DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. 131 



Tribe ARALIE^^. 



Aealia FORMOSA Heer. 



Fl. V. MoleteJD, p. 18, PI. viii, Fig. 3; Lesquereux, Oret. and Tert. Fl., p. GO, PI. xi, 



Figs. 3, 4. 



Arabia Saportanea Lesq. 



Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 61, PL viii. Figs. 1, 2; PI. ix, Figs. 1, 2. Haydeu's Ann. Rept., 

 1874, p. 350, PI. 1, Figs. 2, 2a. 



Aralia Saportanea Lesq., var. deformata, n. var. 

 PI. XXIII, Figs. 1, 2. 



Leaves small, paliuately live lobate, lobes detonued, narrow, mostly 

 entire. 



In Fig. 1 the median nerve is partly abortive or reduced to half its 

 length and width; while the lateral ones are nearly entire and equal. In 

 Fig. 2 the lateral lobes are short, ol)tuse on one side of the leaf, longer and 

 dentate on the other, and with secondaries obsolete. Comparing these leaves 

 to those of the normal forms (loc. cit), one sees easily that the differences 

 in the characters of these leaves is the result of casual deformation. 



Habitat : Ellsworth County, Kansas. Museum of the University of 

 Kansas. 



Aralia Wellingtoniana, sp. nov. 

 PI. XXI, Fig. I; PL XXII, Figs. 2, 3. 



Leaves large, coriaceous, palmately three or five lobed, narrowed in an 

 inward curve to a prolonged base, decurring to the petiole; lobes long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, abruptly pointed, sharply equally dentate from above the 

 base, the teeth turned outside or slightly upward, separated by shallow 

 sinuses; primary nerves broad and flat; secondaries more or less oblique, 

 slightly curving or nearly straight in passing to the borders, entering the 

 teeth, I'raspedodrome, mostly simple; areolation distinctly reticulate, in 

 iiTegularly quatlrate or polygonal meshes. 



The leaves, which are IS*"" to IG"" long, excluding the petiole, vary of 

 course in width according to the number of lobes and their divergence from 

 the median nerve, which in most of the specimens that I have seen averages 

 35°. The lobes are a little broader in the middle, slightly narrowing to 

 the sinuses,. 7""" to lO"^"" long, and from 2°" to 3"™ broad at the middle. The 



