FrrBuary 15, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 585 
ARALIACEZE. 
SCHEFFLERA Forst. 
Schefflera paniculata Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent, its branches not numerous but widely scat- 
tering; stems 8 cm. thick, soft, pith large, strongly aralia- 
ceous in odor, covered with thin yellowish bark. Leaves alter- 
natingly scattered toward the ends of the twigs; petiole 1 to 2 
dm. long, strict, glabrous, subterete, at the base expanded into 
an interaxillary broadly obtuse stipule; petiolule 2 to 5 cm. 
long, much thinner, also glabrous; leaflets 6, digitate, ovate 
to elliptie or even oblongish, occasionally slightly inequilat- 
eral, apex abruptly acute, base broadly rounded or short 
obtuse, coriaceous, ascending, glabrous, deeper green and 
slightly conduplicate on the upper side, with tips recurved, 
entire, quite variable in size, the larger ones 10 cm. long 
by 6 em. wide across the middle; nerves beside the mid- 
nerve obscure on both sides, ascending, 7 to 9 on each 
side, submarginally united, the coarse reticulations barely 
visible. Panicle always terminal, 2 to 3 dm. long, nearly 
as wide across the base, glabrous; main branches divaricately 
ascending, yellowish green, alternatingly scattered or oc- 
casionally subverticellately clustered, rebranched from about 
the middle;: secondary branches comparatively short, strict, 
divaricate, more numerously clustered at the apex, not ex- 
ceeding 2 em. in length, bearing at the knob like apex a 
whorl of 3 to 5 fruits; pedicels 4 to 7 mm. long, articu- 
late at the base; fruit at first stage of maturity lemon 
yellow, ultimately becoming soft and turning to a dark wine 
color, subglobose or more tapering toward the apex, 5 mm. 
thick, in the dry state ovoidly angular, 4 to 5-ovuled but only 
1 to 3 develop to seeds; seed straw brown, plump, 3.5 
mm. long, fully 2 mm. thick, the base and apex bluntly 
pointed, the angles rounded; the undeveloped seeds much flat- 
tened, subfaleately obovate from the side view, with a conspic- 
uous browner colored embryo. 
Type specimen 9535, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province. of done Oriental doce March, 
1908. : 
