474 - CXIV. AEALIACE^. 



feet tlirougli arrest, regular, in unibels, naked or involuerate capitula, racemes or 

 panicles. Calyx superior, usually short, entire or toothed. Petals 5, 10 or more, 

 inserted on the edge^ of an epigynous disk, valvate or imbricate in bud, free, or 

 cohering at the top and detaching like a cup. Stamens inserted alternately with 

 the petals, rarely double or treble in number (or indefinite) ; filaments short, distinct, 

 very rarely 2-partite [Adoxa ') ; anthers ovoid or linear, introrse, incumbent, of 2 

 opposite cells opening- longitudinally. Ovakt inferior, crowned by the disk, of 2-15 

 1-ovuled cells ; styles equalling the cells in number, sometimes cohering, often very 

 short ; stigmas simple ; ovules suspended from the top of the cells, anatropous ; h&rry 

 fleshy or dry, crowned by the calyx. Seeds inverted ; testa crustaceous, sometimes 

 margined. Embeto minute, straight, at the top of a fleshy copious albumen ; cottf- 

 ledons short ; radicle superior. 



Tribe I. ARALIEJE. 

 Corolla quite polypetalous, aestivation valvate. Stem usually woody. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 



* Aralia. ' Hedera. * Panax. * Oreopaaax. * Dendropanax. 



* Paratropia. * Sciadopbyllnm. * Didymopanax. * Gastonia. 



TeibeII. ADOXEM.' 



Corolla sub-polypetalous, aestivation imbricate. Tilaments 2-partite. Stem 



herbaceous. 



GENUS. 



Adoxa; 



[The genera oi Araliaeetb have been re-examined and arranged as follows in the 

 ' Genera Plantarum' :— 



TeiBE I. Aeahej!. — Petals more or less imbricate, attached by a broad base. Stilboearpa, 

 Aralia, Feiitapanax, &o. 



Tribe II. MaceinLaTEJ!.— Petals shortly clawed, involute, valvate. MacJcinlaya. 



Teibe III. Panacea. — Petals valvate. Stamens as many as the petals. Albumen not 

 ruminate. Horsfieldia, Panax, Acdnthopanaai, Fatsia, Didymopanax, Helioingia, Meryta, Sciado- 

 pJiylhim, Septapleurum, Dendropa/nax, &c. 



TeiBe IV. HEDEEEai.— Petals valvate. Stamens as many as the petals. Albumen 

 rumiaate. Arthrophyllum, Oussonia, Oreopanax, Redera, &o. 



TfeiBE V. PliEEANDEEj!. — Petals valvate or connate. Stamens very numerous, Styles 

 or cohering in a cone. Plerandra, Tupidanthus, &c. — Ed.] 



AraliacctB approach Xlmbelliferm, Ampelidece, and Caprifoliaccm (see these families). They are 

 closely connected with Comas ; in both the petals ai'e epigynous and isostemonous and valvate, the 



' Adam is now referi'ed to Caprifoliaccm. -^V-tt, 



