LXXI. ARALIACEAL 
Trevesia.] 
883 
Penang (Wallich 4925); Penara Bukit. Distrib. Burma, Sumatra. 
Native names : Kakabu ; Tapak Rimau. 
(2) T. rulo-setosa Ridl. 
A shrub with the habit of the preceding. Leaves palmate of 
7 lobes cut down for 7 in., more or less elliptic shortly cuspidate, 
edge undulate with up-curved thorns, glabrous except nerves and 
centre red-hairy, covered with small raised dots; nerves 9, 2 on the 
lowest lobes which are dilate on the lower edge. Whole leaf 12 in. 
long and wide, lobes 3 to 4 in. wide; petioles stout, 2 ft. long, 
densely covered with red-brown flat acuminate setae. Inflorescence 
entirely covered with similar setae, 8 in. long, flexous. Flowers 
unisexual -25 in. across. Bracts linear acuminate caudate, -5 in. 
long. Calyx obconic setose, limb very short and obscure. Corolla 
spreading, star-like, lobes 5, triangular coriaceous, hairy beneath. 
Stamens 5. Style in female flowers cylindric; ovary 5-celled. 
Stigmas bilobed. Hab. Hill forests, Selangor, Semangkok Pass, 
2500 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
4. BRASSAIA, Endl. 
Small trees about 20 ft. tall. Leaves digitate, long-petioled, 
coriaceous. Panicles spike-like tall with short branches bearing 
globose heads of sessile flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of 
4 bracts as long or longer than the calyx. Calyx obconic, limb 
very short entire. Petals usually 10 to 12, thick valvate connate. 
Stamens as many; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary usually 10- to 
12-locular; styles connate in a short cone. Fruit sub-globose, 
pyrenes compressed. Species 4, Malaya, Australia. 
Harms reduces this genus to a section of Schefflera, including in it 
S, cephalotes. From this latter the genus is separated by the larger number 
of petals and stamens and the whorl of bracts round the flower. The beauti¬ 
ful B. actinophylla of Australia is often cultivated in Singapore Gardens. 
(1) B. singaporensis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, 
p. 38. 
Leaves digitate; petioles over 6 in. long, base widely dilate; 
leaflets 15, stiffly coriaceous oblong-ovate, blunt rounded at both 
ends, 3 to 4 in. long, 1-75 to 2*5 in. wide; petiolules 1*5 in. long. 
Panicles 18 in. long, stout; branches *5 in. long, thick; heads about 
•5 in. through of about 10 sessile flowers. Bracts ovate acuminate, 
longer than calyx-tube. Calyx very short, margin undulate. 
Corolla calyptrate rounded; petals connate 5, coriaceous. Stamens 
9 to 12; filaments short; anthers oblong-linear. Stigma sub- 
sessile conic. Hab. In forests. Rare. Singapore, Bukit Timah 
(Ridley). . 
Mr. Robinson sent from Gunong Mengkuang Lebah in Selangor 
a specimen of another Brassaia, but unfortunately too incomplete 
to be properly described. The petiole of the only leaf is 5 in. long, 
