Polyscias
(from polys, much, and skias, shade; in allusion to the plentiful foliage). ORD. Araliaceae. A genus comprising about eight species of stove, glabrous trees or shrubs, inhabiting the East Indies, the Indian Archipelago, and the South Pacific and Mascarene Islands. Flowers umbellate, racemose or paniculate; calyx truncate or repand-toothed on the margin; petals five to eight, valvate, free, or cohering at apex; stamens as many as the petals; disk flat or rarely sub-conical; bracts scale-like or wanting. Leaves pinnate; leaflets coriaceous, usually ample. Only one species calls for description here. For culture, see Trevesia, on p. 77.
P. paniculata (paniculate). fl. not yet produced in this country, although a plant at Kew has been in cultivation over ten years. l. pinnate; leaflets usually seven, the terminal one 7in. to 9in. long, the others short-stalked, oblong, obtuse, shining, sub-coriaceous, deltoid or rather rounded at base, 4in. to 6in long. SYN. Terminalia elegans (of gardens). This "has no more to do with the genus Terminalia than with a Cabbage" (G. C. ser. iii., vol. ii., p. 366).