Plerandra
(from pleres, full, and aner, andros, a male; in allusion to the numerous stamens). Including Bakeria and Nesopanax. ORD. Araliaceae. A small genus (four species) of stove, unarmed, glabrous trees, natives of Fiji. Flowers polygamous (?); calyx entire or sinuate-toothed; petals five, valvate, calyptrate, cohering or rarely free; stamens numerous, in two or several series; umbellets pedunculate. Fruit often rather large. Leaves ample, digitately compound; leaflets coriaceous, entire. Only one species has been introduced. For culture, see Trevesia, on p. 77.
P. Graefiei. See P. Grayi.
P. Grayi (Asa Gray's) fl. greenish; umbellets twenty-six-flowered; umbels many-rayed. fr. 3/4in. long, 1/2in. in diameter. l. digitate; leaflets nine, obovate-oblong, obtuse, attenuated to the petioles, the upper ones 6in. to 7in. long, and 2 1/2in. broad. 1887. Wrongly called P. Graeffei. P. vitiensis (Fijian). fl. green, disposed in large, compound umbels. l. digitate; leaflets five to ten, petiolate, elliptic-obovate, blunt at apex. Stem unbranched. 1887. A small tree. SYNS. Bakeria vitiensis, Nesopanax vitiensis.