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AKALIACEAE. 



PANAX LINK 



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Genus quale a likxaeo prim^on ccstitutim est, natnrale, rejectis aliquibus speciebus recentiori tempore ei 

 adscriptis, omnino servandum. Male cl. pi-anchox et decaisxe arclietn-a. species P. trifolmm et P. qumque- 

 foliunf ad Araliae genus transtulemnt, nee recte ipse plures indicas specie, suflrut.co.as Nothopanacis t.tulo 

 sejuuxi. Flores umbcllulati in pedicello articulati pentandri, di-, raro, lusu potius, trigyni, fructus a latenbus 

 compressi, biloculares, stjlique subuluti saepe acutiusculi chaiacteres liaud fallaces exliibeni 

 § 1 AraUastrum VAU.i.. Herbaceae, foliis in apice caulis verticillatis ; umbellae solitariae longe pedunculatae. — 



Subg. Euj^ana^ tour, et as. gray Flor. Nora America I. p. 607. Anreliana c. a. meijeu in Bnllef. Chss. 



plys. math. Acad. St. Fetersb. I. p. 340. 



1. Pawax trifolium linn. Spec. p. 151?. — Specimon lierbarii persoon. 



2. Panax quiwquefolium linn. Spec. I c. — Spccimina americana herb, royeni et meer- 

 BURGii. — Calyx cum pedicello perspicuc articulatus, hie flore deciduo adhuc persistens. 



Dc stirpe americana per Asiam orient, niediam ctiam distributa ibique celebrem radicem Ginsenff 

 proferente conf. eel. asa gray {on the Botany of lapan, in BoL Memoirs exfr. VI. vol Jmeric Acad., 

 p. 301): ,/the other, the still more interesting Aralia (Ginseng) quinquefolia, exactly onr Northeastern. 

 American Ginseng, which is unknown AVest of the Missisippi and the Great Lakes. The early Mis- 

 sionairics ware correct in their identification of the Ginseng of America with that of Tartary; and 

 the Himalayan plant may safely added to the species." — Et porro legenda quae cl. regel {Tenta- 

 men Florae Usauriensis, Petrq). 1861, p. 72) habet: „Panax quinquefolium linn. var. Ginsen(/ ^m^i. 

 et MAACK. Proxhnum P. qninqucfolio typico ct P. Pseudo-Ginseng wall. P. quinquefolium typi- 

 cum folioUs oblongo-obovatis subinciso-servatis et pedunculo petiolum acquante recedit, P. Paeudo- 

 Giiisen"- foliolis supra secus nervos costamque cano-setosis et pedunculo petiolum aequante facile distiiiT 

 guitur." — „Crescit P. quinquefolium var. Ginseng in montanis Kuburaka in regione fl. Ussuri su- 

 pcrioris. Sinensium teslimonio ad dextrum et sinistrum latus illius fluvii usque ad 47= lat. bor., fre- 



quentius tamen in ripa dextra." 



P. Pseudo-Ginseng wall. Cat. n. 3730. PL Asiat. rar. II. p. 30, tad. 137. meijer /. c. P. Sc/nn- 

 iicng var. nepalensis nees PI. med. SuppL I. tab. Ifi, fig. C. In spec, snppetentibus planta multo te- 

 nerior quam P. quinquefolium araericanum; folia (sed alioquin 5) quaterna, foliolis minoribus angus- 

 tioribns ellipticis vel plerisque elliptico- vel sublanceolato-oblongis acuminafissimis, duplicato-setoso- 

 serratis, pilis albidis sctulosis in ncrvis rcgularitcr dispositis. — Insignis certe forma, nisi niaiorc iure 

 species. — Crescit in regione Ilimalayana: WALLit;H. 



Panacis ([uinquefolii formae in laponia {P. coraiense siEB. mss.) plures sunt, ab americanis folio- 

 lorum forma eodem mode recedentes ac ussumenses et chinenses, quas cl. regel descripsit. (Hue 

 P. Ginseng c. a. meijer /. c. — P. Schinseng var. coraiensis nees I. c. fig. A). 



Quoad sexum duas speciminum grcgcs distinxi: a. maseulina? ovario brcviore, calycis limbo te- 

 neriore acute 5-dentato (floreni unum alterumve vidi tetramerum), filamentis anthera longioribus, sty- 

 lis ad basin fere liberis apice vix perspicuc stigmatosis. — - b. herinaphrodita, ovario ovoidoo, stamini- 

 bus petala lanceolato-elliptica aequantibus, stylis crassis arete conniventibus, apice leviter tumidulo 

 stigmatosis, in fructu longioribus totisque magis divaricatis. Fructus didymo- compressi. Omnibus 

 foliola e basi acuta vel cuneata elliptica vel elliptico-oblonga acuminata subdnplicato-serrata, scrraturis 

 mucronulatis et setula mucroniformi sinu singulo inter dentes a facie superiore inserta. 



Lusiis prostant sequentes: 



a minor, foliis quaternis (in stcrilibus 2), 5-folioIatis, pedunculo petiolos quadruplo superante. 



§ maior, foliis quaternis, 5- raro 3-foliolatis, foliolis extimis valde diniinntis, pedunculo petiolos 

 duplo superante foha aequante, fructifcro adhuc magis elongato. 



'/ grosse serrata, foliolis grosse subinciso-duphcato-serratis. 



9 sudsessilis (Panax iaponica sieb. herb.), foliis ternis, 5-et3-foliolatis, foliolis subsessUibus vol 

 proTsus sessilibus, slmpliciter vel superne subduplicato-serratis, pedunculo apice bifido biuml)ellulato, 

 petiolos longe foliola altius superante. — Fere species, sed unicum taiitiiiu suppetit specimen. Cl. sie- 

 BOLD P. quinqiiefolii var. iaponici titulo fusius descripsit in VerL Batav. Genootsch. vol. XII. 



