400 ABALIACEJE. [Heteeopa nax 



as the petals, dish small or large ; styles small, separate or combined 

 in a short conical narrow cylindric column. Fruit suhglobose, 5-6- 

 angled. Seeds compressed ; albumen uniform. — Species 55, in the 

 tropics of the Old World. 



H. venulosum, Seem. ; Brand. For. Fl. 249 ; F. B. I. it, 729, Watt 

 E. D. Paratropia venulosa, W. ^ A. Prod. 377. Aralia digitata, Roxh. Fl. 

 Ind. ii, 107.— Vern. Kath-semal (Dehra Dun). 



A soft-wooded shrub, usually scandent. Leaves digitate ; common ^petiole 

 5-6 in., slender, terete ; leaflets 5-7, unequally stalked, 4 Tby 2 in., elliptic 

 or ohlong-lanceolate; acuminate, subacute or rounded at the base, entire, 

 coriaceous, glabrous and shining, conspicuously and minutely reticulate. 

 Panicles usually shorter than the leaves, but varying in length, usually 

 glabrous ; bracts large, ovate, cadacous, hairy when young. Flowers 

 about ^ in. diam., cream-coloured, arranged in paniculate umbels. 

 Berry 5-celIed, ovoid, bluntly 5-ridged, glabrous, yellow when ripe. 



Dehra Dun and Bijnor forests. Distrib. Up tc- 4,000 ft. on the W. Hi- 

 malaya, Bengal, C. & S. India, Burma & Malaya ; also in Trop. Australia, 

 Flowers in Jan. & Feb. 



2. HETEROPANAX, Seem. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 734. 



A small unarmed tree. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, very large, 

 pinnately decompound ; stipules not prominent. Panicles large ; 

 umbels racemed, more or less stellate-hairr ; bracts small, ovate, obtuse 

 persistent ; j^edicels not jointed under the fiower. Flowers polyga- 

 mous, the terminal umbel of each panicle-branch usually alone fi-uiting, 

 C aly X'-mMgHx nearly entire. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 2-celled; styles 2, distinct from the base, spreading. Fruit imich. 

 laterally compressed, 2-seeded. Seeds compressed ; albumen rumin- 

 ated.— Species 1 or 2, Western Himalaya, and Indo-China. 



H. fragrans. Seem.; Brand. For. Fl. 249; F. B. I. ii, 734; Watt E. D. 

 Panax fragrans, Boxh. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 76 ; Boyle III. 253.— Vern. Tarla. 



A small soft-wooded tree. Leaves 2-4 ft. long ; leaflets shortly stalked or 

 sessile, 3-6 in. long, ovate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, rounded or 

 tapering at the base, entire, glabrous. Flowers subsessile, in terminal 

 compact subglobose paniculate umbels, yellow, fragrant ; pedicels 

 elongating in fruit. Fruit 5 in. long, laterally compressed, at length 

 glabrous, often glaucous. 



Dehra Dun and Saharanpur Siwaliks, and in the Sub-Himalyan tracts 

 eastwards. Distrib. Eastwards, to Burma, common in Bengal, also 

 in Java & China Flowers Jan. & Feb. On this tree the Eri silkworm 

 is fed in Upper Assam. 



