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umbels numerous, racemosely disposed throughout the entire 
length of the branches except for the lower 5 to 6 cm. 
PALAWAN, Alfonso III, For. Bur. 21603 Agama, May 11, 1914, on rocky 
hills, altitude about 30 meters, the fruit yellow when fresh. 
The specimens were distributed under the name Schefflera palawanensis 
Merr., but the species is not at all closely allied to the form described 
under this name. It is perhaps as closely allied to the Malayan Hepta- 
pleurum subulatum Mig. as any other species but differs in very many 
characters, notably in its entirely glabrous inflorescence. 
SCHEFFLERA BANAHAENSIS sp. nov. § Fuschefflera, Heptapleurwm. 
Frutex (?) erectus, glaber; foliis longe petiolatis, palmatim 
6-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 11 cm longis, 
utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice breviter 
obtuse acuminatis, in siccitate supra atro-olivaceis, leviter nitidis, 
nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, tenuibus, obscuris, reticulis obsoletis 
vel subobsoletis; paniculis terminalibus, amplis, laxis, ramis 
patulis, primariis usque ad 17 cm longis; floribus 6-meris, um- 
bellatis, umbellis in ramis primariis racemose dispositis; fructi- 
bus in siccitate leviter sulcatis, ovoideis, circiter 3 mm longis, 
6-locellatis. f 
Apparently an erect shrub, quite glabrous, the ultimate 
branches brown, wrinkled, terete, about 5 mm in diameter. 
Leaves palmately 6-foliolate, their petioles about 12 cm long, 
dark reddish-brown when dry; leaflets oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 
8 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the 
acute base and to the shortly blunt-acuminate apex, the upper 
surface when dry black-olivaceous, shining, the lower paler, 
brownish or fuliginous; lateral nerves very slender, obscure, 8 
to 10 on each side of the midrib, the reticulations obsolete or . 
nearly so; petiolules 3 to 4 cm long. Panicles terminal, the ra- 
chis, in fruit, about 10 cm long, the primary branches racemosely 
disposed, alternate, the lower ones up to 17 cm long, the upper 
ones somewhat shorter, each subtended by a thickly coriaceous, 
ovate, deciduous, obtuse bract about 5 mm long. Flowers umbel- 
late, the umbels racemosely arranged on the primary branches, 
in fruit the peduncles 7 to 10 mm long, each bearing about 6 
fruits, the pedicels often nearly as long as the peduncles. Fruits 
ovoid, about 3 mm long, when dry obscurely longitudinally sul- 
cate, 6-celled, 6-seeded. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban (Mount Banajao), Bur. Sci. 19522 
Ramos, January 29, 1913, along streams, the fruits yellow. 
In the same group with and closely allied to Schefflera luzoniensis Merr., 
differing in its larger leaflets which are but slightly shining and not at 
all caudate-acuminate, and its glabrous, very much larger, lax panicles. 
