Hedeba.] ABALIACEM. 401 



[C b] 3. BBASSAIOPSIS. Dene, and Planeh. ; Fl. Briti Ind. ii, 735. 



Large shrubs or trees, glabrous or tomentose, armed or not. Leaves 

 digitate palmate or angled ; stipules connate with the petiole, not 

 prominent. Umbels iu large compound panicles, young parts at 

 least stellately tomentose ; bracts often persistent ; ^eaJice^^ rising 

 from a dense cluster of persistent bracteoies, not jointed under the 

 flower. Flouoers often polygamous. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, 

 valvafce. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled; styles 2, united. Fruit 

 broadly globose or turbinate, 2- or 1-seeded. Seed not compressed, 

 albumen ruminated. — Species 11, of which 10 are found in India. 



B. acaleata* 8eem. ; F, B. I, ii, 738. Hedera aiCuleata, Bon. Prod. 187 , 



A small prickly tree with digitate leaves ; leaflets sabaessile. 9 in. long, 

 naxTowlj lanceolate-obovate, acuminate, narrowed t ) the base, softly 

 herbaceous, sfcellate-tomentose on both surfaces, apex of patiole hispid. 

 Panicles large ; brads at the base of the branches ovate, persistent ; 

 pedicels springing from a dense cluster of lanceolate hairy persistent 

 bracteoies. Fruit globose, 5 in. in diatn., subdidymous, disk flat, 

 style ^l in. 



Dehra Dun (Falconer). Distbib. W. Himalaya from Garhwal to Nepal 

 up to 5,000 ft., and on the Khasia Hills. 



4. HEDERA, Linn,; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 739. 



Shrubs, climbing extensively, or small trees. Leaves simple or 

 lobed, exstipulate, glabrous. Flowers polygamous ; umbels panicled; 

 bracts very small, pedicels not or very obscurely jointed under the 

 flowers. Calyx-ra&Tgiii 5-toothed or subentire. JPetals 5, valvate. 

 Stamens b. Ovary b-ceUedi; styles connate into a column. Fruit 

 globose, almost berried. Seeds ovoid ; albumen ruminated. 



BL. Helix, Linn. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey ^ Wall.) ii, 515i; Brand, 

 For. Fl. 24S ; F. B. I. ii, 739 ; Watt 'E. D. (Ivy). 



Stems glabrous, climbing adhesively by means of numerous extra-axillary 

 rootlets. Leaves 3-4 in., variously lobed or pinnatifid and often quite 

 entire. Umbels suhglobose, sometimes depressed ; bracts triangular ; 

 pedicels stellately hairy ; bracteoies minute or 0. Fruit jellow, turning 

 to black when quite ripe. 



Dehra Dun, in shaded swamps. Distbib. Throughout the Himalaya tip 

 to 10,000 ft., Khasia Hills up to 6,000 ft., Salt range of Punjab, extending 

 through Afghanistan to N. Africa and Europe, and from W. A sia to 

 Japan. Flowers Oct to April. 



