Horsfieldia
(named after Thomas Horsfield, 1773-1859, an American botanist). SYN. Schubertia. ORD. Araliaceae. A genus comprising two species of tall stove evergreen prickly shrubs, natives of Java, only one of which has yet been introduced. Umbels capituliform, small; panicles sub-sessile. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cordate or peltate, three to five-lobed, or palmately five to nine-fid, tomentose or woolly beneath. For culture, see Aralia. H. aculeata (prickly). fl. greenish-yellow; panicle terminal, densely clothed with stellate tomentum. l. cordate, five-lobed; upper ones three-lobed, covered with stellate tomentum beneath.