Panax.] 
LXT. ARALIACEyE. 
735 
hoary-pubescent. Calyx-border shortly prominent, entire. Petals and styles of 
the genus. Disk not prominent. Fruits about 3 lines broad, the endocarp or 
pyrenes hard. -Xothupana.e eler/ans, Seem. FI. Yit. 114. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay ; Rockhampton and Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy : Brisbane River, 
Moveton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. r. Mueller, C. Moore. 
Wood soft, light and elastic; might suit for cricket bats; excellent, for lining-boards; will 
probably prove a most useful wood for the musical-instrument maker. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. W oods 
No. 233. 
8. HEPTAPLEURUM, Gajrtn. 
(Referring to the seven petiolules.) 
(Paratropia, Blame.) 
Calyx-teeth minute or inconspicuous. Petals 5 or G, or rarely more, valvate. 
Stamens as many as petals. Disk flat or convex. Ovary with 5 or 6, rarely 
more cells. Styles united in a short cone, with as many sessile scarcely promi- 
nent stigmas as cells. Fruit nearly globular, the endocarp not very hard, forming 
5 or G, rarely more, 1 -seeded pyrenes. — Trees or tall shrubs. Leaves digitately 
compound. Flowers mostly unisexual, not articulate on the pedicel, umbellate, 
the umbels arranged in terminal panicles or racemes. 
A considerable genus dispersed over tropical and eastern temperate Asia, the only Australian 
species being one which has the widest range in East India. 
1. H. venulosum (veiny), Seem. Journ. But. iii. 80 ; 1 tenth. FI. Austr. iii. 
384. A tall shrub or tree, quite glabrous. Leaflets 5 to 7, on long petiolules, 
mostly elliptical or oval-oblong, acuminate, 4 to Sin. long, but in some Indian 
specimens short and obtuse, coriaceous, somewhat shining, the pinnate veins and 
reticulate veinlets very prominent. Stipules adnate to the petiole at the base 
only, united within it into a single obtuse lamina. Umbels in a divaricately 
branched panicle shorter than the leaves. Male flowers with exserted stamens 
and scarcely any rudiment of the ovary. Females often with more or less perfect 
stamens. Parts of the flowers 5 or G. Fruit about 2 lines diameter. — Paratropia 
random, W. and Arn. Prod. 377 ; Wight, Illustr. t. 118 ; F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 
121 ; Araiitt Moored, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 10-1. 
Hab.: Wide Bay, C. Moore. 
The species is widely dispersed over E. India. 
9. BRASSAIA, Endl. 
Calyx-tube broad, adnate to the ovary, without any prominent border. Petals 
7 to 18, usually about 12, valvate, usually cohering at the apex. Stamens as 
many as petals. Disk not thick, broad, with as many radiating furrows as cells, 
and confluent with the slightly raised styles or base of the radiating stigmas. 
Ovary with as many cells as parts of the flower and stigmas. Fruit with as 
many 1-seeded laterally compressed pyrenes as cells of the ovary. — -Trees. Leaves 
digitately compound. Flowers sessile in little dense heads, shortly pedunculate 
in long racemes, each flower embedded in a cup-shape involucre of 4 small 
imbricate bracts. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 
1. B. actinophylla (rayed leaflets), F.tuU, Nor. Stirp. Per. 89; Benth. FI. 
Amtr. iii. 385. A handsome tree, attaining 40ft., quite glabrous. Leaflets 7 to 
1G, petiolulate, oblong or obovate-oblong, very shortly acuminate, coriaceous, 
entire, Gin. to 1ft. long. Stipules united in a single interpetiolar stipule, adnate 
to the peLiole at the base. Flower-heads scarcely above Ain. diameter, on 
peduncles, sometimes very short, rarely 4 to lin. long, rather numerous along the 
