ; 
Orv. CHAR. Calyx entire or toothed. Petals 5 or 10; estivation valvate. 
Stamens same, or double the number of petals. Anthers peltate. Ovarium 
of 2 or more cells; cells 1-seeded. Sty/es numerous, usually distinct, Berry 
crowned by the limb of the calyx. Albumen fleshy. — Differs from the 
Umbellaceze in inflorescence, numerous styles, and baccate, generally many- 
celled fruit. 
Leaves simple or compound, alternate, stipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; 
serrated or entire. Flowers small, greenish. 
The genera belonging to this order, which contain ligneous plants, are 
Aralia and Hédera, the former rather suffruticose than permanently woody: 
their characteristics are as under : — 
Arata L. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Styles 5, expanded. Berry 5-celled. 
He’pera Swartz. Petals 5—10. Stamens 5—10. Styles 5—10, conniving. 
Berry 5—10-celled. 
Genus I. 
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ARA‘LIA LZ. Tue Arawia, or ANGELICA TREE. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 
Pentagynia. 
Identification. D.Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p 185., ina note; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 257.; Don’s Mill., 3. 
p. 388 
Synonymes. Aralia sp. Lin.; Ardalie vére Blum. 
Derivation. According to some, from ara, annoyance, the spines being very troublesome in its 
native country to travellers ; but, according to others, a name of unknown meaning, under which 
one species was sent to Fagon, at Paris, from Quebec, in 1764, by one Sarrazin, a French phy- 
sician. 
Gen. Char. Calyx margin very short, entire or toothed. Petals 5, free, 
and expanded at the apex. Stamens 5. Styles 5, expanded, spreading divari- 
cately. Berry 5-celled, usually torose. Pyrene chartaceous. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; large, 
rough. Flowers white, or greenish; in umbels, usually disposed in panicles. 
—Suffrutescent shrubs, with prickly branches and leaves, and with large 
pith. Natives of North America and Japan. 
a@ 1, A.spino‘sa L. The spiny Aralia, or Angelica Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 
392.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 389.; 
Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Aralie, Fr. and 
Ger.; Angelica _ spinosa, 
Ital. ; Spikenard, N. Amer. 
Engravings. Schmidt Arb., 
t. 102. and t. 103.: Wats. 
Dend. Brit., t.116.; and 
our fig. 907. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem 
arboreous and prick- 
ly. Leaves doubly #7 
and trebly pinnate. | 
Leaflets ovate, acu- 
minated, and deeply 
serrated, Panicle * 
much branched, beset 
with velvety stellate 
down. Umbels nu- 907. A. spinosa. 
