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3. Fatsia Decne et Plakch. 



Key to the Formosa n Species. 



Leaves enormouslj large, beneath covered witli cotton w<x>ls, lobes entire. 



F. papyi-ifera. 



Leaves glabrous on both sides, lobes serrately dentate F. pdycarpa. 



Fatsia papyrifera Benth. et Hook. ; Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PL 

 Formos. p. 177. = Tetrapanax papyrifera C. Koch. 



Hab. Suiteiryo, Niki, Kelung, common in many other places. 

 DiSTRlB. An endemic plant. 



Fatsia polycarpa Hayata F1. Mont. Formos. p. 105. Tall shrub. 

 Branches at first covered with brownish soft lanate tomentum, hail's long, at 

 last subglabroas. Leaves (at first brownish lanate, at last glabrous) 

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

 strongly dilate, ciliate, stipules slightly prominent within petioles, blades 

 broadly orbicular in outline, 15-30 cm. in diameter, deeply palmately 7-fid, 

 deeply sinuate between lobes,, lobes oblongly obovate caudately acuminate 

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

 basal parts, and sinus) dentately serrate, seiratures mucronately acumi- 

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

 Umbels paniculate, panicles terminal 30-40 cm. long, densely fulvo-lanate, 

 branches (lowest) 14 cm. long, umbels pedunculate, peduncles 1|- cm. long, 

 as long as umbels; bracts at the base of umbels ovate 1- J cm. long, 

 membranaceous deciduous densely lanate ; bracteoles minute liiiear. Umbels 

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

 with lanate tomentum, umbels at last patent 1|- cm long, 2| cm. in diameter. 

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

 slender continued to flowers, but articulate at the base on the peduncles. 

 Calyx-tube short, slightly 10-sulcate, margin prominent. Petals 5, mem- 

 branaceous, valvate extrorsely revolute, long triangular mucronate and acute 

 at the apex, d^ mm. long, base scarcely broader than 2 mm. Stamens 5, 

 filaments filiformed longer than petals, patent, reflexed, anthers oblong. Disc 



