Tas. 8316. 
ACANTHOPANAX Henry 
vod 
West China. 
ARALIACEAE. Tribe SCHEFFLEREAR. 
Aoantnopanax, Miq.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 898; Harms in 
Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. vol, iii. pars 8, p. 49. 
Acanthopanax Henryi, Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 
pars 8, p. 50; Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 451; CO. K. Schneider, 
ill. Handb. Laubhoizk. vol. ii. p. 424; affinis A. leucorrhizo, Harms, sed 
foliolis supra scaberulis infra (saltem ad nervos) subvillosulis acutis vel 
breviter acuminatis minute dentatis, pedunculis pedicellisque robustioribus 
brevioribus distincta. 
Frutex 2 m. vel ultra altus; rami citissime glabrati, aculeis e basi longitudina- 
liter elongata subito conicis compressis saepe recurvis armati. Folia 
5-, raro 3-foliolata; petiolus 3-5°5 cm. longus, primo magis minusve 
villosulus, deinde praeter apicem glabratus; foliola oblanceolata vel late 
lanceolato-ovata, acuta vel breviter acuminata, basi saepe cuneatim in 
petiololum 3-6 mm. longum attenuata, integra vel saepius a medio arcte 
minuteque (rarius magis conspicue) dentata, intermedium 6-12 ecm. 
longum, 2°5-3 (varius 4) cm. latum, supra saturate viridia, scaberula, 
intra pallidiora, magis minusve (imprimis ad nervos) villosula, nervis 
utrinque circiter 7. Umbellae ad apices ramorum subumbellatim con- 
gestae; terminalis caetera longe praecedens, multiflora, densa, 1°5-8 cm. 
diametro, pedunculo robusto subglabro vel villosulo vel subtomentoso, 
2°5-8°5 cm. longo suffulta; pedicelli sub anthesi 9-12 mm. longi, eodem 
indumentum ac pedunculi induti, inarticulati. Ovariwm glabrum vel 
magis minusve villosulum, obovoideum, sub anthesi 1-2:5 mm. longum; 
discus 1°5-2°5 mm.diametro. Petala ovarium aequantia vel subaequantia. 
Styli florum fertilium 1°5-2°2 mm. longi, connati; stigmata punctiformia. 
Baccae demum nigrae, globosae, 9-10 mm. diametro.— Heutherococeus 
Henryi, Oliv. in Hook. Je. P]. xviii. t. 1711; Hemsl. in Journ. Limn. Soe. 
vol. xxiii. p. 841.—O. Starr. 
The Acanthopanax here figured was first discovered in 
Hupeh, Central China, by Mr. A. Henry, and was intro- 
duced to cultivation by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons through 
their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson. From one of the plants 
raised by Messrs. Veitch in their nursery at Coombe Wood 
and obtained from them for the Kew collection in 1905, 
May, 1910. 
