Description op the Varieties. 

 Alalia quinquefolia, Decne. S; Planch, in Rev. Hortic, ser. iv., 

 iii., p. 105, (typus ad varietates discriminandas ex parte 

 descriptus). Foliola majora late obovata, conspicue acmninata 

 (acumine |-^ poll, longo), basi rotundata vel obtusissima, margine 

 serrata, dentibus majoribus iterum minute serrulatis, 3^-4| poll, 

 longa, l|-2 poll, lata, Isevia, subnitida. Pedunculus petiolis fere 

 aequana vel rare sublongior ; Umhella singula. Radix crassa 

 fusiformis ; rhizoma ssepe hreve.—Keiv BuUetin, l»9a, p. 71 ; 

 Panaa^ guinquefoUiim, Linn.; D.C Prod,, iv., p. 252; Bof. 

 Mag., t. 1333 ; Barton, Med. Bot. (1818), ii., t. 45, p. 191 ; Nees, 

 Ic. PL Med. Oder Sammlung Of. Pfl. (1828) fasc. 5, 1. 15 ; Bigelow, 

 Med. Bot., ii., t. 29, p. 82; Butz'in Pennsylvania Dept., Agric. 

 Bull, No. 27, pp. 8-13 ; Nash in U.S. Dept., Agric. Bot. BtdL, 



J regulariter b 

 lata, satis pau 

 ma j ores obsita, vix nitentia ; petiolus ad | poll, longus. 

 Pedunculus petiolis cum laminis longior. Umhella speciminibus 

 visis singula. Rhizoma perbreve ; radix fusiformis. — Ketv 

 BuUetin, 1892, p. 107. Aralia quinquefolia, A. Gray, in Mem. 

 Amer. Acad. Sc, n.s., vi., p. 391 ; Hemsl.m Journ. Linn. Soe. Bot. 

 xxiii., p. 338. Panax quinquefoUum, var. Ginseng, Regel & Maack 

 ex Regel in Gartenflora, 1862, p. 314, t. 375 ; P. quinquefoUum 

 var. coreense, Sieb., in Verhandl. hot. Genootsch. xii. ; Panax 

 Ginseng, C. A. Meyer in Bull. Phijs.-Math. Acad., St. Petersh., 

 i., 1843, p. 340 ; Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Fl., Jap., i., p. 192 

 in nota ; Useful Plants of Japan (published by Agric. Soc, Japan, 

 1895) p. 115, t. 431 ; Honzo-zufu, vol. i., figs. 5, 6 and 8 ; Soynoku- 

 zusetsu, vol. iv., fig. 45. 



Hab. Manchuria, and cultivated in Japan and Corea, Tlsuri, 

 Maack ; Chang-pei-shan, between Mukden and Kirin, James. 



" Ninzin," the Japanese name, is of very wide application. Sium 

 Ntnsi gets its specific name from it and many Umbelliferse, among 

 them the carrot, have it in combination with some epithet for 

 their Japanese name. 



Var. repens, Burkill. Foliola majora elliptico-ovata vel late 

 obovata, acuminata (acumine ad \ poll, longo), basi subacuta. 

 margine regulariter serrata vel plantarum japonicarum forsan vix 

 maturatarum irregulariter argute apicem versus grosse serrata, 

 dentibus iterum serratulatis, ad 5 poll, longa, ad 3 poll, lata vel 

 raro multe angustiora, laevia, nitentia ; petiolulus bievis. Pedun- 

 culus petiolis cum laminis, saepe bis longior. Umhella singula 

 vel umbellia lateralibus parvis consociata. Rhizoma repens, 

 elongatum; rctdicem crassam {teste script orum)-Panax repens, 

 Maxim, m Bull. Acad., St. Petersh., 1868, p. 64; Franchet and 

 Sava ler, Lnum PL Jap i P- 192 ; Useful Plants of Japan 

 (published by Agricultural Society, Japan, 1895), p. 114 t. 430 

 Eonzo-zufu, vol. i., fol. 7 ; Somoku-zusetsu, vol. iv., fig. 4?] 



