Motherwellia.} 
LXI. ARALIACE.E. 
788 
Fruit about 8 lines long, 4 lines broad, slightly laterally compressed. Pyrenes 
ovate-sennorbieulate, compressed. Seeds scarcely 1+ line, oblique, broadly ovate, 
much compressed. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, ■/. Dallachy (F. v. M. l.c.) 
7. PANAX, Linn. 
(From supposed medicinal virtues of the plants.) 
(Nothopanax, Miq.) 
Calyx- border usually slightly prominent, truncate or shortly 5-toothed. Petals 
5, valvate, often cohering at the tips, especially in female flowers. Stamens 5. 
Disk broad and not thick, the margin sometimes prominent. Ovary 2 or rarely 
8-celled. Styles 2, rarely 3, at first erect and sometimes cohering, afterwards 
distinct and recurved. Fruit flattened, the endocarp hardened into 2 distinct 
pyrenes not furrowed, sometimes 2-ribbed on the dorsal edge, the exocarp more 
or less succulent. Albumen even. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnately or 
digitately compound or rarely a few on the same tree or bush undivided. 
Flowers often polygamous, articulate on the pedicels, in umbels or rarely in heads 
or racemes, the umbels or racemes paniculate or rarely solitary. 
The genus, if limited according to the views of Planchon and Decaisne, is widely distributed 
over the tropical regions of the Old World and extends to New Zealand, but is not American, 
and comprises Linnaeus’s P. fruticoxa and others The northern herbaceous species of Linnaeus, 
with imbricate petals, are united by the same authors with Aralia, a course sanctioned by A. Gray 
and others. Miquel, however, reserves the name of Panax for these herbaceous species, and 
proposes the name of Nothopanax for Planchon and Decaisne’s Panax. As the views of the 
latter authors will probably meet with more general adoption, they are here followed. The 7 
Australian species, as far as hitherto known, are all endemic (Benth), six of them being met 
with in Queensland. 
Leaves pinnate or bipinnate. Flowers umbellate, umbels paniculate or 
racemose. 
Leaflets glabrous, long, obliquely lanceolate. Calyx-teeth scarcely 
prominent 1. P. Murrayi. 
Leaflets softly pubescent underneath, large, ovate or oblong, acuminate. 
Calyx-teeth scarcely prominent 2. P. mollis. 
Leaflets glabrous, large, ovate-lanceolate or oblong. Umbels few- 
flowered. numerous. Calyx-limb cup-shaped, truncate 3. P. Macgillivrcei. 
Leaflets glabrous, mostly under Bin., ovate-lanceolate or linear, entire 
toothed or dissected. Calyx-limb very short, sinuate-toothed . . . 4. P. sambucifolius. 
Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers sessile, capitate ; heads paniculate or racemose 5. P. cephalobotrys. 
Leaves pinnate or bipinnate. Flowers pedicellate, racemose; racemes 
paniculate 6. P. eleyans. 
1. P. Murrayi (after P. Murray), F. r. M. Fra/jm. ii. 106; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 381. “ Koorgarrie,” Herberton, J. F. Bailey. A splendid tree, the 
trunk simple to the height of 50 or 60ft., and then almost trichotomously 
branched (F. v. Mueller, Dallachy). Leaves simply pinnate, often several feet 
long ; leaflets obliquely lanceolate, entire or slightly denticulate, herbaceous but 
not thin, 8 to 6in. long, or when luxuriant 8 to 10in., quite glabrous. Umbels 
many- flowered, pedunculate, in racemes or divaricately-branched panicles. 
Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Petals and stamens not seen. Fruit about 2 lines 
broad ; the endocarp not very hard. — Xothopanaa- Murrayi, Seem. FI. Vit. 114. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy : common on the mountain ranges of southern Queensland. 
Wood of alight colour, soft and light; would make good lining-boards. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. 
IVoods No. 232a . 
2. P« mollis (indumentum soft), Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 382. A tall shrub. 
Leaves simply (or doubly '?) pinnate ; leaflets ovate ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 
acuminate, 6 to lOin. long, glabrous above, softly pubescent or villous under- 
