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arranged on the primary branches, their peduncles 4 to 5 mm 
long. Calyx obovoid, truncate, about 1.2 mm long, petals oblong 
ovate, acute, 2.6 mm long, ovary 5-celled. 
MINDANAO, Lanao District, on the Lanao—Cotabato trail, For. 
Bur. 25240 Alvarez, March 24, 1916, altitude 1,100 meters. 
This species is manifestly allied to Schefflera caudatifolia Merr., 
from which it differs especially in its flowers being arranged 
in umbels rather than in fascicles; in its much shorter rachis 
and much longer primary branches; while the primary nerves 
_ of the leaves are spreading rather than ascending. 
SCHEFFLERA GLOBOSA sp. nov. § Fuscheffiera, Heptapleurwm. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis et infructescentiis stellato-tomen- 
tosis, indumento brunneo, ramis incrassatis; foliis 6-foliolatis, 
longissime petiolatis, foliolis oblongis, firmiter chartaceis, inte- 
gris, usque ad 44 cm longis, apice tenuiter acuminatis; inflores- 
centiis terminalibus, rhachibus leviter productis, ramis primariis ~ 
3 ad 5, usque ad 20 cm longis, racemose dispositis; fructibus 
globosis, esulcatis, 5-locellatis, 5 mm diametro, umbellulis race- 
mose dispositis, breviter pedunculatis, fructibus confertis brevis- 
sime pedicellatis. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the young branchlets, bracts, 
and infructescences, which are brown stellate-tomentose, the 
ultimate branches up to 1 cm in diameter. Leaves palmately 
6-foliolate, their petioles inflated and clasping at the base, stout, 
30 to 35 cm long; leaflets oblong, firmly chartaceous, entire, gla- 
brous, shiny, 22 to 44 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, the base rounded 
to subacute, the apex slenderly acuminate; lateral nerves 15 to 
20 on each side of the midrib, distinct as are the reticulations, 
anastomosing, petiolules 5 to11cmlong. Inflorescence terminal, 
the rachis somewhat produced, the primary branches 3 to 5, 16 
to 20 cm long, racemosely disposed, each subtended by an oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, subcoriaceous bract about 3 cm in length. 
Fruits globose, about 5 mm in diameter, very slightly furfura- 
ceous, not sulcate, 5-celled, terminated by the 5 nearly sessile 
stigmas, arranged in short-peduncled, scattered umbels, 9 to 10 
fruits crowded on each umbel, their pedicels 1 to 2 mm long, the 
peduncles 2 to 7 mm long, the pedicels and peduncles with the 
same type of indumentum as the rachis. 
PANAY, Capiz Province, Jamindan, Bur. Sci. 30897 Ramos & 
Edafio, May 21, 1918, on tree trunks in forests along streams. 
This species in vegetative characters strongly resembles Schef- 
flera digitata (Blanco) Merr. (S. machranta Merr.), but differs 
radically in its very short pedicels and 5-celled fruits. The 
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