of the sinus; the midrib infirm: veins not conspicuous. Peduncle 

 solitary at the center of the fasciculate leaves on the " kurztrieb," longer" 

 than the petiole or even exceeds the leaves, slender and strict, sometimes 

 with one or a few pedicels at the height above the middle and often 

 subtended by the bract. Umbel solitary, terminal on the long-peduncle, 

 hemisphBerical, densely flowered ; pedicels 5 to 55 in number, 7-15 mm 

 long, filiform, strict, glabrous, thick at the base and villose between them ; 

 involucral bracts much shorter than the pedicel, linear-subulate, linear-lance- 

 olate, or rarely lanceolate, persistent. Calyx superior, annular, 5-7-dentate, 

 teeth short and broad, acute, patent when flowered, persistent. Corolla 

 superior, ovate-semiorbicular in bud ; petals 5-7, valvate in the aestivation, 

 patent, triangular-ovate, or triangular-lanceolate, entire, with an attenuated 

 incurved tip, 2-2Jmm long, thick, glabrous, yellowish-green, deciduous, with. 

 a midrib and a few veins. Stamens 5-7, alternate to and much* shorter 

 than the petals, soon fall off; filaments triangular-subulate, very short, half 

 as long as the anther and attached at the point little below middle of it ; the 

 anther oval, 2-celled, introrse. Disk superior, carnose, marginate. Styles 

 connate to one, erect, thick, more carnose towards the base, 1mm long, 

 longitudinally sulcate, persistent; stigmatic-arms 5-7, radiate and reflexed, 

 oblong-cylindrical, obtuse, shorter than the style, with inner stigmatic-surfaces. 

 Ovary inferior, sub-sphterical, glabrous, 5-7-celled, 1-ovuled in each cell, 

 lj-2mm long, sub-articulated on the pedicel. Drupe baccate, globose, 

 smooth, strongly longitudinal-sulcate and angular when dried, crowned with a 

 persistent erect style and a dried rounded disk, 5-7mm in diameter ; pyrenae 

 5-7 in number, compressed, elliptical-oblong, the inner edge nearly straight, 

 yellowish-pale, coriaceous, not thick, the outer surface rough and the inner 

 smooth, 5-6mm long. 



Aralia pentaphylla Sieb. et Zucc. Flor. Jap. Fain. Nat. n. 417, n o n 

 T h u n b . excl. syn. Panax spinosum Linn. fil. 



Acanthopanax spinosum Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav. I. p. 10, 

 pro parte, excl. syn. Panax spinosum Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 441 ; Aralia. 

 pentaphylla Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 128. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-ukogi (Kanzan Ono Honzokomoku-Keimo, ed. 3, 

 XXXII. fol. 14 verso.), Ukogi (T. Iwasaki Honzo-Dzufu, LXXXIX. fol. 1 

 et fol. 2 recto.). 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa in Takaoka-gori (T. Makino ! 1885, Oct. 

 1892), Tochinoki in Aki-gori (T. Makino! June 4, 1892); Prov. Musashi: 

 Tokyo, planted (T. Makino! 1896, May 29, 1897). 



