^ 
BOTAKICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUif. 181 
w 
The leaflets being verj' apt to drop off in drying, have been described 
by G. Don as simple leaves, 
2. P, Papnana^ Seem. — Gastonia Pa^nanay Miq. Ann. Lugd. Bat. 
i. 5. New Guinea (Zippeiius). Has generally 8 styles, but some- 
times 12 by excess. 
3. P. acuminata^ Seem. mss. — TIedera acuminata^ "Wight, Icon. t. 
T 
1062. Eupteron acuminatum^ Miq. in Bonplandia, 1856^ p. 139; Fl. 
Ned. Ind. i. pars i. p. 762. — Nilgherries (Wight), Ceylon (Thwaites ! 
Ceylon Plants, n. 4.), 
Wight thinks Hedera Jackiana^ Don, may possibly be identical 
with Polyscias acuminata^ but that species belongs to Arthrophyllum ; 
and Thwaites refers Hedera parasitica^ Don, to P. acuminata as a 
synonym, but from Don's authentic specimen it prov^es to be a species 
Q>i Pentapanax {P, parauticu7n, Seem.). 
** Flores sessiles, 
4. P. nodosa. Seem. mss. — Aralia nodosa^ Blum. Bijdr. p. 873. 
Paratropia nodosa^ De Caud. Prod. iv. p. 265. Hedera nodosa^ Hassle. 
Tijdr. Nat. Gesch. x. p. 131. Aralia iimlraculiferay Koxb. FL Ind. ii, 
108. Papaja sylvestris, Eumph. Amb. i. p. 149. t. 53, fig. 1. Eupte- 
ron nodosum^ Miq. in Bonplandia, 1856, p. 139. — Java and Moluccas 
(Blume), Philippine Islands (Cuming! n. 504 et 1053 in Mus. Brit.)- 
According to Hoxburgh about twelve feet, according to Blume thirty 
feet high. Eumphius's figure is referred by De CandoUe to Bergera 
Kcenigiiy a plant which has a veiy different inflorescence, whilst 
Roxburgh and Miquel referred it to this species. By some misprint, 
however, the latter author quoted plate 13, which represents a Palm. 
OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT 
OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By J. J. Bennett, Esq., F.R.S. 
The principal business of the department during the year 1864 has 
consisted 
In the naming, arranging, and laying into the General Herbarium 
of a large collection of plants of New Holland, formed by Dr. Ferdi- 
nand Mueller; of a collection of plants of New Caledonia, formed by 
