CDU erum 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. VII. Manila, P. I., August 8, 1914. Art. 110. 
NEW ARALIACEAE FROM MINDANAO 
by 
A. D. E. Elmer 
Aralia apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree-like shrub; stem 1.5 dm thick, nearly 7 
m high; wood soft, nearly pure white, odorless and tasteless; 
bark brown, very thinly checked, beset with sharp some- 
what flattened spines; main branches few, ascending and 
with the ultimate branches forming a flattish crown; twigs 
suberect, greenish brown, 4 cm thick, also provided. with 
brown sharp spines. Leaves opposite, divaricate, 1 to 1.5 m 
long; petiole 8 dm Jong, much thickened at the base; rachis 
strongly nodulose at the joints, reddish along the upper side; 
blade 3 to 5-compound, triangular in outline, the lower 
or larger divisions 3 dm long at least and 9 to 11-pinnate; 
stalks greenish or turning reddish brown, the rachilla sub- 
terete and pulverulent; larger leaflet 1 dm long and fully 
and half as wide, gradually becoming smaller toward the base 
though the terminal leaflet is only a trifle larger than the upper 
pair of leaflets, descending, shallowly conduplicate on the upper 
deep green and glabrous surface, glaucescently green beneath, 
submembranous, appearing more or less rugulose, nerves beneath 
soft tawny tomentose, the upper side turning blackish brown 
while drying, the nether side gray, the acute to acuminate 
