ARALIACEAE. — ACANTHOPANAX 563 



957). Eastern Szech'uan: without precise locality, cultivated, ^. 

 Henry (No. 5S90). 



This species is closely related to A. spinosus Miquel, but differs from it in the 

 villose underside of the leaves. 



Acanthopanax lasiogyne Harms, n. sp. 



Frutex 2-6-metralis; ramulis glabris cortice subpallido vel pallide 

 cincreo; folia breviter v. longiuscule petiolata petiolo glabro 1.5-6 

 cm. longo. Foliola 3, subsessilia v. sessilia v. brevissime petiolulata, 

 pro rata latiuscula v. lata, oblonga v. obovato-oblonga v. obovata 

 (lateralia plus minusve obliqua, interdum ovata v. oblongo-ovata), 

 basi acuta v. in petiolulum angustata v. lateralia oblique obtusa, apice 

 latiuscule breviter acuminata v. acuminulata v. acuta v. acumlne de- 

 structo obtusa, margine Integra v. subintegra v. sursum pauciserrata, 

 circiter 4-6 cm. longa et 1.5^.5 cm. lata. Umbella terminalis densi- 

 flora, breviter v. brevissime pedunculata, floribus albidis, pedicellis 

 parce albido-pilosulis, circiter 5-7 mm. longis, ovario albido-villosulo 

 tomento detergibili; styli 2, basi connati. Fructus compressus, mar- 

 gine calycino parce albido-villosulo v. subglabro, stylis 2 basi breviter 

 V. interdum fere ad medium connatis coronatus, 7-8 mm. longus, 

 niger. 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2100-2400 m., 

 August and October 1908 (No. 1313, type); same locality, alt. 1500^ 

 1800 m., September 1910 (No. 4167). 



^ This species resembles A. sessiliflorus Seemann in its woolly flowers, but is easily 

 distinguished from it by the longer pedicels and the nearly free or only partly con- 

 nate styles. 



Acanthopanax evodiaefolius Franchet in Jour, de Bot. X. 306 (1896). 



Western Hupeh: mountains north of Ichang, 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 1142). Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen- 

 eh'uan Hsien, alt. 2000 m., October 1910 (No. 4204; tree 16 m. tall, 

 girth 1.3 m., bark smooth, pale gray; fruit black). 



Acanthopanax trifoliatus Schneider, III Handb, LauhhokL II, 427 

 (pro synon.) (1909). — Rehder in Bailey, Standard Cycl HorL I. 

 193 (1914). 



Zanthoxylum trifoliaium Linnaeus, Spec. 270 (1753), ed. 2, II. 1455 (1763). — 



Lamarck, Encycl MUh. II. 40 (1786).' 

 Panax aculeatum Alton, Hort. Kew, III. 448 (1789). — Jacquin, Coll. IV. 175 



(1790); Icon. PL Rat. III. 20, t. 634 (1786-93). — Willdenow, Spec. IV. 



