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8. Fatsia Dzcowx et Pravon. 
Key to the. Formosan. Species. 
Leaves enormously large, beneath eovered with eotton wools, lobes entire. 
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avo. d ges ISO C F. pepyrifera. 
Leaves elabrous on both sides, lobes serrately dentate......... .F. polyearpa. 
Fatsia papyrifera Drwru. et Hoox.; Marsuw. et Havara. Enum. PI. 
Formos. p. 177. — Tetrapanax papyrifera C. Kocu. 
Har. Suiteiryo, Niki, Kelune, common in many other places. 
DisrREs. An endemie plant. 
Fatsia polycarpa Havara Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 105. Tall shrub. 
Branches at first eovered. with brownish soft lanate tomentum, hairs long, at 
last subelabrous. — Leaves (at first brownish  lanate, at last glabrous) 
ample, long petiolate, petioles as long as or shorter than blades, base 
strongly dilate, eiliate, stipules slightly prominent within petioles, blades 
broadly orbieular in outline, 15-30 em. in dinmeter, deeply palmately 7-fid, 
deeply sinuate between lobes, lobes oblongly obovate eandately aeuminate 
at the apex, narrowed at the base, margin (excepting apical and 
basal parts, and sinus) dentately serrate, serratures mucronately / acumi- 
nate, ascendent, palmately -nerved, beneath prominently nerved pallid. 
Umbels panieulate, panieles terminal 20-40 em. long, densely fulvo-lanate, 
branehes (lowest) 14 em.long, umbels pedunenulate, peduncles 1j em. long, 
as long as umbels; braets at the base of umbels ovate 1-1 em. long. 
membranaceous deeiduous densely lanate ; braeteoles minute linear. | Umbels 
nearly 20-fowered, globose in flower-buds, buds leni.in diameter, covered 
with lanate tomentum, umbels at last patent 1j emlong, 23 em.in diameter. 
Flowers when expanded 7 mm. in diameter long pedicelled, pedicels 1 em. long 
slender continued to flowers, but articulate at the base on the peduncles. 
Calyx-tube short, slightly l0-suleate, margin prominent.  Petals 5, mem- 
branaceous, valvate extrorsely revolute, long triangular mueronate and acute 
at the apex, 31 mm. long, base searcely broader than 2 mm. Stamens 5, 
filaments filiformed longer than petals, patent, reflexed, anthers oblong. Disce 
