75. ARALIACEJZ. 



FAM. 75. ARALIACE^:. 



nerved if simple, usually p; 1 1 m?i t«-l y < 

 ■ l.-.-oiiii». .iui-1. alternate, with stipules more or less adnate to the 

 petiole orO. Flowers regular, small, sometimes polygamous, in dens,. 

 umbels.umbels usually racemed or panicled. Calyx superior, reduced 

 to a raised margin with sepals small or obsolete. Petals f> or fi-7 or 

 more, valvate or sub-imbricate, sometimes calyptrate, inserted with 

 the stamens round or under the margin of an epigynous disc. 

 Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals.* Ovary inferior, 

 2 many-veiled, style- as many as the cells, distinct or united. Ovules 

 solitary, pendulous in each cell. Fruit coriaceous or dnipaeeons, 

 one or more cells sometimes suppressed. Seed pendulous, albumen 



•lis. shrubs or small tree-, often huirv or prickly. Leav 

 ate or whorled. digitate pinnate or 2-:(-pinnate with serrate^ 

 r entire leaflets, stipulate. Umbels variously arranged. P 

 often poly gamo- dioecious. Calyx margin truncate or 5-sepaloi 



Petals 5 ovate, lightly imbricate in bud. Ovary 

 styles. Fruit 4-5-celled and -angular or subglot 



' prickly unbranched 



; hairy leaves 2 :i ft. long with prieklv rhaehis and secondai 

 rhachides. Stipules 1-2" intrapetiolar. Lower pinna' al.out !»'' Ion 

 Pinna? about 5 pairs with subsidiary pinna? or leaflets at their has 



nes or leaflets softly hairy, about (5 "pairs on the long 



