. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. e that identification from description only,and after seeing the leaf of A. triloba sent tohim from Kew finds he was quite wrong in sup-posing it to be the same as Polyscias pinnata,and that Aralia triloba is identical with Her-rania palmata and with juvenile stages of Hernandia cordigera. In this way the synonymy of the plant hasbeen cleared up, and we have Gerome and to thank for doing it. For only byseeing such variation produced upon the sameindividual would any one have the slighte
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. e that identification from description only,and after seeing the leaf of A. triloba sent tohim from Kew finds he was quite wrong in sup-posing it to be the same as Polyscias pinnata,and that Aralia triloba is identical with Her-rania palmata and with juvenile stages of Hernandia cordigera. In this way the synonymy of the plant hasbeen cleared up, and we have Gerome and to thank for doing it. For only byseeing such variation produced upon the sameindividual would any one have the slightest con-ception that leaves differing so greatly in size,form and venation could by any possibility be-long to the same species. According to the account given by Gerome, itappears that the leaves vary as the plant de-velops more or less in the following young plants, and possibly also on youngbranches of older plants, the leaves are first7-lobed, then 5-lobed, then 3-lobed ; as the plantor branches approach the flowering stage theleaves become entire, and at first of an elongated. Fig. 136.—clematis aruandii : flowers white. have come from Sydney, is preserved in theKew Herbarium. All the species of Herrania,however, are natives of tropical America, andquite unlike the plant now under consideration. In 1896 Mr. Bull again introduced the plant,this time from New Caledonia, its nativecountry. But apparently he did not rememberor did not recognise that it was the same planthe had previously named Herrania palmata, forhe exhibited it at the Royal HorticulturalSocietys meeting on September 8, 1896, underthe name of Aralia triloba, but it appears notto have been distributed until about 1905. In 1896 also a plant of Hernandia cordigerawas introduced from New Caledonia into theMuseum Garden at Paris. After being culti-vated for some years, this plant developed leavesof a different form, and an account of the re-markable variation of its foliage will be foundin the Bulletin
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