LXXI. ARALIACE7E. 
874 
[Schefflera. 
Petals 5- to 9-valvate. Stamens as many (very rarely double); 
anthers ovate. Disc convex. Ovary as many cells as there are 
petals. Stigma conic sessile or on a short style. Fruit sub-globose 
fleshy angled when dry. Seed laterally compressed. Albumen not 
ruminate. Species 100, Old World tropics. 
Harms in " Pflanzenfamilien ” has put Heptapleurum under the older 
name of Schefflera, a genus based on two Fiji and New Zealand plants which 
seem to be truly Heptapleura, so the later genus Heptapleurum is now reduced 
to Schefflera. 
Flowers umbelled. 
Lower leaves simple lanceolate, upper trifoliate 
Leaves all trifoliate. 
Panicle longer than leaves, lax 
Panicle shorter than leaves, dense 
Leaves 5- or more-foliate. 
Flowers sessile or sub-sessile in small heads 
racemed. 
Bracts minute or o; leaves glabrous. 
Leaflets oblong cuspidate g by 5 in. 
Leaflets lanceolate 6 by 1 in. 
Leaflets elliptic narrowed at base; 
flowers very short pedicelled 
Umbel-bracts ovate scurfy. 
Leaves 10 in. long, 4 in. wide, oblong; 
panicles long ..... 
Leaves 5 by 2-5 in. ovate round; 
panicles short ..... 
Leaves thickly woolly beneath 
Inflorescence of several elongate or short simple 
racemes of umbels; flowers stalked. 
Ovary 12-eelled; leaflets 12 by 4 in. thin 
Ovary 9-celled; leaflets coriaceous round 3^5 in. 
wide ...... 
Ovary 6-celled. 
Leaflets coriaceous oblong, cuspidate 10 in. 
long; flowers white .... 
Leaflets coriaceous, oblong-acuminate, 4 by 
1 in. . . . . . • 
Leaflets long acuminate 2*5 in. long; pedicels 
of flowers 1 in. long . . . 
Leaflets coriaceous, lanceolate acuminate 4 in. 
long; pedicels '05 in. long. 
Leaflets elliptic cuspidate, 9 by 4 in.; 
pedicels short ..... 
Panicle branched. 
Branches few and short; ovary 5- to 6-celled. 
Leaflets lanceolate 3 by 1*25 in.; panicle 2 in. 
long.. 
Leaflets elliptic cuspidate 4 by 1-5 in.; 
panicle 6 in. long .... 
Leaflets oblong elliptic 6 by 2 in. or more; 
panicle 6 in. long . . . . 
Leaflets thin elliptic; panicle wide spreading 
9 in. long ..... 
Leaflets coriaceous; flowers medium; panicle 
short, dense . 
(1) S. lanceolata 
(2) S. lurida 
(3) S. tristis 
(4) S. cephalotes 
(5) S. capitellata 
(6) S. Klossii 
(7) S. Scortechinii 
(8) S. pergamacea 
(9) S. tomentosa 
(10) S. singalangensis 
(11) S. latifoliata 
(12) S. Hullettii 
(13) S. elegans 
(14) S.scandens 
(15) S. subracemosa 
(16) S. subulata 
(17) S. nervosa 
(18) S. affinis 
(19) S. Ridleyi 
(20) S. Roxburghii 
(21) S. venulosa 
