Abstract:

 The present paper is a result of taxonomic study of Chinese Araliaceous plants. It

contains 56 species 25 varieties and 8 forms ascribed to 10 genera of the family, of which

35 species, 14 varieties and 5 forms are described as new.  Besides, 7 new sections and

5 subsections are proposed and 2 new combinations made, whereas 8 species and 3 varie-

ties previously known to botanists as distinct are here reduced to synonyms.  Descriptions

of flowers and fruits from complete flowering and fruiting specimens are added as sup-

plements to 8 previously known species.  Discussions on systems of the subdivisions in

the genera Schefflera, Dendropanax and Aralia are presented.  Most of the type specimens

are preserved in the Herbarium of Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Peking, and a

few in the Herbaria of South China instituta of Botany, Yunnan  Institute  of Botany,

Nanking Institute of Botany, Northwestern Institute of Soil-water Conservation, Biology

and Pedology, Academia Sinica, and the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy

of Medical Sciences.