panar, Dene & Planch., and has for this reason been 
figured as /. horridus at t. 8572 of this work. Another 
species was added to the genus by Bentham and Hooker 
as I’. papyrifera; this species, which has with justice 
been transferred by C. Koch to the genus Tetrapanax, 
has also found a place at t. 4697 of this work under its 
older name Aralia papyrifera, Hook. The plant now 
figured, which is thus the sole representative of its genus, 
though a common feature in collections for over sixty 
years, has chiefly been in use as a decorative plant in 
conservatories. It is, however, hardy in the average 
climate of Great Britain if it be given a sheltered 
situation. Plants put out in 189] have succeeded well in 
the Bamboo Garden at Kew, and although they suffered 
somewhat from the great frosts of February, 1895, they 
were not destroyed, and that has been the only occasion 
on which they appear to have been affected by cold. At 
the same time this shrub is to be seen at its very best in 
the gardens of our southern and western counties. 
Flowering, as it does, in late autumn, its huge panicles 
produce a particularly striking effect in October and 
_ November, when there are few other plants in blossom. 
If F. japonica can be afforded a position which is sheltered 
from the sun during the middle of the day, it does better 
than in more exposed situations. It likes a loamy soil, 
and is increased by placing cuttings of a fairly firm 
growth singly in pots plunged in a mildly heated pro- 
pagating frame. 
DESCRIPTION.—Shrub, 3-13 ft. high, unarmed; stem 
terete, without prickles, leafy. Leaves petioled, 7-9-lobed, 
5-12 in. wide, glabrous; lobes elliptic-lanceolate or _ 
oblong, acuminate, serrate; petiole 4-12 in. long, base 
_ expanded and at times sheathing. Jnflorescence a com- 
pact panicle of globose umbels, each umbel 1-13 in. 
across, with a peduncle, occasionally again branched, 
%-4 in. long; rachis and peduncles puberulous; bracts 
lanceolate, acute, reflexed. Flowers usually 5-merous, 
greenish-white ; pedicels about } in, long, finely pube- 
rulous. Calyx campanulate, 5-ribbed, +5 in. long, the 
lobes obsolete. Petals somewhat spreading, ovate, 
apiculate incurved and slightly saccate at the tip, keeled 
