. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Botany. 144 Systematics of Aralia Aralia rex. 20° N 80° W Fig. 54. Map of Cuba showing the distribution of Aralia rex. 1856, nom. nud. Sciadodendron excelsum Griseb,, Bonplandia 6: 7. 1858. TYPE: Panama. (lectotype: GOET!, here designated). Reynoldsia americana , Bot. Gaz. 49: 455. 1910. TYPE: Costa Rica. Peninsula Nicoya, tree of medium height, nomen vernaculare "Chile", Jan 1900, A. Tonduz 13823 (holotype: US!, photo at NY; isotype: US!). Pentapanaxgranatensis Rusby, Desc. S. Amer. PI. 72. 1920. TYPE
. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Botany. 144 Systematics of Aralia Aralia rex. 20° N 80° W Fig. 54. Map of Cuba showing the distribution of Aralia rex. 1856, nom. nud. Sciadodendron excelsum Griseb,, Bonplandia 6: 7. 1858. TYPE: Panama. (lectotype: GOET!, here designated). Reynoldsia americana , Bot. Gaz. 49: 455. 1910. TYPE: Costa Rica. Peninsula Nicoya, tree of medium height, nomen vernaculare "Chile", Jan 1900, A. Tonduz 13823 (holotype: US!, photo at NY; isotype: US!). Pentapanaxgranatensis Rusby, Desc. S. Amer. PI. 72. 1920. TYPE: Colombia. MAGDALENA: Santa Marta, near Masinga, 250 ft, a tree to 40 ft or more, occasional in forest below 1500 ft, flowers March-April, white, flowers terminal 10-20 short branchlets crowded together forming a large cluster, leaves deciduous about the time flowering, leaves 3-pinnate, 22 Mar 1898-99, H. H. Smith 1595 (holotype: NY!; isotypes: E!, K!, P!, 2 sheets, PH!, U!, US!, 2 sheets). Highly branched and unarmed tree (4) 8-30 m tall, dbh 20-50 cm, hermaphrodite, bark furrowed. Leaves 60-125 cm long, 50-100 cm wide, quadripinnately to tripinnately compound, or bipinnately compound when young, with 5-6 pairs of primary pinnae; stipules 10-13 mm long, mm wide, adnate to the base of petiole, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, glabrous and more or less ciliate at margin; petioles 20-50 cm long, purplish green; rachises green, turning purplish, subtended by a pair of accessory 3-5-foliolate pinnae at the base of each primary pinna; leaflets 4-7 cm long, cm wide, glabrous, apex acuminate, base rounded, margin sparsely serrate, adaxial surface green, abaxial surface light green, petiolule more or less articulated below the blade, that of lateral leaflets 0-5 mm long, that of terminal leaflets 10-20 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescence consisting of 1-6 panicles on a short branch, each panicle 7-15 cm long, 5-12 cm wide, with 10-20 umbels racemosely arranged on a main axis,
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