Dehrhrra: 
LXI. ARALIACEiE. 
720 
ribbed, full all through of oil-bladders. Seeds dorsally compressed, albumen 
uniform. — Little-branched glabrous tall shrubs. Leaves alternate, crowded at the 
top of stem and end of branches, imparipinnate ; leaflets coriaceous, entire or 
obscurely repando-orenulate, stipules adnate to the petiole. The umbels in 
panicles. Bracts few, ovate. Pedicels articulate under the flower. 
Besides the Queensland plant, *2 are found in New Caledonia. B. and H. Gen. PI. i. 935. 
1. D. Michieana (after Archibald Michie), F. r. M. Vmijtn. vii. 95 (under 
Porospermum). A small tree, the bases of the petioles with stipule-like 
expansions. Rhachis cylindric, 2 to 4ft. long. Leaflets about 30, the upper ones 
attaining Tin. in length and 2in. in breadth, coriaceous-chartaceous, acuminate, 
glossy above, pale beneath. Panicles 2 to 3ft. long, on peduncles about 1ft., 
little branched ; bracts narrow-lanceolate. Flower umbels in racemes. Pedicels 
1 to 4 lines long. Calyx split into lobes about b line long. Petals 1 line long. 
Anthers a little shorter than the petals, obtuse, yellow. Styles about 1 line long, 
recurved. Disk almost pyramidal. Fruit 7 to 10 lines long, almost drupaceous, 
dark blue, oval ; a transverse section showing a ring of large oil cells. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay. Mulgrave River, and many other localities in north Queensland. 
2. ARALIA, Linn. 
(Derivation obscure.) 
Calyx-margin truncate or 5-toothed; petals 5, ovate, imbricate in the bud; 
stamens 5 ; ovary 2 to 5-celled ; styles 2 to 5, free or shortly connate at the base 
(at least in the seed- producing flowers). Fruit 4 to 5-eelled, 4 to 5-angular, or 
subglobose 2 to 3-celled. Albumen uniform. — Herbs, shrubs, or small trees, 
glabrous, hairy, or prickly. Leaves alternate or whorled, digitate-pinnate or 
compound-pinnate ; leaflets serrate or nearly entire ; stipules not prominent. 
Umbels solitary or in racemes or panicles, rarely in compound umbels ; pedicels 
jointed close under the flower or not. Flowers often polygamo-monoecious. — 
Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 
1. A. Macdowalli (after A. M‘Dowall), F. r. M., Son. Sri. Iier., April 
1880. Tree with slender erect trunk 30 to 40ft. high, the whole as well as the 
branches densely covered with short, stout, sharp prickles except on the petioles, 
although present there. Leaves long, simply pinnate, leaflets numerous, 6 to 
8in. long and 2in. or more broad, the margins entire, pointed at the apex, blunt 
at the base, both sides dark-green. Umbels solitary or 2 or 3 together, spreading, 
with a linear-lanceolate bract at the base, the pedunculate umbels arranged on an 
elongated general flower-stalk. Flowers seceding from the persistent stalklets. 
Calyxes nearly 2 lines long, the lobes occupying about one-fourth of the whole 
length. Petals nearly ovate, prominently lined inside along the middle. Anthers 
almost sessile, oblong ; styles 2, erect, rather thick, free ; stigmas acute, conver- 
gent. The ripe fruit said to be blue. — Pana.c Maedowalli, F. v. M. l.c. 
Hah.: Russell River, If. Hill, and many other tropical localities. 
This species approaches Pnna.r Mumnfi. F. v. M. l.c. 
3. PENTAPANAX, Seem. 
(From the parts of flowers being in fives.) 
Calyx-teeth 5. Petals 5, imbricated in bud. Stamens 5. Ovary 5 (or 4) 
celled. Styles 5 or 4, combined to the summit or free for more than half their 
length. Fruit 5 or 4-celled and angled. Albumen uniform. — Trees or large 
scandent shrubs. Leaves simply pinnate, with 5 to 9 leaflets, or digitate with 3 
to 5 leaflets, glabrous. Leaflets entire, crenate, or serrate. Flowers hermaphro- 
dite or polygamous, in compound racemes or umbelled ; pedicpls jointed close 
under the flowers, — FI. of Brit. Ind. ii. 723. 
