UrassaiojosiH] LVIII. ARALIACE^ 353 



panicle. Leaflets almost entire, elliptic-oblong, when young often with scattered 

 stellate hairs, sec. n. arching^, prominent beneath, blade 4-8, pet. 1-3, common 

 petiole 12-24 in. long. Umbels many-fid., pednncles 1-4 in. long, in drooping 

 panicled racemes. Fr. more or less globose, hardly ribbed, J in. diam. crowned 

 by the flat circular disk and the connate styles. Seeds nsnally 1, sometimes 2, 

 siu-face irregularly grooved. Albumen not or very slightly ruminate. 



Sikkim, to 5,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chittagong. Hills ea&t of Bliamo, 

 Upper Burma, at 5,500 ft. Fl. E. S. Tinman. 9. B. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke. Sikkim 

 2-7,000 ft. Khabi Inllb. A prickly tree, young shoots, inflorescence, petioles and leaves 

 beneatli ^^ ith stellate ^vooUy tonientum, leaflets coarsely serrate, blade 4-18, pet. J-S in. 

 long. 10. B. aculeata, Seem. Knmaon 2,000 ft. I^epal. Khasi hills. A small tree,, 

 armed witli stout conical prickles, young shoots densely rusty tomentose, leaflets serrate^ 

 thinly memhranous, blade 6-9, pet. ^-l in. loug, sometimes one leaflet only, full grown 

 leaflets \\ ith minute scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces. 



9, MACROPANAX, Miq. ; FJ. Brit. Ind. ii. 788. 



Small unarmed trees, L. digitate, leaflets 3-5, glabrous. Panicles large, 

 bracts small deciduous, fl. umbelled, polygamous, pentanierous, pedicels articu- 

 late under the fl. Petals valvate, ovary 2-eelled, styles united. Fr. ribbed, 

 Kseed dorsally compressed. Species 2. 



1. M. oreophilum, Miq. ; Kurz P. PL i. 541. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree. Leaflets glabrous, lanceolate, denticulate, 

 serrate or crenulate, blade 4-6, pet. |-3, common petiole 4-10 in. long. Umbels 

 in long compound panicles, the ramifications of which, as v^ell as pedicels, are 

 clothed with rusty stellate pubescence. Pr. elongate-ovoid, \-^ in., disk 

 conical, style ^ in. long. 



Kumaon, outer hills, ascending to 5,000 ft., Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan. Assam. Khasi 

 hills. Ohittagong. Hills east of Toungoo. Yunzalin. Upper Burma (Kurz). PL 

 July "Sept. Yunnan. 2. M. undulatum, Seem. Sikkim, outer hills to 5,000 ft. (Chlnia, 

 Nep.) Assam. Khasi hills. Silhet. Yunnan. A small tree, leaflets entire, panicle 

 glabrous. 



Arthropliyllum diversifolium, Blume.— Syn. A. javmiicum^ Blume ; Kurz P. PL i. 540. 

 Andamans, Malay Peninsula. A shrub or small tree. Leaves glabrous or nearly so^ 

 the lower hi- or tripinnate, the intermediate pinnate, the uppermost opposite, simple or 

 trifoliolate. Inflorescence a compound umbel, peduncles and pedicels clothed with rusty- 

 brown deciduous stellate tomentum, pedicels not articulate. Calyx-teeth 5, small, petals 

 valvate, ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, style simple. Seed nearly globose, not ridged, albumen 

 ruminate. 



Brassaia capitata, 0. B. Clarke. Nilgiris. L. digitate, leaflets entire, rigidly coriaceous 

 elliptic, blade 4-7, pet. 2 in. long. PL in compact globose pedunculate heads, each fl. 

 surrounded by 4 bracteoles, as long as ovary and united below into a tube. Peduncles 

 1-1^ in. long, in the axils of ovate persistent membranous bracts, in racemes 12-16 in. 

 long^on a stout rachis. Petals 6-10, thick, valvate, stamens and ovary cells as many as 

 l^etals. Pr. obconic, ribbed below. 



10. TREVESIA, Visiani ; PL Brit Ind. ii. 731. 

 (Species 4, Malay Archip.) 



T. palmata, Vis. ; Kurz P. PI. i. 539. Vern. Baio^ Burm. 



A small evergreen generally unbranched tree, armed with short very sharp 

 prickles, young shoots rusty pubescent and very prickly. Leaves orbicular in 

 general outline, 12-24 in. diam., deeply palmatifid, lobes acuminate, serrate, 

 sometimes lobed, often cut away in one or several places, so as to leave the 

 midrib of the lobe free, petiole often prickly. PL large, umbels panicled, 

 pedicels not articulate. ' Young panicles clothed with rusty tomentum, bracts 

 1 in. bug. Calyx-limb free, undulate or repand-toothed, petals 8-12, valvate, 



