Monopanax
(from monos, one, and Panax; the plant resembling a Panax, and having a one-celled ovary). ORD. Araliaceae. A genus founded by Regel on the plant here described. It is an ornamental, smooth-growing, dwarf stove shrub, with erect, simple stems, becoming leafless below. For culture, see Aralia. M. Ghiesbreghtii (Ghiesbreght's). fl. greenish-white, in small, round, long-stalked heads, on a terminal, pyramidal, racemiform panicle. l. long-stalked, digitate, bright green, composed of from four to seven lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, leathery, entire, stalked leaflets. Mexico, 1869. SYN. Aralia Ghiesbreghtii (of gardens). (R. G. 606.)