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2-keeled, about 3 cm long, clasping the stem. Leaflets pale when 
dry, of the same color on both surfaces, somewhat shining, oblong, 
15 to 20 em long, 5.5 to 6.5 em wide, narrowed to the acute base 
and to the slender, sharply subcaudate-acuminate apex, char- 
taceous, entire; primary lateral nerves about 15 on each side of 
the midrib, prominent, spreading, anastomosing, the secondary 
nerves and reticulations distinct; petiolules 3 to 5 cm long. 
Flowers small, umbellate, the umbels racemosely arranged, the 
racemes about 4, fascicled at the tips of the branchlets, the rachis 
not at all elongated between the racemes, the inflorescence sub- 
tended by several lanceolate, coriaceous, acuminate, furfuraceous 
bracts about 4 cm in length, the inflorescence rather uniformly 
pale-furfuraceous, the branches up to 25 cm in length. Umbels 
very numerous, globose, dense, in mature bud up to 10 mm in 
diameter, mostly 15- to 20-flowered, their peduncles about 6 mm 
long, each subtended by a narrowly lanceolate, acuminate bract 
about 1 cm in length. Flowers 5-merous, their pedicels about 
2mm long. Calyx minutely pubescent, about 1.5 mm in diam- 
eter, obscurely 5-toothed. Petals 5, ovate, 2mm long, 1 mm wide, 
acute, with three prominent brownish nerves; filaments 1.2 mm 
long; anthers broadly elliptic, 1 mm long. Ovary 5-celled. 
BASILAN, Comalarang, Bur. Sci. 16108 Reillo, August 31, 1912, in forests, 
flowers yellow. 
A species well characterized by its slenderly and acutely acuminate, 
entire leaflets, its fascicled primary branches of the inflorescence, and its 
dense, globose umbels of small 5-merous flowers. In aspect it somewhat 
resembles Schefflera demesae Merr. of Mindanao, but that species has 
its flowers in fascicles, not in umbels. 
SCHEFFLERA GLABRA sp. nov. § Euschefflera, Heptapleurum. 
Arbor glaberrima, circiter 10 m alta; foliis palmatim 5-folio- 
latis, foliolis coriaceis, integris, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, us- 
que ad 8 cm longis, subcaudato-acuminatis, basi rotundatis, nervis 
utrinque 7 ad 11, subdistinctis; paniculis terminalibus, ramis 
primariis racemose dispositis, usque ad 10 cm longis; fructibus 
4-locellatis, subglobosis, circiter 3 mm diametro, umbellatim dis- 
positis, umbellis in ramis primariis racemose dispositis, pauci- 
floris, longe pedunculatis. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branches terete, pale 
grayish-brown when dry, wrinkled, 3 to 4 mm in diameter. 
Leaves palmately 5-foliolate, the petioles about 4 cm long, base 
inflated and clasping the stems; leaflets coriaceous, shining, 
oblong to oblong-ovate, entire, 4 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, 
base rounded, apex slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, the acumen 
