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Aralia  Papyri/era. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1879. 
six  inches  in  length,  and  the  thickest  was  rather  more  than  six  inches 
in  girth." 
Up  to  1855  none  of  the  living  plants  that  had  been  sent  to  the  Kew 
Museum  had  borne  flowers,  and  the  description  of  these  was  derived 
from  plants  under  cultivation  in  the  Governor's  garden  at  Hong  Kong. 
Aralia  Papyrifera. 
Root  and  part  of  stem,  cut  vertically ;  pith,  entire,  and  cut  vertically. 
By  comparing  the  accompanying  specimens  of  the  pith,  which  I  pro- 
cured in  Formosa  in  1868,  with  the  copy  of  this  part  of  the  plant,  taken 
from  "  Hooker's  Journal,"1  it  will  be  evident  that  they  were  really 
derived  from  the  plant  described  by  Hooker.  The  smaller  one  is  still 
covered  by  the  corrugated  envelope  referred  to  above,  while  the  larger 
one  has  been  deprived  of  this  covering  and  cut  into  the  cylindrical  form, 
in  which  shape  it  appears  to  be  always  sent  to  the  artists  who  cut  it 
into  sheets.  As  the  largest  cylinders  have  a  diameter  of  more  than  two 
inches,  and  as  some  of  them  are  solid,  it  will  be  seen  that  sheets  even 
1  The  above  figures  have  been  reduced  to  one-half  the  original  size. 
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