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SCHEFFLERA Foist. 



Schefflera luzoniensis Merrill s]>. nov. S Euschefflera, Heptapleurum. 



A scandent shrub, quite glabrous except the deciduously pubesceni 

 inflorescence, with 5-foliolate leaves, the leaflets caudate-acuminate, and 

 terminal panicle branched from the base, the branches ascending, elon- 

 gated, the flowers disposed in 3 to 5 flowered peduncled umbels. Branches 

 light gray, glabrous. Petioles (> to s cm. long, glabrous, slender; leaflets 

 linn, shining, elliptical-lanceolate to narrowly ohovate-lancoolate. abruptly 

 long caudate-acuminate, the base acute. I to (i cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide; 

 primary nerves (i to 7 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, the 

 secondary nerves and reticulations nearly as evident, anastomosing and 

 forming a marginal nerve, the leaf margin entire, recurved; petiolules 

 1.5 to '2 cm. long - . Panicles 1(1 cm. long or less, branched from the base, 

 the branches about 8 cm. long, more or less flocculose pubescent, becoming 

 subglabrous, the bracts and bracteoles very caducous, the branchlets 

 racemosely disposed, 5 to to mm. long, each bearing 3 to 5 umbellately 

 disposed flowers, the pedicels •'> to 4 mm. long. Calyx about L.5 mm. 

 long, truncate 1 . Petals 5, oblong-ovate, 2 mm. long, acute, apex inflexed, 

 free, falling separately. Stamens 5 ; filaments 2 mm. long; anthers 

 broadly elliptical-ovate, about 0.8 nun. long. Ovary 5-celled; style 0. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Banahao (928 Whitford) October 1'.), 1904. 



Seandent on trees ill forests at about 1,100 in. 



Schefflera microphylla Merrill sp. nov. S Euschefflera, Heptapleurum. 



Subscandent, 2 to .'5 m. high ; glabrous throughout, with alternate, long 

 petiolate. digitately 5 to 8-foliolate leaves, the leaflets lanceolate, acum- 

 inate, .") cm. long or less, the flowers umbellately disposed in lax 

 terminal panicles. Branches slender, terete, light gray or brownish. 

 Petioles slender. 4 to 5 cm. long; leaflets entire, linn, shining. 3.5 

 to 5 em. long. 1 to (i mm. wide, gradually narrowed above to the 

 long caudate-acuminate apex, the base acute; nerves \\'\\\ not prominent; 

 petiolules 5 to S mm. long. Panicles I'ow branched from the base, (i 

 to S em. long, the bracts and bracteoles wanting or very caducous, 

 glabrous; branchlets spreading, few, slender. 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the 

 flowers in I to (> flowered umbels at the ends of the branchlets, the pedicels 

 I to li mm. long. Calyx truncate or obscurely toothed. 1.5 mm. long or 

 less. Petals 5. triangular-ovate, acute. L.5 mm. long, adherent by their 

 apices and falling as a whole. Stamens;*); filaments about l mm. long; 

 anthers broadly ovate, nearly 1 nun. long. Ovary 5-celled; style not 

 developed. Fruit elliptical-ovoid, glabrous, about 5 mm. long. 5-ridged. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4805 Merrill) November, 1906. A 

 Bubscandent shrub growing on rotten trunks and mossy trees in the wet forest 

 at about 2,200 in., eharaelerized by its small lanceolate leaflets. 



