ARALIACEAE. — ACANTHOPANAX 557 



1908 (No. 1 136, bush 2-3 m. tall, fruit black); same locality, alt. 1200- 

 1800 m., August 1908 (No. 1955; bush 1.6-3 m. tall, flowers greenish); 

 west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1500-1800 m., July 

 1908 (No. 1954; bush or small tree 3-5 m. tall, flowers greenish). 

 Nothopanax Bockii Harms is possibly only a small-leaved form of this species. 



Nothopanax Rosthornii Harms in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 487 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1200 m., 

 August 1907 (No. 1961, in part; bush 5 m. tall, flowers white); with- 

 out precise locahty, August 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 2497; bush 3 m. 

 tall). Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, woodlands, alt. 900 

 m., September 8, 1908 (No. 1961, in part; tree 8 m, tall, flowers white) ; 

 Mt. Omei, September 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4938; bush 5 m. tall, 

 flowers white). 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 314 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 102. 



ACANTHOPANAX Miq. 



Sect. I, Eleutherococcus Harms. 



Acanthopanax Henryi Harms in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 III. Abt. 8,49 (1897) ; in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 488 (1900).— Gard. Chron. 

 ser. 3, XXXVIII. 402, fig. 151 (1905). — Schneider, III. Handh. Lauh- 

 holzk. II. 424, fig. 289 h-i, 290b (1909).— Stapf in Bot. Mag. CXXXVI. 

 t. 8316 (1910). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. VIII. 

 130 (1911). 



Eleutherococcus Henryi Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XVIII. t. 1711 (1887). — 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 341 (1887). — Hesse in Mitt. Deutsch. 

 Dendr. Ges. XXII. 272, fig. (1913). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 1200-2100 m., October 

 1907 (Nos. 379, 1977; shrub 1.25-2 m. tall, fruit black); without 

 precise locality, A. Henry (Nos. 4832, 7609). 



Acanthopanax leucorrhizus Harms in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzen- 

 fam. III. Abt. 7, 49 (1897); in Bot. Jahrh. XXXIX. 488 (1900).— 

 Bean, Trees & Shruhs Brit. Isl. I. 130, fig. (1914). 



Eleutherococcus leu/:orrhizus Ohver in Hooker's Icon. XVIII. sub t. 1711 

 (1887). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 342 (1887). 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1200-1800 m., 

 July and August 1907 (Nos. 1965, 1967; bush 1.60-3.10 m.); Patung 



