58 CORRESPONDENCE. 
to be species of Acanthopanaz, a genus differing in its spinose habit and 
dry fruit from Teérapanax, but which is by far more intimately related 
toit than Fatsia, to which Hook. fil. and Bentham (Gen. Plant. p. 939) 
have referred both Aralia papyrifera and A. erinacea (= Horsfieldia). 
Ed. Otto has already pointed out (Hamburg. Gartenz. 1. c.) that in 
Aralia papyrifera pentamerous flowers predominate over the tetramerous 
ones, and that the name Te¢rapanaz is on that account open to objection ; 
but if we had to change every inappropriate name our botanical nomen- 
clature would have to undergo considerable alterations, and I therefore 
shall retain C. Koch’s name. e only species of Zetrapanax at pre- 
sent known is the following :— 
l. T. papyrifera, C. Koch, l. e.—Aralia (?) papyrifera, Hook. in 
Kew Journ. iv. p. 53. t. Let 2. 4. papyrifera, Hook. Bot. Mag. 
t. 4897; Fl. des Ser. viii. t. 806, 807: xii. t. 1201; G. Bennett, 
Gatherings of a Naturalist, t. 6; G. Bennett's Wanderings, vol. ii. 
p. 77, cum icone (1834); ejusd. in Seem. Journ. of Bot. 1834, 
p. 309; “ Rice-paper Plant ” of English Gardens.— Island of Formosa. 
Interesting particulars about the habit of this plant are given in this 
Journal by Dr. Bennett, who, it appears, was the first to publish a 
figure of the Rice-paper Plant. It throws up numerous suckers, and 
the suckers flower the second year after they have been removed from 
the mother plant, and every time after flowering form two new branches. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Ononis reclinata in Devonshire. 
ortland Villas, Plymouth, 28th Dec. 1867. 
A botanical friend, Mr. E. Holmes, of 2, Arundel Crescent, Plymouth, has 
he found growing with Bupleurum aristatum (Bartl.) at Berry Head, Devon, 
on 14th June, 1865. 
I told him of the importance of the fact, ‘bit his genesis = not allow 
him to write a statement of it for the ‘Journal of Botany ; consequently I 
am induced to employ my pen for him. I have never ed at Berry 
myself, so am unwilling to express an opinion as to whether it is indigenous or 
otherwise; but to prove that no mistake has been made with regard to the 
species, I enclose a specimen obtained there by Mr. Holmes. 
J. R. ARCHER BRIGGS. 
