Tas. 6238. . 
HEPTAPLEURUM poryzorrrom. 
Native of Java. 
Nat. Ord. ARALIACE%.—Series PANACEX. 
Genus HEPTAPLEURUM, Gertn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i., p. 942). 
HEPTAPLEURUM polybotryum ; subscandens, fere glaberrimum, caule elato gracili 
simpliciusculo verrucoso, foliis gracile petiolatis digitatis, foliolis 5-7 petio- 
lulatis oblongo-ellipticis -ovatis v, -obovatis caudato-acuminatis integerrimis 
basi cuneatis v. rotundatis, petiolo gracili basin versus verrucoso, petiolulis 
basi incrassatis apice subarticulatis, stipula axillari, racemis axillaribus et ad 
apicem caulis subverticillatim confertis elongatis gracilibus, pedunculis 
gracilibus, umbellulis 8-16-floris, floribus parvis 5-andris, calycis hemi- 
spherici limbos obsoletos, petalis ovatis calyptratim cohwrentibus, filamentis 
elongatis, antheris parvis didymis, stigmatibus 5 papilleformibus. 
HEPTAPLEURUM polybotryum, Seem. Journ. Bot., vol. iii., p. 78. 
Paratropia polybotrya, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat., vol. i., pars. i., p. 755. 
P. TEsyMANNIANA, Hort. 
? SCIODAPHYLLUM subavene, Blume Bijd., p. 876. 
A very handsome, free-growing plant, of the large tropical 
family of which the common Ivy is one of the few northern 
representatives. The genus to which it belongs, long and 
well known under the name of Paratropia (a name which 
must give way to the prior one of Heptapleurum), comprises 
upwards of sixty species, all natives of the Old World, some 
of which are amongst the most common and handsome trees 
of the Indian forests, being remarkable for the density of 
their evergreen foliage. 
H. polybotryum is a native of the mountain forests of 
Java, where it attains the elevation of four thousand three 
hundred feet, and whence specimens from various collectors are 
preserved in the Kew Herbarium. It has been long incultivation 
at Kew, having been received in 1860from the late Dr. Miquel, 
at that time Professor of Botany, and in charge of the Botanic 
Gardens of Utrecht. It flowers in the winter months, and is 
probably common in Continental gardens, as 1t appears im 
Linden’s catalogue under the name of Paratropia Teysman- 
niana, the provisional name under which it was received at 
Kew from Dr. Miquel. 
June lst 1876, 
