. The natural history of plants. Botany. 162 NATURAL RISTOBT OF PLANTS. various sections of which remain, moreover, but little different one from another.' Didymopanax is from tropical America and closely resembles Sciadophyllum, of which it has generally the digitate leaves and floral pedicels without articulation. The gynsecium is dimerous, and the drupaceous fruit is much compressed perpendicular to the parti- tion, widely didymous or nearly so. The inflorescences are ramified clusters of umbels and the flowers are sometimes polygamous. Panax fragans, from India and China, has become the ty
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 162 NATURAL RISTOBT OF PLANTS. various sections of which remain, moreover, but little different one from another.' Didymopanax is from tropical America and closely resembles Sciadophyllum, of which it has generally the digitate leaves and floral pedicels without articulation. The gynsecium is dimerous, and the drupaceous fruit is much compressed perpendicular to the parti- tion, widely didymous or nearly so. The inflorescences are ramified clusters of umbels and the flowers are sometimes polygamous. Panax fragans, from India and China, has become the type of a genus Heteropanax, whose flowers and fruit have an organization like that of Didymopanax. Here only the seeds have a deeply ruminate albumen (a character of little value), and the leaves are decompound- pinnate. In New Caledonia there is another genus allied to Schdfflera, whose leaves are partly compound-pinnate and partly simple, and whose flowers, disposed in simple or compound umbels, have thick pedicels. These flowers are unisexual, and the females have but one cell in the ovary surmounted by a conical disk, without apparent style. The drupa- ceous and monospermous fruit sometimes much resembles that of Apiopetalum. We have named this singular genus Eremopanax the analogue of which we shall flnd in Mas- tixia and Arthrophyllum, but it has not the ruminate seeds, and the floral pedicels, like those of Schefflera, are always without articu- lation. The putamen (fig. 202) is unsymmetrical or curved, traversed Eremopanax Fig. 202. Putamen (f). 1 Sciadophyllum, which perhaps ought not to be preserved as a genus distinct from Septa- pleurum, has four or five cells in the ovary, and sometimes two or three. We shall consider (provisionally at least) that the following types with 2-3-oelled ovaries should be referred as sections to the genus Schefflera: Meiopanax (Cussoniaumbellifera Sond.), a Cape plant with digitate leaves, pedicel not articulate, 5-merous val
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