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238 REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER IIEDERACEiE. 
(Menzics ! Capt. Portlock! in Mrs. Brit.), Wahlanat (Nuttall! in 
Mus. Brit.) ; Japan (C. Wright ! Herb. Kew !). 
There is a good illustration of the mode of growth and habit of 
this plant (so great an impediment to travellers in the woods of north- 
. west America) in my translation of Kitlitz's ' Twenty-four Views of the 
Islands and Vegetation of the Pacific,' plate ii. fig. 7-^- and 2/3 
Acanthopanax, Seem. mss. Pedicelli inarticulati, ecalyculati- 
Flores ecalyculati. Calyx minute 5-dentatus. Petala 5, 1-nervia, 
libera, vnlvata. Stamina petalorum numero iisque alterna ; anthera 
ovatse. Styli 2, basi connati, apice divaricati. Ovarium 2-loculare, lo- 
culis 1-ovulatis. Fructus didymo-compressus, 2-locularis. Albumen 
eequabile. — Arbusculse v. frutices aculeati, Indiae or., Chinae, et Ja- 
ponic, foliis digitatim 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis serratis, stipulis axilla- 
ril)us aculeatis recurvis, umbellis globosis solitariis v. paniculatis. 
Acanthopanax, Seem. mss. Panax subg. Acanthopanax, Dene, et 
Planch. Kev. Hort. 1854, p. 105. Kalopanacis sp., Miq. Plectronia, 
Lour. Fl. Cochin. 
Folia 3-foliolata . . . • A. aculeatum. 
Folia 5-foliolata. 
Petioli inermes . . l A A s f no \ 
I A. divan 
Petioli armati . . . A A ' V£StL^m 
\ A. ses.tiujiorum. 
1. A. aculeatum,, Seem. Panax aculeatum, Ait. Kew. iii. p. 448; 
De Cand. Prod. iv. p. 252 ; Jacq. Coll. iv. p. 175 ; Icon. Bar. t. 634. 
Zanihoxylon trifoliatum, Linn. Spec. 1455 ; Lam. Diet. ii. p- 40. 
Plectronia Chinemis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. i. p. 201. Panax Lourei- 
rianum, De Cand. 1. c. p. 252. Aralia trifoliata, Meyen, Reise, it 
p. 332, nomen, teste C. Koch, Wochenschrift, 1859, p. 366.— Southern 
China, about Canton and Macao (Seemann ! n. 2457; Millett! in 
Herb. Hook. ; Sir G. Staunton ! Robertson ! Bradley ; Lord Macart- 
ney ! in Mus. Brit.), Assam plains (Jenkins in Herb. Hook.), Khassia 
(Griffith ! in Herb. Hook.) j East Indies (Wallich !, n. 4926), Assam 
(Griffith !, n. 787 in Mus. Brit.), Amoy (Herb. Bth.). 
2. A. spinosum, Miq. Ann. Lugd.-Bat. i. p. 10.— Panax spinosa, 
Linn. fil. Suppl. 441; Lam. Diet. ii. p. 715. Aralia pentap¥ la 
Thunb. Fl. Jap. 128 ; De Cand. Prodr. iv. p. 259.— Japan (Thm**?' 
in Mus. Brit. ; Wright ! in Herb. Hook.). Thunberg's specimen at 
the British Museum has only 2, Dot 5, styles. 
spinosum. 
aricatum. 
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