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1. Sciodaphyllum Brownei. Browne's Scioda- 
phyllum . 
Stem arborescent, leaves digitate, leaflets 7-11 
generally umbelled petioluled oblongo-lanceolate 
glabrous unequal, racemes very long compound 
nodding, flowers in capitules pentandrous, corolla 
hemispherical. 
Sciodaphyllum, Browne, Jam. 195. t. 19. f. 1. — Aralia 
sciodaphyllum, Swartz, Prod. 55. — Hedera Sciodaphyl- 
lum, FI. Ind , Occ. ejusd. 519. — Sciodaphyllum Brownei, 
Spreng. Syst. 1. 953 — DC. Prod. IV. 260. 
II A B. Mountain woods. 
F L. April — June. 
A low tree, 8-12 feet in height: stem seldom more than 
two inches in diameter: branches few, subsimple, fragile, 
scarred, leafy and sheathed towards the end. Leadets 
unequal in size, ovato-lanceolate, with some of the larger 
ones subcordate : common petiole 5-10-inchcs in length 
expanded at the base into a sheath, which is amplexicaul, 
coriaceous, erubescent. Racemes 3 together, axillary, 
spreading, afterwards nodding, about 15 inches in length : 
rachis anguloso-sulcaled. Flowers in umbellets of 6-10, 
shortly pedicelled on a common peduncle, half an inch in 
length, a small irregularly-cleft involucel to each umbellet. 
Calyx minute, 5-toothed or subentire. Corolla pale-green, 
calyptriform. Filaments long, spreading, inserted on the 
margin of the annular disk encircling the base of the 
ovary : anthers cordate, erubescent. Ovary conical, dec- 
agonal : styles 3, short, approximating : stigmata obtuse. 
Berry oblongo-subrotund, 5-celled : cells 1 -seeded. 
It is principally the spreading stamens with their purple 
anthers that give that showy, and remarkable appearance 
to the flowers of this plant, which never fails to attract 
the eye even of the least observant, in travelling through 
our mountain forests. 
II. Hedera. 
Calycine margin elevated or toothed. Petals 
5-10, free. Stamens 5-10. Styles 5-10, conni- 
vcnt or concrete. Berry 5-10-celled. 
Name of Celtic origin. 
