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part; flowers white, fruit black); Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, 

 cliffs, alt. 1800-2100 m., October 1910 (No. 4284; bush 2-2.6 m. tall, 

 flowers white, fruit black). 



ARALIA L. 



Aralia chinensis Linnaeus, Spec. 273 (1753). — De Candolle, Prodr. 

 IV. 259 (1830). — Bentham, Fl Hongk. 135 (1861). — Seemann in 

 Jour. Bot. VI. 133 (1868); Rev. Hederac. 90 (1868). — Henriques in 

 Bol Soc. Broter. III. 149 (1885). — Harms in Bot. Jahrh.XXlX. 490 

 (1900). — Pavolini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 418 (1908). — 

 Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. II. t. 55, fig. 13-24 (1908).— 

 Schneider, III. Handh. Laubholzk. II. 431, fig. 291 h, 292 b-g (1909). — 

 Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 678 (1910); 

 XVIII. 130 (1911). 



Leea spinosa Sprengel, Syst. I. 670 (1825). 



Aralia mandshurica Maximowicz io Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XV. 134 



(1857). — Maack & Ruprecht in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XV. 367 



(1857). 

 Dimorphanthus mandshuricus Ruprecht & Maximowicz in Mem. Sav. £tr. Acad. 



Sci. St. Petersbourg, IX. 133 (Prim. Fl. ATmir.) (1859). 

 Aralia spinosa Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 7 (1863) (non Linnaeus). — 



Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 191 (1875). — Hemsley in Jour. 



Linn. Soc. XXIII. 338 (1881). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. 



Inform, add. ser. X. 118 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). 

 Aralia Decaisneana Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. s^r. 5, V. 215 (1866) ; in Jour. 



Bot. IV. 172 (1866). 

 Aralia Planchoniana Hance in Jour. Bot. IV. 172 (1866). 

 Aralia mandshurica Seemann in Jour. Bot. VI. 134 (1868). 

 Aralia japonica Hort. ex K. Koch, Deiidr. I. 674 (pro synon.) (1869). 

 Aralia spinosa, ^ canescens Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 192 (1875). 

 Aralia spinosa, var. Chinensis Sargent, Silva N. Am. V. 90 (1895). 



Kiangsi : Ruling, thickets, alt. 1200 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 1508; 

 unbranched shrub 1.3-2 m. tall, flowers white). Western Hupeh: 

 north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 900-1500 m., August and 

 September 1907 (No. 128, in part; shrub 2-4 m. tall, flowers white, 

 fruit black) ; 'Changyang Hsien, alt. 900-1500 m., August 1907 (No. 

 128, in part); Patung Hsien, alt. 900-1500 m., August 1907 (No. 128, 

 in part); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 900-1500 m., August 1907 (No. 128, 

 in part). Northern Shensi : Lao-y-san, lS97,G.Giraldi. 



The specimens enumerated above are all rather densely pubescent on the under 

 side of the leaves and show scarcely any variation; they represent apparently typ- 

 ical A. chinensis, which seems to reach its western limit in western Hupeh, while 

 farther west it is replaced by the following variety. 



