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entire, base rounded to obtuse, apex slenderly caudate-acumi- 
nate ; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, anastomos- 
ing, distinct, as are the reticulations; petiolules 6 to 8 cm long. 
Branches of the inflorescence 40 to 45 cm long, stout, glabrous, 
bearing numerous, racemosely arranged, dense, globose, glabrous 
heads, which in young fruit are from 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, 
their peduncles 1 to 1.5 em long. Young fruits 5-sulcate, 3 to 4 
mm long, 5-celled. 
PANAY, Capiz Province, Mount Madiaas, Bur, Sci. 30736, 
Ramos & Edafio, May 12, 1918, in the mossy forest. 
This species resembles Schefflera catanduanensis, but has longer 
inflorescence branches and is furthermore very easily distin- 
guished by its peduncled heads. 
BOERLAGIODENDRON Harms 
BOERLAGIODENDRON CAUDATUM sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus; foliis longe petiolatis, palmatim 7- 
ad 9-foliolatis, foliolis nitidis, lanceolatis, valde inaequalibus, 10 
ad 23 cm longis, tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, basi decurrento- 
acuminatis, majoribus plerumque utrinque 1- vel 2-lobatis, mar- 
gine irregulariter perspicue dentatis ; petiolo circiter 40 cm longo, 
basi cristis pectinatis 2 vel 3 instructis, dentibus deflexis; inflo- 
rescentiis sessilibus, circiter 15 cm diametro, radiis primariis 
circiter 25; capitulis ¢ circiter 1 cm diametro, floribus confertis 
brevissime pedicellatis, 4-meris. 
An erect shrub, about 2 m high, the leaf-bearing part of the 
stem at least 1 cm in diameter. Leaves long-petioled, palmately 
7- to 9-foliolate; leaflets subcoriaceous, olivaceous and shining 
when dry, lanceolate, very unequal in size, 10 to 23 cm long, 
slenderly caudate-acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, the 
larger ones usually deeply lobed, the lobes 1 or 2, rarely 3, ex- 
tending nearly to the midrib, the margins with irregular, rather 
prominent, usually incurved teeth; petiolules of the larger leaf- 
lets up to 3 cm in length, the smaller leaflets sometimes nearly 
sessile; petioles about 40 em long, 4 to 5 mm in diameter, the 
basal 1 cm supplied with 2 or 3 pectinate crests, their teeth 
defiexed up to 7 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, about 
15 cm in diameter, composed of about 25 primary branches, each 
subtended by an oblong to oblong-ovate, coriaceous bract about 
1.5 cm long, the primary branches about 4 cm long, glabrous, then 
dichotomously or trichotomously branched, the bracts subtending 
the branches oblong to oblong-lanceolate, about 1 cm long, some- 
what setose-furfuraceous, central branch 1 to 1.5 cm long, gla- 
brous, bearing a globose head of sterile flowers about 1 cm in 
