ALAKASTRA PIIILIPIMNENSTA, U. 211 
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length, respectively; style 1.5 mm long, stigma orbicular-obovate, 1.4-1.0 
mm long, 1.3-1.5 mm wide, obscurely 2-lobed; capsule 4.2-5.4 cm long, 
its stalk 9-14 mm long, with numerous .light-brown ellipsoidal minutely 
punctate seeds 0.8 mm long and 0.3 mm wide; coma whitish, 7-8 nnu 
■ long; peduncles, ovary, and the outer side of the calyx-lobes slightly and 
minutely pubescent. 
Stems somewhat woody, reddish, terete, branched, 40-50 cm high, 4-5 
mm in diameter near the base, minutely and obscurely striate, nniforndy 
pubescent with short appressed whitish hairs; leaves opposite or near 
the apox nlternate, the lamina liuear or very narrowly lanceolate or 
elliptical, 8-32 mm long, 1-5 mm (mostly 2 lum) wide, the margins 
distantly serrate, denticulate, or merely sinuate, roundenl or toothed nt 
the apex, at the base gradually narrowed into a sleiider margined petiole 
1.5-r> mm lung, venation obscure except tbe midrib, but when perceptible 
usually 2 veins on each side of tbe midrib; both surfaces of tbr leaf 
slightly pubescent or glabrescent. 
Typ^ collectod on damp soil at an elevation of 2,040 m at Pauai, Province 
of Ben.met, Luzon, by E. D. Merrill, no. ',l-',>,, in flower and frnit, November S, 
1905. Also represented by Merrill i7.7.S, base of clifTs at an elevation of UuO nu 
Ba.mio to Ambuklao, also in Benguet, flowers and fruit, Oetober 24, litOo. 
Obviously very elosely related to the preeeding, but sufllciently distmguisbed by 
its babit, narrower leaves, long<M- petioles, smaller flowers and seeds, and other 
obaraeters. 
AlJALIACILl^. 
SCHEFFLERA Forst. 
Schefflera williamsii sp. nov. 
Arbuseula; floribas composito-imibellntls, uinbellis 8- vel 9-floris, 7- 
meris, foliis alternis, digitatis, glabris, 8- vel 9-foliolatis, oblique angus- 
toipo ollipticis, abnipte aeuniiuatis. 
Inflorescence temiiual, arising as two diverging branches, each bearing 
throe lateral racemod nnd^els and three terminal subumbellately ar- 
ranged nmbels, total length of inflorescence 7-9 cm, peduncles of indi- 
vidual m^heh 12-14 mm, pedicels in the mostly 8- or 9-flowered umbels 
7-8 3 mm long, slender; calyx about 2.5 mm long, triangular, truncate 
at the apex, about 4 mm wide, not articulated with the pedicels; petals 
7 valvate, apparently falling together, more or less connate especially 
at the apex, 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, oblong-ovate, bluntly acuminate 
at tbe apex, sessile on the margin of the calyx-tube ; stamens 7, their 
filaments 1.7 mm long and 1.2 mm wide; ovary extending 1.3 mm 
beyond the ealvx, 7-celled, few-ovuled, hemispherical, rounded into the 
style, which is'l.i mm long, 1.6 mm wide at the base, ridged but not 
divided, truncate at the apex. _ ' 
A woody shrub, growing <m tree-trunks, with stems 1.2-1.0 m Ipng 
