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3. Fat si a DEONK et PLANCH. 



K<'i 1<> fl/c Fo 



Leaves enormously large, beneath covered with cotton wools, lobes entire. 



............. F. pujiy !!/'<'></. 



Leaves glabrous on. l:otli sides, lobes s< 'irately dentate .......... F. polijc/ trpa. 



Fatsia papyri f era BKNTH. et HOOK. ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enmn. PI. 

 Formos. p. 177.-Tetrapanax papyrifera C. KOCH. 



HAI;. Sniteiryo, Niki, Kelung, common in many otlier places. 

 DiSTROi. An endemic plant. 



Fatsia polycarpa HAVATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 105. Tall shrub. 

 Brandies at first covered with brownish soft laiiate tomentum, hairs long, at 

 last subglabrous. leaves (at first brownish lanate, at last glabrous) 

 ample, long petiolate, petioles as long as or shorter than blades, base 

 strongly dilate, ciliate, stipules slightly prominent within petioles, blades 

 broadly orbicular in outline, 15-30 cm. in diameter, deeply palmately 7-fid, 

 deeply sinuate between lobes, lobes oblongly obovate caudately acuminate 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, margin (excepting apical and 

 basal parts, and sinus) dentately serrate, serratures mucronately acumi- 

 nate, ascendent, palmately 7-nerved, beneath prominently nerved pallid. 

 Umbels paniculate, panicles terminal 30-40 cm. long, densely fulvo-lanate, 

 branches (lowest) 14 cm. long, umbels pedunculate, peduncles 1.1 cm. long, 

 as long as umbels; bracts at the base of umbels ovate 1 ?, -cm. long. 

 membranaceous deciduous densely lanate ; bracteoles minute linear. Umbels 

 nearly 20-nowered, globose in flower-buds, buds 1 cm. in diameter, covered 

 with laiiate tomentum, umbels at last patent li cm long, 2|- cm. in diameter. 

 Flowers when expanded 7 mm. in diameter long pedicelled, pedicels 1 cm. long 

 slender continued to flowers, but articulate at the base on the peduncles. 

 Calyx-tube short, slightly 10-sulcate, margin prominent. Petals 5, mem- 

 branaceous, vatvate extrorsely revolute, long triangular mucronate and acute 

 at the apex, 3.V mm. long, base scarcely broader than 2 mm. Stamens 5, 

 filaments filiformed longer than petals, patent, refiexed, anthers oblong. Disc 



