114 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
Pedicelli articulati. Flores calyculati, polygami. Calycis tubus obconicus; limbus minute 5-den- 
tatus. Petala 5, estivatione valvata. Stamina 5, Styli 2 (per excessum 3) dein divergentes, fere ad 
basin usque facie interiore stigmatosi, Ovarium 2-, rarissime 3-loculare. Drupa didymo-compressa 
y. rarissime 8-gona. Albumen equabile.—Frutices seepius anisati, foliis pinnato-decompositis, pin- 
natis v. simplicibus; peticlis basi stipulatim dilatatis; umbellis decompositis v. racemoso-paniculatis, 
floribus parvis albidis v. viridiusculis.—Panacis, Aralie et Paratropie sp. auct. 
Nethopanaw was established in 1856 by Miquel in the ‘Bonplandia’ for a set of shrubby Hederacee 
having articulate pedicels, polygamous 5-androus flowers, and a two-celled ovary. The generic character 
there given was admitted by him, unaltered, into his ‘ Flora of Dutch India;’ but in the Supplement of that 
work he amplified it so far as to admit a Hederacea with 5-7 styles, which he named J. tricochleatum. 
In another more recent publication (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i.), he rejects the genus altogether, and re- 
fers all the species once more to the old Linnwan genus Panax. I think Nothopanar ought to be upheld, 
and be restricted to the dicarpous (by excess tricarpous) species. The 5-carpous plant Miquel referred to it 
I consider to be Polyscias pinnata, Vorster, With Panax, as 1 understand the genus, Vothopanax has but 
distant relationship. The genus now comprises about a dozen species, but it is quite possible that some of 
them will haye to be rejected when better specimens can be examined. I more than half suspect that 
NV. (?) obtusum, of which I have not seen a specimen, may belong to my new genus LHeteropanax, which is 
founded upon the East Indian Panax Jragrans, Roxb.* What I have seen in herbaria under the name of 
Panax pinnatum, Lam., is certainly a species of Ardhrophyllum, a genus easily known by its 1-celled ovary ; 
and Miquel’s description of “ Panax pinnatum,’ given in the Annales above quoted, must refer to a dif- 
ferent plant, perhaps a genuine Volhopana#. | have also my suspicion about WV. cochleatwm (known to me 
only from books). It has simple leayes, whilst all the other species of the genus have compound ones. 
Most of the species haye a very strong smell of aniseed and celery,—hence the name of “ celery-tree” is 
given to NV, elegans, Seem., by the Queensland colonists. 

* Heteropanax, Seem. (yen. nov.). Pedicelli inarticulati, Flores ecalyeulati, hermaphroditi. Calyx 
tubo obconivo, limbo minute 5-dentato. Petala 5, ovata, 1-nervia, eestivatione valvata. Stamina 5. Ova- 
rium 2-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Styli 2, liberi, demum divaricati. Drupa exsucea, didyma, compressa, 
2-pyrena. Albumen ruminatum.—Arbuscula inermis Indie orientalis, foliis alternis simpliciter impari- v. 
supradecomposite pinnatis, foliolis petiolulatis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis, umbellis paucifloris panicu- 
latis, pedunculis pedicellis calycibusque stellato-tomentosis, floribus odoratis—Panacis sp. auct. Species 
unica; 1, H, fragrans, Seem, mss. Panax fragrans, Roxb. Cat. Cale. 21; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 254, 
excl, syn, Don.—Bootan (Griffith! n. 2073), Kumaon (Strachey et Winterbottom !), Sikkim, 2—4000 feet 
(Hooker fil, et Thomson !), Khassia (Hooker fil. et Thomson!), Caleutta Bot. Garden (Wallich! n. 4929 4), 
Assam plains (Jenkins !).—Very variable in foliage, some leaves being scarcely a foot long, others exceeding 
4-5 feet in leneth, with petioles 2 feet and more. Don’s Hedera fragrans, referred doubttully to this species 
by De Candolle, is Pentapanaw Leschenaultii, Seem., a common Nepal plant. 
t The following is an enumeration of all the species of Nothopanaz known to me: 
, * Folia decomposite tripinnata. 
1. WV. fruticosum, Mig. in Bonpl. 1556, p, 189; Fl. Ned. Ind, he. p. 765.— Panaz fruticosum, Linn. 
Spee. p. 1515; Wight, leon. t. 573. Seutellaria tertia, Runmph. Amb. vol. iv. p. 78. t. 838.—Indian Archi- 
pelago (Horsfield!), Cochinehina (Loureiro! in Brit. Mus.), Ceylon (Seemann!), Wallis Island (Sir E. 
Home!), Viti Islauds (Seeimann! n, 204). Mueh cultivated about houses by all Malayan and Polynesian 
races, 
2. NV. (?) obtusum, Miq. in Bonpl. 1856. p.139; Fl. Ned, Ind. l.e. p: 166.—Panax obtusum, Bl, Bijdr. 
p- 890; Mig. Ann. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 15.—Western Java (Blume !), Perhaps a species of Lleleropanan. 
3. LV. elegans, Seem.—Panax elegans, Fraser, mss.; Muell, Fragm, vol. ii. p. 107, et in ene Phil. 
Soc, Victoria, 1857. Panax polybotrys, F. Muell. Herb, Panax decompositum, Muell. Herb,—* Celery- 
tree” of Moreton Bay. Island and shores of Moreton Bay-(A. Cunningham! F, Mueller!). 
a. ** Kolia simpliciter pinnata. 
4. N. Cumingit, Seem.—Paratropia Cumingiana, Pres), Hpim. p. 250; Walp. Ann. vol, ii. p. 725,— 
Philippine eo (Cuming! n. 1553), Borneo (Motley! in Herb, Hook.). 
5. NV. muliijugum, Seem. Paratropia (?) multijuqa, A. Gray. Bot. ukes, p. 722,—Viti (Seeme 
n. 205; Harvey! U. 8. Expl, Exped.) pia (2) puga, y W P Viti (Seemann | 
6, VN. Maegillivrayi, Seem. mss, (sp. nov.).—Cape York, Australia (M‘Gillivray!). Somewhat re- 
sembling WV. Cuméngii in leaf. 
_ 4. MN. Murrayi, Seem.— Panax Murrayi, F. Muell. Frag. vol. ii. p. 106,—New South Wales (Oldfield! 
in Herb. Iovk.). 
5. NV (2) danisum, Mig. in Bonplandia, 1856, p. 139, et Fl, Ned. Ind. 1. c. p. 766.—Panax Anisum, DC, 

