ABALIACEAE. — PENTAPANAX 565 



Brassaiopsis ricinifolia Seemann in Jour. Bot. II. 291 (1864). 



Acanthopanax ricinifolium Seemann in Jour. Bot. VI. 140 (1868) ; Rev. Hederae. 

 86 (1868). — Marchal in Bull Sac. BoL Belg. XX. pt. 2, 83 (1881). — Hance 

 in Jour. BoL XXIII. 323 (1885). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 

 340 (1887). — Sargent in Gard. & For, VI. 234, fig. 36 (1S93). ~ Shirasawa, 

 Icon. Ess. For. Jap. 11. t. 56, fig. 11-24 (1908). — Schneider, 111. Uandb. 

 LauhholzL II. 429, fig. 289 v-z, 291 b-d (1909). — Koehnc in Mitt. Deutsche 

 Dendr. Ges. XXII. 145, fig. (1913). — Rehder in Bailey, Standard Cycl 

 Hort. I. 192, fig. 80 (1914). 



Acanthopanax ridnif alius, var. magnificu^ Zabel in Gartenwelt, XI. 535 (1907). 

 Acanthopanax acerifoUum Schelle in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVII. 297 

 (1908); XVIII. 289 (1909). 



Kiangsi; Kinkising, IS73, G, Shearer. Western Hupeh : Hsing- 

 shan Hsien, woodlands, rare, alt. 1200 m., August and November 1907 

 (No. 602; tree 18 m. tall, girth 2 m., fruit black); north and south of 

 Ichang, woodlands, alt. 600-1200 m., September and November 1907 

 (No. 1963; tree 7-23 m. tall, girth 1-2 m., flowers white, fruit black); 

 same locality, A, Henry (Nos. 2246% 3101); " Tien-seian-sien," alt. 

 700 m., November 1906, C. Silvestri (No. 1601); without precise lo- 

 cality, A. Henry (No. 4573). Western Szech'uan: near V\^a-shan, 

 woodlands, alt. 2000 m., September 17, 1908 (No. 1962; tree 13 m. 

 tall, girth 2.6 m.). 



The Chinese specimens before us differ somewhat from the Japanese type in 

 the leaves being truncate or sometimes even broadly cuneate at the base, in their 

 shorter and broader lobes sometimes reduced to a point, in their wider sinuses 

 forming about a right angle, in their smaller and usually incurved teeth, and as 

 regards the Hupeh specimens in their glaucescent and glabrous or nearly glabrous 

 under surface, while the Szoch'uan specimen has the leaves green and slightly 

 pubescent beneath. The Chinese form, too, is a smaller tree with a slenderer trunk 

 measuring rarely more than 2 m. in girth, while the trunk of the Japanese tree 

 often attains 5 m. and occasionally 7 m. in girth. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. 354, 396, 524, 050, 0170 of the col- 

 lection of Wilson photographs and in his Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 267, 

 2G8, 269; also in his collections of Japanese photographs, Nos. x40, x278, x291, 

 X292, x408, x436, x446. 



PENTAPAI^AX Seem. 



Pentapanax Henryi Harms in BoL Jahrb. XXIII. 21 (189G); XXIX. 

 ^89 (1900). 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, cliffs, alt. 1800-2100 m., August 

 1908 (No. 1311, in part; bush 1.6-3 m. tall, flowers white) ; near Fulin, 

 among rocks, alt. 1800-2300 m., September 16, 1908 (No. 1311, in 

 part; bush 1.3-4 m. tall, flowers white); near Tachien-lu, cliffs, alt. 

 1800-2100 m., September, October and November 1908 (No. 1311, in 



