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palmately 5-foliolate, their petioles inflated at the base, about 
5 em long. Leaflets oblong to elliptic-oblong, chartaceous, shin- 
ing, 15 to 24 cm long, 7.5 to 9.5 cm wide, entire, the apex shortly 
acuminate, the base rounded; lateral nerves slender, about 25 
on each side of the midrib, the reticulations distinct; petiolule of 
the central leaflet 7 cm long, of the next two inner leaflets 2.5 
to 3 cm long, of the outer leaflets about 1 cm long. Inflorescence 
terminal, peduncled, the peduncle up to 15 cm long, usually with 
two distant, ovate bracts, the lower one 5 mm long, the upper 
one twice as long. Branches of the inflorescence subumbellately 
disposed near the apex of the peduncles, usually 6, slender, about 
30 cm long, many-flowered. Flowers racemosely disposed, usually 
fascicled at the nodes, few in each fascicle, pale-green, their pedi- 
cels about 6 mm long. Calyx short, truncate, somewhat disk-like 
Petals 5, oblong-ovate or ovate, acute, appendaged at the apex 
inside, 3 mm long, 3-nerved. Filaments 2 mm long; anthers 
broad, about 1.3mm long. Fruit not seen. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Siay River, For. Bur. 18896 Fox- 
worthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 29, 1912, on river banks, known to the 
Moros as canonucan. 
Apparently a very distinct species, characterized by being quite glabrous; 
by its peduncled inflorescence, with its elongated subumbellately disposed 
primary branches; and its 5-foliolate, entire, ample leaves with their very 
unequal petiolules. 
SCHEFFLERA CAUDATIFOLIA sp. nov. § Euschefflera. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 
palmatim 5-foliolatis, foliolis subcoriaceis, nitidis, oblongis ad 
oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, utrinque angustatis, 
basi acutis, apice longe tenuiter caudato-acuminatis; floribus 
racemosis, 5-meris, racemis subterminalis, solitariis vel binis, 
tenuibus, usque ad 13 cm longis. 
A scandent shrub, quite glabrous, the branches and branchlets 
terete, when dry light-gray, wrinkled. Leaves scattered, pal- 
mately 5-foliolate, their petioles 4 to 8 cm long, inflated at the 
base; leaflets oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 
3.4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the 
slenderly caudate-acuminate apex, entire, the acumen straight 
or falcate, up to 2 cm long, the upper surface subolivaceous, 
shining, the lower shining, paler than the upper; lateral nerves 
5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, rather distinct, anastomosing ; 
petiolules 1 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, of one or two 
rather slender racemes, the racemes up to 138 cm long. Flowers 
5-merous, solitary, in pairs, or somewhat fascicled, their pedicels 
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