ARALIACEAE. — ACANTHOPANAX 563 



957). Eastern Szech'uan: without precise locality, cultivated, A. 

 Henry (No. 5890). 



This species is closely related to A. spinosus Miquel, but differs from it in the 

 villose underside of the leaves. 



Acanthopanax lasiogyne Harms, n. sp. 



Frutex 2-6-metralis; ramulis glabris cortice subpallido vel pallide 

 cinereo; folia breviter v. longiuscule petiolata petiolo glabro 1.5-6 

 cm. longo. Foliola 3, subsessilia v. sessilia v. brevissime petiolulata, 

 pro rata latiuscula v. lata, oblonga v. obovato-oblonga v. obovata 

 (lateralia plus minusve obliqua, interdum ovata v. oblongo-ovata), 

 basi acuta v. in petiolulum angustata v. lateralia oblique obtusa, apice 

 latiuscule breviter acuminata v. acuminulata v. acuta v. acumine de- 

 structo obtusa, margine Integra v. subintegra v. sursum pauciserrata, 

 circiter 4-6 cm. longa et 1.5-4.5 cm. lata. Umbella terrainalis densi- 

 flora, breviter v. brevissime pedunculata, floribus albidis, pedicellis 

 parce albido-pilosulis, circiter 5-7 mm. longis, ovario albido-villosulo 

 tomento detergibili; styli 2, basi connati. Fructus compressus, mar- 

 gine calycino parce albido-villosulo v. subglabro, stylis 2 basi breviter 

 V. interdum fere ad medium connatis coronatus, 7-8 mm. longus, 

 niger. 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2100-2400 m., 

 August and October 1908 (No. 1313, type); same locality, alt. 1500- 

 1800 m., September 1910 (No. 4167). 



This species resembles A. sessiliflorus Seemann in its woolly flowers, but is easily 

 distinguished from it by the longer pedicels and the nearly free or only partly con- 

 nate styles. 



Acanthopanax evodiaefolius Franchet in Jour, de Bot. X. 306 (1896). 



Western Hupeh: mountains north of Ichang, 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 1142). Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen- 

 ch'uan Hsien, alt. 2000 m., October 1910 (No. 4204; tree 16 m. tall, 

 girth 1.3 m., bark smooth, pale gray; fruit black). 



Acanthopanax trifoliatus Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 427 

 (pro synon.) (1909). — Rehder in Bailey, Standard Cycl. Hort. I. 

 193 (1914). 



Zanlhoxylum trifoliatum Linnaeus, Spec. 270 (1753), ed. 2, II. 1455 (1763). — 



Lamarck, Encycl. MM. II. 40 (17S6). 

 Panax aculcatum Aiton, Hort. Kew, III. 448 (1789). — Jacquin, Coll. IV. 175 



(1790); Icoji. PL Rar. III. 20, t. 634 (1786-93). — Willdenow, Spec. IV. 



