‘Tas. 8638. 
FATSIA JAPONICA. 
Japan. 
ARALIACEAE. Tribe PANACEAE. 
Farsta, Dene et Planch.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 939. 
Fatsia japonica,'Dene et Planch. in Rev. Hort. 1854, p. 105 ; Il. Hort. vol. xvii. 
p. 116, t. 22 (var. awreo-reticulata, Verschaf.) ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. 
Jap. vol. i. p. 194; Trans. Russ. Hort, Soc. 1863, p. 288, t. 146; Regel, 
Gartenfl. 1863, p. 871, t. 420; Shirasawa, Ic. Jap. vol. ii. t. 57, fig. 1-14; 
a F. papyrifera, Benth. et Hook. f., paniculis puberulis (nec tomentosis), 
capitulis majoribus et floribus saepissime pentameris differt. 
Frutexr 1-4-metralis, inermis; caulis teres, inermis, foliatus. Folia petiolata, 
7-9-loba, 12-80 cm. diametro, glabra, lobulis elliptico-lanceolatis vel 
oblongis acuminatis serratis; petiolus 10-80 cm. longus, basi. latus vel 
interdum vaginatus. Inflorescentia ex umbellis globosis, 2°5-4°5 cm. 
diametro, pedunculis nonnunquam iterum divisis 2-10 cm. longis suffultis 
in paniculas compactas dispositis composita ; rhachis et pedunculi puberuli ; 
bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, reflexae. Flores saepissime pentameri, albo- 
virides; pedicelli circiter 1 cm. longi, minute puberuli. Calyx campanu- 
latus, 5-costatus, 2°5 mm. longus, lobi obsoletes. Petala subpatentia, 
ovata, apice apiculata, incurva et subsaccata, medio carinata, 3 mm. longa. 
Filamenta glabra, circiter 4 mm. longa; antherae late oblongae, 1°5 mm. 
longae. Discus convexus, verrucosus, 3-5 mm. latus ; styli 5, erecti, glabri, 
1 mm. longi, apice vix incrassati. Fructus globosus, 0°7-0°8 cm. diametro. 
—Aralia japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 128; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 258 5 
Sieb. et De Vriese, Fl. Jard. Pays-Bas, 1858, p. 25, t. 2. A. Sieboldu, 
C. Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. p. 678.—R. A. Roure. : 
The interesting Japanese Araliad now figured has long 
been known to European cultivators. It is the original 
Aralia japonica of Thunberg, but was separated from the 
genus Aralia by Decaisne and Planchon, when these 
authors revised the Araliaceae, because of its different 
floral structure. The name Fatsia, given by them to 
the newly established genus, was bestowed owing its 
being believed that the native name of our plant 
is Fatsi. It is not certain, however, that this is 
the case; according to Franchet and Savatier, the 
Japanese name is more correctly written Iats’de. These 
latter authors included in the genus a second species, 
F. horrida, which is, however, better referred to Echino- 
DreceMBER, 1915. 
