a oe 
20, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 415 
A species not closely allied to any previously known Phil- 
ippine form, well characterized by its lanceolate, caudate-acu- 
minate, long-petiolulate, comparatively small, entire leaves and 
by its ample inflorescences, the spreading primary branches 
being racemosely arranged along the elongated axis. 
SCHEFFLERA HALCONENSIS sp. nov. § Heptapleurum. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis lenticellatis, circiter 5 mm diametro; 
foliis 5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, rigidis, 
atro-olivaceis, subtus pallidioribus, integris, 8 ad 15 cm longis, 
acute acuminatis, basi acutis, plerumque plus minusve inaequi- 
lateralibus, brevissime petiolulatis, nervis utrinque 13 ad 15, 
tenuibus, admodum subobsoletis; inflorescentiis breviter pedun- 
culatis, ramis primariis plerumque 3, elongatis, circiter 20 cm 
longis, deorsum nudis, floribus umbellatis, umbellis paucis, 5- ad 
7-floris, racemose dispositis; fructibus 6-locellatis, late ovoideis, 
5 mm longis, leviter sulcatis. 
A glabrous shrub, the branches terete, about 5 mm in diameter, 
lenticellate. Leaves 5-foliolate, their petioles 4 to 7 cm long, 
rather stout; leaflets oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, rigid, the upper 
surface dark olivaceous when dry, the lower surface much paler, 
slightly shining, 8 to 15 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, the apex slightly 
acuminate, base acute, margins entire; lateral nerves very 
slender, 18 to 15 on each side of the midrib, often scarcely 
visible, the reticulations obsolete; petiolules 3 to 8 mm long. 
Inflorescences shortly peduncled, usually bearing three primary 
elongated branches about 20 cm in length, these floriferous only 
in the upper one-half, the umbels racemosely arranged, 5- to 7- 
flowered, the peduncles about 1 cm long, the pedicels 3 to 5 mm 
long. Fruits orange-red, broadly ovoid, 6-celled, about 5 mm 
long, slightly sulcate. 
MINDoRO, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5696, November, 1906. In 
damp primary forests at an altitude of about 900 meters. 
A species well characterized by its brittle, obscurely nerved 
leaflets and its shortly peduncled inflorescences bearing usually 
three elongated primary branches which bear a few racemosely 
disposed umbels in the upper part. The material was collected 
from an erect shrub about 1 m high; in age the plant doubtless 
becomes more or less scandent. 
SCHEFFLERA CINNAMOMEA sp. nov. § Cephaloschefflera. 
Arbor erecta (vel scandens?), inflorescentiis junioribus dense 
furfurdceis; foliis circiter 12-foliolatis, longissime petiolatis, 
petiolo glabro, circiter 70 cm longo, foliolis oblongis ad oblongo- 
1849474 
