Manchuria. More recently, however, Dr. Harms has 
proved satisfactorily that this genus is not in reality 
separable from the older genus Acanthopanaz.. Ingardens , 
A. leucorrhizum, here depicted, has been confused with 
A, Simonii, C. K. Schneid.; the figure which was pub- 
lished in the Gardeners’ Chronicle on 9 December, 1905 
(fig. 152), under the name Eleutherococcus leucorrhizus is 
not the plant now described, but is really A. Simoni. 
The plant there referred to is well distinguished from the 
true A. leucorrhizum by its much stouter hooked spines 
distributed irregularly on the branchlets and by the 
numerous bristles on both surfaces of the leaflets. Another 
species very closely allied to the subject. of our plate 
is A, Henryi, Harms, already described at t. 8316 of this 
work, which differs from A. leucorrhizum in having shorter, 
stouter spines, shorter pubescent pedicels and pubescent 
leaves. The bark of the roots of A. leucorrhizum, from 
the appearance of which the specific name has been 
derived, is stated by Henry to be used by the Chinese 
as a drug, known to them as the White “ Wu Chia P’i.” 
As a shrub for gardens, A. leucorrhizum will be valued 
chiefly for its handsome foliage, of a type uncommon 
among hardy shrubs, and for its striking umbels of 
purple-black berries which are produced very abundantly 
and remain on the bushes late into the autumn. It has 
withstood perfectly the frosts experienced since its 
introduction, and although these have not provided the 
hardest tests of our climate we may reasonably assume 
it to be hardy. It thrives in well-drained sandy loam 
and is easily propagated by seeds. 
Duscription.—Shrub, 6-10 ft. high, everywhere glab- 
rous ; branchlets very pithy, sprinkled with pale lenticels, 
armed at the nodes with 1-6 pale, decurved spines 1—8 
in. long, sharply pointed and subulate; internodes at 
times with a few similar but scattered spines. Leaves 
deciduous, alternate, usually 5-foliolate, sometimes 3- 
foliolate ; leaflets lanceolate or oblanceolate, apex acumi- 
nate, base acute, margin sharply doubly serrate, 2-5 in. 
long, 3-1} in. wide, their petiolules }-2 in. long; petioles 
13-4 in. long, occasionally armed with one or two 
prickles, especially where the petiolules are attached. 
