Hbdeea.] AEALIACJSJE, 401 



3. BRASSAIOFSIS, Dene, and Planch. ; Fl. Brit. 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. Umhels in large compound panicles, young parts at 

 least stellately tomentose ; bracts often persistent ; pedicels rising 

 from a dense cluster of persistent bracteoles, not pointed under the 

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

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

 broadly globose or turbinate, 2 or 1-seeded, Seed not compressedy 

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



B. aculeata. Seem. ; F. B. I. ii, 738. Hedera aculeata, Don, Frod. 



187, 



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

 narrowly lanceolate-obovate, acuminate, narrowed to the base, softly 

 herlDaceons, stellate-tomentoae on both surfaces, apex of petiole hispid. 

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

 pedicels springing from a dense cluster of lanceolate hairy persistent 

 bracteoles. Fruit globose, i in. in diam., subdidymous, disk flat.. 

 style i'i in. 



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

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



4. HEDERA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. li, 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-mskvgm 5-toothed or subentire. Fetals 6, valvate 

 Stamens 5. Ovary 5-celled ; styles connate into a column. Fruit 

 globose, almost berried. Seeds ovoid ; albumen ruminated. 



H. Helix, Linn. ; Hoxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey Sf Wall.) ii, 515 ; 

 Brand, For, Fl. 248; F. B. I. ii, 789 ; WaU E. D. (Ivy). 



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

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

 entire. Umbels subglobose, sometimes depressed ; bracts triangular j 

 pedicels stellately hairy ; bracteoles minute or 0. Fruit yellow, turninjf 

 to black when quite ripe. 



Dehra Dun, in shaded swamps. Distrib. Throughout the Himalaya up 

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

 ing through Afghanistan to N. Africa and Europe, ard from W. Asia to* 

 Japan. Flowers Oct. to April. 



