566 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



part; flowers white, fruit black); Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, 

 cliffs, alt. 1800-2100 m., October 1910 (No. 4284; bush 2-2.6 m. tall, 

 flowers white, fruit black). 



ARALIA L. 



Aralia chinensis Linnaeus, Spec. 273 (1753). — De Candolle, Prodr, 

 IV. 259 (1830), — Bentham, Fl Hongk. 135 (1861). — Seemann in 

 Jour, BoL VI. 133 (1868); Rev. Hederac. 90 (1868). — Henriques in 

 Bol, Soc. Broter. III. 149 (1885). — Harms in Bot.Jahrb,10GXA% 

 (1900). — Pavolini in Nuov,Giorn. BoL Hal n. ser. XV. 418 (1908). 

 Shirasawa, Icon, Ess. For. Jap. II. t. 55, fig. 13-24 (1908). 

 Schneider, III Handb. Laubholzk. II. 431, fig. 291 h, 292 b-g (1909). 

 Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. BoL Ital n. ser. XVII. 678 (1910); 

 XVIII. 130 (1911). 



Leea spinosa Sprengel, Syst, I. 670 (1825). 



Aralia mandshurica Maximowicz ia Bidl. Acad. Sci. St. PStersbourg, XV. 134 

 (1857). — Maack & Ruprecht in Bull Acad, Sci. SL Petershourg, XV. 367 



(1857). _ ^ ^. A A 



Dimorphanthus mandshuricus Ruprecht & Maximowicz in Mem. Sav. Etr. Acad, 



Sci. St. Petershourg, IX. 133 {Prim. FL Amur.) (1859). 

 Aralia spinosa Miquel in A?m. Mies. Lugd.-Bat. I. 7 (1863) (non Linnaeus).— 



Franchet & Savatier, Eniim. PL Jap. I. 191 (1875). — Hemsley in Jour, 



Unn. Soc. XXIII. 338 (1881). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. 



Inform, add. ser. X. 118 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). 

 Aralia Decaisneana Hance in Ann. Sd. NaL &6t. 5, V. 215 (1866); in Jour. 



Bot. IV. 172 (1866). 

 Aralia Planchoniana Hance in Jour. Bot. IV. 172 (1866). 

 Aralia mandshurica Seemann in Jour. Bot. VI. 134 (1868). 

 Aralia japonica Hort. ex K. Koch, Dendr. I. 674 (pro synon.) (1869). 

 Aralia spinosa, ^ canescens Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. 1. 192 (187o}. 

 Aralia spinosa, var. Chinensis Sargent, Silva N. Am. V. 90 (1895). 



Kiangsi : Kuhng, thickets, alt. 1200 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 1508; 

 unbranched shrub 1.3-2 m. tall, flowers white). Western Hupeh: 

 north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 900-1500 m., August and 

 September 1907 (No. 128, in part; shrub 2-4 m. tall, flowers white, 

 fruit black); Changyang Hsien, alt. 900-1500 m., August 1907 (No. 

 128, in part); Patung Hsien, alt. 900-1500 m., August 1907 (No. 128, 

 in part); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 900-1500 m., August 1907 (No. I2»» 

 in part). Northern Shensi: Lao-y-san, 1S97 jG.Giraldi. 



The specimens enumerated above are all rather densely pubescent on the ^^^ 

 side of the leaves and show scarcely any variation; they represent apparently yV' 

 ical A. chinensis, which seems to reach its western limit in western Hupeh, w 

 farther west it is replaced by the following variety. 



