54 REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER HEDERACEX. 
solitaria, pendula. Albumen equabile.—Herbe perennes, Amer. bor., 
Japon., Chin. et Ind. or. indigens, radice crassa, tuberosa; caule soli- 
tario, foliolorum verticillum unicum proferente ; foliis palmatim 3—5- 
foliolatis; umbellis terminalibus simplicibus.— Aureliana, Lafit. Mém. 
du Ginseng. dralie sp. auct. Eupanax (subgenus), Torrey et Gray, 
Fl. N. Am. i. p. 647. 
* Folia trifoliolata. 
l. P. trifolium, Linn. Spec. ii. p. 1058 ; Torr. et Gray, Fl. N. 
Amer. i. p. 648.— P. pusilla, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1334. Nom. vernac. 
Bor.-Amer. ** Dwarf Ginseng," v. * Ground Nut."— North America, 
from Canada to the mountains of the Southern United States (Kalm ! 
Bartram! ann. 1764, Nuttall! Kertland !). 
** Folia quinquefoliolata. 
2. P. quinguefolium, Linn. Spec. ii. p. 1058 ; Torr. et Gray, Fl. N. 
Amer. i. p. 648; C. A. Meyer in Bull. de la Class. phys. math. Ac. 
St. Petersb. i. 340; Walp. Rep. v. p. 925.—Awreliana Canadensis, 
Lafit. Mém. du Ginseng, cum icone ; Catesb. Hist. Carol. iii. p. 16. t. 
16.  raliastrum foliis ternis quinquepartitis, Ginseng et Nizier 
officin., Trew, Plant. Select. i.t. 6; Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. 723. t. 860, 
fig. 1; Bot. Mag. t. 1333. Nom. vern. Bor.-Amer. * Ginseng."— 
Woods of North America, from Canada to the Southern United 
States (Kalm ! Bartram! Kertland !). 
3. P. Ginseng, C. A. Mey. l. c. ; Walp. Rep. v. p. 924.—P. quin- 
quefolium v. P. Ginseng, Regel, * Gartenflora, 1862, sp. 314. t. 375? 
P. quinquefolium, B. Coreense, Siebold, Verh. Bat. Genoot. xii. P. 
Schinseng, var. Coreense, Nees, Suppl. Plant. Med. i. t. 16. fig. A.— 
Mantchuria and Corea. 
4. P. Pseudo-Ginseng, Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. ii. p. 30. t. 137; 
C. A. Meyer, l. c. ; Walp. Rep. v. p. 924; Pharm. Centralblatt, 1832, 
p. 353. t. 3. P. Schinseng, var. Nepalensis, Nees, 1. c. fig. C.—Moun- 
tains of India (Wallich! n. 3730, Hook. f. et Thomson! Griffith 1) 
5. P. bipinnatifidum, Seem. (sp. nov.) ; perenne, herbaceum ; foliis 
verticillatim |3—5-nis, digitatim 5-foliolatis, foliolis  bipinnatifidis, 
supra ad nervos pilis hispidis sparsis, demum glabratis; pedicellis 
apice articulatis, ealyeulo obscuro v. nullo ; stylis 2—3.— Sanding, East 
Indies (Herb. Hook.).—“ Berries like crabs'-eyes, exactly, with a broad 
black pallet at top." Allied to P. Pseudo- Ginseng. 
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