65. ARALIACE-2E. 339 



4. Aralia, sp. ? 



Hupeh : Patung district (A. Henryl). Herb. Kew. 



Only young foliage and young flowers of a member of this 

 order quite distinct from anything else we have seen from China. 



[Panax /alias, Miq. (Journ. de Bot. Neerl. i. p. 118), is an 

 obscure imperfectly described plant, perhaps not of this natural 

 order.] 



1. Acanthopanax aculeatum, Seem. Journ. Bot. 1807, p. 238, 

 et Bevis. Heder. p. 86 ; Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 105 ; 

 Franchet, Bl. David, p. 146 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 ii. p. 726. 



Panax aculeatum, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, iii. p. 448 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 p. 252 ; Jacq. Ic. PI. Rar. t. 634 ; Seem. Bot. Voy. ' Herald,' p. 38. 



Zanthoxylum trifoliatum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 270. 



Plectronia chinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 162. 



Panax Loureirianum, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 252. 



Aralia trifoliata, Meyen, Reise, ii. p. 332, sec. Walpers in Nov. Act. Nat. 

 Cur. xix. Suppl. i. p. 348 ; C. Koch, Wochenschr. i. (1859), p. 366. 



Acanthopanax sepium, Seem. Hevis. Heder. p. 86. 



China : without locality {Millett I Staunton I Macartney I 

 Bradley \ and others); Kiangsi : Kiukiang {David, 1975, ex 

 Franchet); Fokien : Amoy {Ranee ! Swinhoel); Formosa {Old- 

 ham, 3001); Htjpeh : Ichang and Patung districts {A. Henryl 

 186, 1011, 1092!); Kwangtung : Macao, &c. {Calleryl Sce- 

 vnann !) ; Hongkong {Ford !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Eastern India and Japan. 



The Chinese and Japanese specimens referred here are almost 

 invariably trifoliolate ; but the Indian are often quinquefoliolate 

 as in A. spinosum, which is probably not specifically different. 



2. Acanthopanax divaricatnm, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1867, 

 p. 239, et Bevis. Heder. p. 87 ; Marchal in Comptes-rendus Soc. 

 Bot. Bely. xx. 2. (1881), p. 82. 



Panax divaricatum, Sieb. et Zucc. Abhandl. Baier. Acad. iv. ii. p. 200 • 

 Walp. Ann. \. p. 981. 

 Kalopanax divaricatum, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. p. 17. 

 Acanthopanax asperatum, Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. i. p. 193; 

 Franchet, PI. David, p. 146 (asperulatum), sec. Marchal, loc. cit. 

 Chihlt: Jehol {David ex Franchet). 

 Also in Japan. 



