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234 obovate to obovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, acute or acuminate, glossy and coriaceous, sharply serrate. Umbels terminal; male of 4–10 slender rays 2–3 in. long, bearing numerous racemose flowers on pedicels $1⁄8$–$1⁄4$ in. long; females (or hermaphrodite?) of much shorter rays ¾–2 in. long terminating in 2–6-flowered umbellules. Flowers $1⁄6$ in. diam. Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, connate at the base, very short, tips erect or slightly recurved. Fruit ¼ in. long, broadly oblong, 5-celled.—Panax discolor, ''Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' iii. (1871) 178. P. discolorum, Students' Fl. 219.

2. P. Lessonii, C. Koch in Wochenschrift, ii. (1859) 336.—A glabrous much-branched shrub or small tree 8–20 ft. high; branches robust. Leaves dark-green, 3–5-foliolate; petioles stout, 2–6 in. long, not sheathing at the base; leaflets 1–4 in., sessile, obovate- or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire or sinuateserrate, smooth and shining, very thick and coriaceous; veins indistinct. Umbels terminal, compound; males with 4–8 primary rays 1–6 in. long, each ending in 4–10 secondary rays bearing numerous racemose flowers; females with shorter and fewer raysand less numerous flowers, not so conspicuously racemose. Flowers $1⁄5$ in. diam. Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, very short, connate at the base, their tips at length recurved. Fruit broadly oblong, ¼ in. long, 5-celled.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 221. Panax Lessonii, D.C. Prodr. iv. 253; ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 102. Cussonia Lessonii, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 285, t. 32; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 511; Raoul, Choix,'' 46. Hedera Lessonii, ''A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped.'' 719.

3. P. Gilliesii, T. Kirk, Students' Fl. 221.—A shrub or small tree 10–15 ft. high; branches slender. Leaves mostly 1-foliolate, mixed with a few 3-foliolate ones; petiole slender, ½–1 in. long; blade 1½–2½ in., variable in shape, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coarsely sinuate-toothed, rather coriaceous. Flowers long past in all the specimens seen, but apparently arranged in a racemose manner on numerous terminal peduncles 2–4 in. long; pedicels ½–1 in. Fruit ¼ in. long, broadly oblong, 5-celled; styles 5, very short, connate, free at the very tip.