116 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
Miquel wished to confine the genus Agalma to those species which have truly racemose flowers, repre- 
sented typically by 4. rugosum (Aralia rugosa, Blume), and it is only in this particular that his Agalma 
differs from his Paratropia. Singular as is the inflorescence in A. rugosum, simillimum, and racemosum, 
few botanists would follow him in thinking that character sufficient to found a genus upon. I have there- 
fore sought for better limits, and, adopting Miquel's two Agalme as the type, added all the species which 
agreed generically with them. Most of their congeners had been referred to Paratropia, even by Miquel 
himself, where, on account of their long style, they were quite misplaced. De Candolle established Para- 
tropia for plants with sessile stigmas, and three out of the four species he referred to it have sessile stigmas, 
the fourth being a species of Polyscias, and having long styles. Now Paratropia, restricted to the 
species with sessile stigmas, is identical with Heptapleu*wm of Gertner; and as the latter was established 
as early as 1791, that name, quite as appropriate as Paratropia, claims the right of priority by thirty- 
nine years. Agalma and Heptapleurum have certain features in common, but they differ in several essential 
points, viz. :— 
Agalma. Stylus 1, elongatus.— Arbores plerumque terrestres, floribus viridiusculis. 
Heptapleurum. Stigmata ovario immersa, punctiformia.—A rbuscule epiphyte, floribus viridiusculis 
v. sepe purpureis v. sanguineis. 
1. A. Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) Seem.; glabra; foliis digitatim 3-5- rarissime 1-foliolatis, foliolis 
obovato-oblongis obtusis in petiolum attenuatis integerrimis penninerviis, nervis horizontaliter diva- 
ricatis; floribus in umbellas pauci-(3-7-)floras dispositis; ovario 5-loculari.— Viti Levu (Greffe! 
n. 38, in Herb. Melbourne). 
This is one of the plants kindly placed at my disposal by Dr. F. Müller. There is only a single indif- 
ferent specimen ; better specimens will probably have more than the stated number of leaflets and flowers. . 
Leaflets underneath looking like those of certain Garcinias, on account of the horizontally divaricate veins. 
Petiolules 1-1} inch long; blade 3-4 inches long, 15-2 inches broad. 
IV. Schefflera, Forst. Gen. p. et t. 23. Pedicelli inarticulati. Flores ecalyculati, polygami. 
Calyx tubo obconico, limbo minute 5-dentato. Petala 5, ovato-triangularia, 1-nervia, eestivatione 
valvata. Stamina 5; anther oblong. Ovarium 5-10-loculare, loculis l-ovulatis. Styli 5-10, 
basi coadunati, distincti. Drupa baccata, globosa, 5-10-pyrena. Albumen zquabile——Arbores vel 
frutices inermes, glabre; foliis alternis stipulatis digitatim 7-9-foliolatis; foliolis longe petiolulatis 
oblongis v. ellipticis serrulatis, umbellis racemoso-paniculatis.—Aralié sp. auct. 
Schelera (not Schefflera, as some authors incorrectly write) contains two species, one inhabiting New 
Zealand, and having 8-10 styles; the other Viti, and having five styles only. 
1. S. Vitiensis, Seem. in Journ. of Bot. 1865, p. 176; arborescens; foliolis 7-9 petiolulatis 
cuneato-oblongis subter acuminatis subserratis, lateralibus parvis; umbellis confertis pedunculatis in 
racemum compositum magnum paniculeformem digestis; stylis pyrenisque 5.—Aralia ( Schefflera) 
Vitiensis, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 715, t. 89.—Ovalau (Seemann! n. 203; Harvey! U. S. Expl. 
Exped.). 
V. Nesopanax, (gen. nov.) Seem. Journ. of Bot. 1864, p. 249. Pedicelli inarticulati. Flores 
ecalyculati. Calyx tubo obconico, cum ovario connato; limbo supero, obsolete 5-dentato. Petala 
5, ovato-triangularia, disci epigyni margini inserta, libera, :estivatione valvata. Stamina indefinita, 
cum petalis inserta, pluriserialia; filamenta brevia; anther oblonge. Ovarium inferum, 5-7- 
11. N. Samoense, Seem.—Panax Samoense, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 717.—Samoan Islands (U. S. 
Expl. Exped. !). 
** Folia simplicia. 
12. N. cochleatum, Miq. in Bonplandia, 1856, p. 139, et Fl. Ned. Ind. l. c. p. 766.—Aralia cochleata 
Lam. Diet. vol. i. p. 224. Panaz cochleatum, DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 255. Panar scutellarioides, Reinw. in 
Blume, Bijdr. p. 888. Panas conchifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 77. Scutellaria prima, Rumph. Amb. 
vol. iv. p. 75. t. 31.—Indian Archipelago. 
Species excluse. 
N. (?) pinnatum, Miq. = Arthrophyllum, sp. i 
N. tricochleatum, Miq. = Polyscias pinnata, Forst. 
