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senticosus Harms; Acanthopanax aspuratum Francli. et Sav.) occurs 

 also in Japan, in the island of Ezo (Hokkaido) ; this was first ascertained 

 by Professor Dr. K. Miyabe, and afterwards it was collected in a tract 

 between Tokoro and Abashiri in the province of Kitami, in the same 

 island, on August 11th 1897 by Professor M. Shirai, who has kindly 

 sent a specimen to our herbarium of the Science College of the Universi- 

 ty. Ezo-ukogi is the Japanese name for this species first given by 

 K. Miyabe. 



Acanthopanax asperatum Franeh. et Sav. Enumeratis plantarum 

 Japonicarum I. p. 193 et II. p. 378, is undoubtedly A. EleutJierococcus 

 (Maxim.) Makino but not A. divaricatum (Sieb. et Zucc.) Seem.; the authentic 

 specimen of Franchet and Savatier is from Ezo (Yeso), and this species 

 seems, according to the authors' description, to have been based on an 

 incomplete specimen. 



Acanthopanax sessilijiorum (Eupr. et Maxim.) Seem. ( = Panax 

 sessiliflorum Rupr. et Maxim.) appears to me to be a boreal variety of 

 A. divaricatum (Sieb. et Zucc.) Seem, but I am quite unacquainted with 

 it. 



I may state here in passing that the figure of Aralia pentaphylla 

 delineated by Q. M. "R. Ver Huell in 1854 which I have refered on 

 describing the last species belongs to Annales d'horticulture et de botanique 

 ou flore des jardins du royaume des Pays-Bas et histoire des plantes 

 cultivees et ornementales les plus interessantes des possessions neerlandaises 

 aus Indes orientaies, en Amerique et du Japon, edited by Ph. Fr. de 

 Siebold et W. H. de Vriese in 1858. 



(To be continued.) 



