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3. fatsia DECXE et PLANCH. 



KI-IJ if tli- Fi >r m.f. tsfi.it Sj >''-. 



enormou>ly larg*-. b-neath covered with cotton wools, lobes entire. 



F. -papyrlfi. r". 



ves L^lal m>us on both sides, lobes serrate 1 , y dentate F, poiycarpa. 



Fatsia papyri f era BKXTH. et H<M>K. : MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enura. PI. 

 Fonnos. p. 177. = Tetrapanax papyrifera C. KOCH. 



HAI;. Suiteiryo. Niki, Keluug, common in many other places. 

 PisTim;. An endemic plant. 



Fatsia poiycarpa HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formo>. ]i. l<>-">. Tall shrub. 

 Branches at iii-st covered with brownish soft lanat- tomentum, liairs long, at 

 la^t Mibglabnuis. leaves (at fir*t brownisli lanate, at last glabrous) 

 ample, long petiolate, petioles as long as or shorter tlian blades, base 

 strongly dilate, ciliat\ sti]>nl.-> slightly prominent within jietioles, blade- 

 broadly orbicular in outline, l")-30cm. in diameter, deeply palmately 7-fid, 

 deeply <innate between lol^es, lolies oblongly obovate caudately acuminate 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, margin (excepting apical and 

 basal parts, and sinus) dentately serrate, serratures mncnmately acumi- 

 nate, ascendent, palmately 7-nerred, beneath prominently nerved pallid. 

 UmV>els paniculate, i>anicles terminal 30-40 cm. long, densely fulvo-lanatf, 

 branches (l<>\v,-t 14cm. long, umbels }>edunculate, peduncles 1.}- cm. long, 

 a- lon^r as umljels ; bnicts at the Iwise of umbels ovate 1-1 cm. long, 

 membranaceous deciduous d-n--f!y lanate; bracteoles minute linear. Umbels 

 nearly 20-tlowered, globose in flower-buds, buds 1 cm. in diameter, covered 

 with lanate tomentum, umbels at last patent l.Vcmloug, 2 i cm. in diameter. 

 Flowers when expanded 7 mm. in diameter long pedicelled, pedicels 1 cm. long 

 slender continued to flown-*-., but articulate at the base on the peduncle^. 

 Calyx-tub*- short, slightly lO-siilcate, margin prominent. Petals o, mem- 

 braiiaceous. valvate extrorsely revolute, long triangular mucronate and acute 

 at the a]>ex, 3.V mm. lng. ba-f scarcely b.roader than 2 mm. Stamens ~*. 

 filament- filiformed longer than petals, patent, reflexed, anthers oblong. Pi-e 



