TaB. 8572. 
ECHINOPANAX HORRIDUS. 
Japan and North America. 
ARALIACEAE. Tribe SCHEFFLEREAE. 
Ecutnopanax, Dene et Planch. ; Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanaenfam. 
vol, iii. pars 8, p. 34. 
Echinopanax horridus, Dene et Planch. ea Macown Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. i. 
p. 189; Harms in Engl. é Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 8, p. 34; 
Nakai in Journ, Coll. Sci. Tokyo, vol. xxvi. p. 276; species unica. 
Frutex 1-8-metralis. Caulis aculeis plurimis armatus, basi repens, apice 
foliatus. Folia petiolata, palmatifido-palmata, 5-9-loba, 15-25 cm. 
diametro, lobulis pinnatifidis et irregulariter dentatis, venis aculeatis ; 
petioli 8-20 cm. longi, aculeati. Flores umbellati; umbellae globosae, 
in racemos vel paniculas compactas dispositae, rhachi aculeata et dense 
villosa; bracteae suborbiculares, fimbriatae, deciduae. Flores breviter 
pedicellati, pallide virides.  Calycis lobi 2 spinescentibus exceptis. 
brevissimi. Petala 5-6, valvata, ovata vel ovato-oblonga, 3 mm. longa, 
apice acuta et incurva. Filamenta glabra, 3-4 mm. longa; antherae 
longae, 1°5 mm. longae. Styli 2, distincti, 1°5 mm. longi, apice 
divergentes. Fructus obovoideus, sulcatus, subcompressus, 5-6 mao. 
longus, coccineus, stylis persistentibus coronatus ; pedicelli 7-8 mm. 
longii—Echinopanax sp., Dene et Planch. in Rev. Hort. 1854, p. 105. 
Pana horrida, Smith in Rees Cyclop. vol. xxvi. n. 10; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. 
p. 252; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. vol. i. p. 273, t. 985 Bongard Veg. Sitka, 
p. 25; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. vol. i, p, 648. Aralia erinacea, Hook. 
in Edinb. Journ. Sci. vol. vi. p. 64; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 259. Oplopanax 
horridus, Miq. Ann. Mus, Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 16; Franch, et Sav. Enum. 
Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 194. Fatsia sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. 
p. 989. F. horrida, 8. Watson, Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 273; Macoun Cat. 
Canad. Pl. vol. i, p. 189; Coult. Man. Bot. Rocky Mt. Reg. p. 122.— - 
R. A. Rone. 
The striking Araliad which is here figured is a plant as 
to whose classification there has been no little difference 
of opinion. Originally described by Smith as Panax 
horrida, it was soon afterwards described again by the 
elder Hooker as Aralia erinacea. In their Flora Torrey 
and Grey recognised the identity of Hooker’s species 
with that of Smith, whom they followed in treating it as 
a Panax, but as the type within that genus of a distinct 
section Oplopanax, which Miquel subsequently treated as 
a distinct genus. In this conclusion, however, Miquel 
had been anticipated by Decaisne and Planchon, who 
proposed for the genus the name Eehinepanax. The 
Sepremper, 1914. 
