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Aralia (Thirty species comprised)

Of the thirty species comprised in this genus, six are North American, one is Mexican, and the rest inhabit Eastern or tropical Asia, from Japan and Mandschuria as far as the Himalayas and the Indian Archipelago. The plant usually grown as Aralia Sieboldii is Fatsia japonica. To the species and varieties described on pp. 104-5, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. Chabrieri (Chabrier's), of gardens. A synonym of Elaeodendron orientale. A. Gemma (jewel). l. graceful, bipinnate; pinnules with small lateral leaflets and a large terminal one, all irregularly lobed or toothed, olive-green above, greyish-violet beneath when young. New Caledonia, 1883. An ornamental, stove shrub. (I. H. 1883, 477.) A. reginae (queenly). This is of larger habit than the Veitchii section; the leaf branches are more closely set, and the habit of growth is very graceful; the stem and petioles are freckled; the palmate divisions of the stalk are smooth, and of a uniform green. Stove.