58 60. AEALIACEJE. 



( 3 ) Leaves digitate Acantlopuiax. 2 



Leaves ample, palmately lobed Fatsia. 3 



( 4 ) Umbels sessile on the back of leaves, leaves simple Hdwingia. 4 



Umbels racemosely arranged, terminal Heptapleurum. 5 



( 5 ) Leaves simple, flowers sessile in heads ; heads paniculate. . Oreopcwax. G 

 Leaves simple, pedicels continuous, flowers pedicelled, not in heads. 



Hcdcra. 7 



1. Aralia Touux. 

 Key to the Farmosan Species. 



(1) Leaves beset with spines on petioles, leaflets dentate A. spinosa. 



Leaves unarmed leaflets repandate on the margin, not dentate. 



A. liypdeuca. 



Aralia hypoleuca PRESL. ; HAY ATA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 131. 

 HAB. Sliintengai, Ako, Bongaiisha, Uraisba, Arisan. 

 DISTRDJ. Philippines. 



OBSERV. According to W. B. H]-:MSLEY (Lid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 338), the present 

 species is the same as A. spinosa which is in itself very variable. 



Aralia spinosa LINN. ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 176. 



HAB. Hikaku, Tamsui. 



DISTRIB. Philippines, Japan, Cliina, Northern America. 



2. AcnntJiopanax Miy. 



Acanthopanax aculeatum SEEM. ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 176 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 104. 

 HAB. Tappansha. 

 DISTRIB. Eastern India, Central China and Japan. 



