716 PHANEROGAMIA. 



serratis, lateralibus parvis; umbellls confertis pednnculatis in race- 

 mum compositum magnum paniculceformem digestis; stylis pyre- 

 nisque 5. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands ; at the elevation of 1,000 feet above 

 the sea. 



A small tree, "20 feet high," unarmed, glabrous, or the nascent 

 parts cinereous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, digitately 7-9-foliolate. 

 Petioles 4 inches or more in length ; the base slightly connected with 

 a pair of pretty large, oblong-triangular, acute, clasping, membra- 

 naceous stipules. Leaflets cuneate-oblong, or cuneate-obovate, some- 

 times inclining to elliptical, abruptly acuminate, obscurely serrate, 

 membranaceous, 3 or 4 inches long and on partial petioles of about 

 an inch long, or the lateral ones much smaller. Inflorescence axillary, 

 compound-racemose; the 8-10-flowered umbels (on peduncles of 3 or 4 

 lines long) crowded on the whole length of the elongated primary 

 divisions, forming a large and extremely many-flowered spreading 

 panicle. Bracts small, deciduous. Ultimate pedicels a line and a 

 half long. Only the fruit is known ; which is a five-celled drupe, 

 strongly five-angled when dry, only a line and a half in diameter, 

 marked near the summit by the truncate edge of the calyx, crowned 

 with 5 short and wholly distinct divergent styles (their stigmas ter- 

 minal) : pyrenas coriaceous. Seed suspended. Embryo small, next 

 the hilum. 



Plate 89.— Aralia (Sch^fflera) Vitiensis : branch, in fruit, of 

 the natural size. Fig. 1. A fruit, enlarged. 2. A transverse, and 3, 

 a vertical section of the same. 



4. PANAX, Linn. 

 1. Panax fruticosum, Linn. 



Hab. Philippine Islands; near Banos, Luzon. Also Samoan and 

 Feejee Islands: introduced, and planted around houses. (Foliage 

 only.) 



