ai8	ARALIACEAE        CORNACEAE
ARALIA (DIMORPHANTHUS)—continued
*	A spinosa* Hercules' Club Devil's Walking Stick   50   August   D   Lflts.
distinctly stalked, veins curve before reaching margin.   South United
States.   (Fig 21 A)
* dendropanax japonicum 12 August E. Branchlets hairless Ls ov, 8,
often 3-lobed, dark glossy green, leathery, hairless, long-stalked. Fruit ^, ribbed.
Assam, China, and Japan. (Fig 31 f )
echinopanax horridus (FATSIA HORRiDA) Devil's Club. 12 June D. Very
prickly. Ls. alternate, ov., 9, 5-y-lobed, lobes sharply toothed, prickly on both
sides Berry J, scarlet North-west America, North-east Asia.
fatsia japonica 15. October. E Stem thick, without spines Ls alternate,
16, palmately y-g-lobed. Fls white, in large branching panicles Berry black
Japan (Fig 27 d )
Variety vanegata. Ls with white blotches near end of lobes
hedera helix. Ivy   October   E   Climbs by aerial roots   Ls alternate, ov , 4,
thick and leathery, 3-5-lobed on sterile shoots, unlobed on flowering shoots, hair-
less, long-stalked.   Fls  greenish yellow, m small clusters    Berry black.   Europe
(including Britain), Asia   (Figs 29 G and 120 b )
Numerous varieties in cultivation.
nothopanax arboreum 25 E Stems hairless, without spines or prickles
Ls. digitate, 3-y-fol , Iflts. ov., 3, coarsely and bluntly toothed, stalked. Fls.
greenish brown. Berry black. New Zealand. (Fig. 5 j )
pseudopanax FEROX. 2O. D Ls in young plants alternate, linear, 18, deflexed,
leathery tapering base, coarsely and unevenly toothed, teeth large, hooked and
almost spiny; stalk short and stout. Ls in older plants linear, obov , 6, entire or
vaguely toothed at outer end Berry |-, broadly oblong. New Zealand
Family 53   CORNACEAE.   K4-io, 04-10, A4-2O, G (1-2)
ALANGIUM (MARLEA). Ls. alternate, 8, palmately lobed, lobes entire,
downy, long-stalked Fls i, white; petals linear, forming a tube; in small branched
axillary clusters. Fruit J, egg-shaped, thin-walled.
A. Mnense (Marlea begonifoha). 20   March-June.   D    L.-stalk i.   Stamens
as many as petals.  India and China. (Fig 29 F )
A. platanifohum  6.   June-July.   D.   L.-stalks up to 3    Stamens twenty or
more. China.
aucuba japonica. Spotted Laurel 10. April. E Branchlets green, stout. Ls*
opposite, ov., lane*, 8, leathery, glossy green on both sides, hairless, coarsely
toothed in outer half, spotted with yellow in female plants. Fls. J, in terminal
panicles; petals purplish, 4-parted. Fruit a red berry. Japan. (Fig 60 b.) *
CORNUS. Cornel, Dogwood. Ls. opposite, entire, pointed, lateral veins
evenly spaced and converging towards apex in a somewhat concentric arrange-
ment, smaller veins barely visible. Fls. 4-parted, in terminal branched clusters or
heads. Fruit a berry.
(a) Fls. arising from large bracts
*	C. capitata (Bentkamafragifera)  Bentham*s Cornel.   40.  June-July,   D.
Ls. ov., lane., 5, leathery, tapered at both ends, greyish green and downy.