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Stylus I; -stigma 5-6-lobatum. Ovarium 5-6-loculare, loculis 1- 
ovulatis. Drupa oblonga, exsucca, 5-6-angulata, 5—6-pyrena. Al- 
bumen æquabile. — Arbores inermes Asie tropic, foliis digitatim 
foliolatis, foliolis integerrimis v. dentatis, floribus racemosis v. umbel- 
atis in panieulas dispositis, petalis viridiusculis.—4ga/ma, Mig. in 
Bonplandia, 1856, p. 138; Fl. Ned. Ind. i. pars i. p. 752, t. 11 et 
12.— Hedere, Paratropie, sp. auct. 
Miquel wished to confine the genus .4galma to those species 
which have truly racemose flowers, represented typically by 4. rugosum 
(Aralia rugosa, Blum.), and it is only in this particular that his Agalma 
differs from his Paratropia. Singular as is the inflorescence in 4. 
rugosum, simillimum, and racemosum, few botanists would follow him 
in thinking that character sufficient to found a genus upon. I have 
therefore sought for better limits, and, adopting Miquel's two Agalmas 
as the type, added all that agreed generically with them. Most of 
their congeners had been referred to Paratropia, even by Miquel him- 
self, where, on account of their long style, they were quite misplaced. 
De Candolle established that genus 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 Heptapleurum of Gartner; 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. -dgalma and Heptapleurum 
have certain features in common, but they differ in several essential 
points, viz. :— 
Agalma. Stylus 1, elongatus.—Arbores plerumque terrestres, flo- 
ribus viridiusculis. 
Heptapleurum. Stigmata ovario immersa, punctiformia. —Arbus- 
cule epiphyte, floribus viridiusculis v. ssepe purpureis v. sanguineis. 
* Flores racemosi. (Agalma, Mig.) 
l. A. rugosum, Miq. in Bonplandia, 1856, p. 138; Fl. Nederl. 
Ind. i. pars i. p. 752, t. 11.—Aralia rugosa, Blum. Bijdr. p. 871. 
Polyscias rugosa, Reinw. Herb. Hedera rugosa, De Cand. Prodr. iv. 
p. 265. Hedera squarrosa, Jungh. in Tijdrsch. Nat. Geschied. vii. 
p. 301; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 432. Hedera heptaphylla, Jungh. Itin.— 
Java, 5-8000 feet above the sea (Horsfield! in Herb. Mus. Brit. ; 
Lobb! in Herb. Hook.; Junghuhn ; Blume). 
