58 60. AIULIA.CEJE. 



( 3 ) Leaves digitate ................................. AcantJiopanax. 2 



Leaves ample, palmately lobed .......................... Fatsia. 3 



(4) Umbels sessile on the back of leaves, leaves simple ...... Hchrii/</i<r. 4 



Umbels racemosely arranged, terminal ............. Heptapleurum. 5 



( 5 ) Leaves simple, flowers sessile in heads ; heads paniculate. .Oirojn/n.i\ G 

 Leaves simple, pedicels continuous, flowers pedicelled, not in heads. 



............ Hedcro. 7 



1. Aralia Torux. 



Rt:'ij to tlr, Fornioxan ^juries. 



(1) Leaves beset with spines on petioles, leaflets dentate ....... A. ^/n 



Leaves unarmed leaflets repandate on the margin, not dentate. 



............ A. 



Aralia hypoleuca PHESL. ; HAYATA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 131. 

 HAIS. Shinteiigai, Ako, Bongarisha, Ui-aislia, Arisan. 

 DISTED:. Philippines. 



OBSERV. According to W. B. HKMSLKY (Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 338), the present 

 sjiecies is the same as A, xjt'mnxn which is in itself very variable. 



Aralia spinosa Lrxx. ; MATSOF. et HAYATA Knum. PI. Formos. p. 176. 



HAH. Hikaku, Tamsui. 



DISTETB. Phili])pinos, Jjipaii, China, Northern America. 



2. Acfntthopanax MK.*. 



Acanthopanax aculeatum SI:I;.M. ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 176; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 104. 

 HAIS. Tappansha. 

 DLSTIIIB. Ivistern India, Centi-al China and Japan. 



