"lAvaver 8, 1914] New ARALIACEAE FROM MINDANAO 2327 
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Boerlagiodendron humilis Elm. n. sp. 
Strictly erect but small shrubs; stem 1 to 1.5 m high, 
terete, solitary or more than one from the base, 2.5 cm 
thick; bark yellowish, rather smooth; wood sappy white, quite 
hard, odorless and tasteless. Leaves chiefly at the top, di- 
jf varicately spreading, alternate, not numerous; petiole terete, 
rf 15 to 25 em long, glabrate or nearly so, base provided with 
; peculiar stipular ring-like appendages and interaxillary bracts; 
blade palmately 5-lobed, about 2 dm wide, the base with a broad 
sinus, sinuses between the lobes rounded and relatively broad, 
lobes divided to within 4 to 5 cm from the base, the ter- 
minal or longer lobe 15 cm long, the basal pair one half 
as long, margins serrately apiculate or entire toward the base 
of the lobes, apex rounded, occasionally terminated by an 
acute point, the basal pair of lobes usually with a large 
tooth or lobule on its lower edge, the average lobes 5.5 em 
wide above the middle; veins 5, stout, especially raised upon 
the upper side; nerves 5 to 8 in the lobular portion, com- 
paratively inconspicuous, ascendingly curved, cross bars ob- 
scure. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose, 5 cm wide, sub- 
tended by a few simple foliaceous bracts; peduncle 2 to 3 
em long, very thick, more or less imbricated with brown 
furfuraceous oblong bracts which are usually greenish though 
‘often purplish tipped; branches umbellately spreading, 5 cm 
long, more or less flattened and striate, brown pulver- 
ulent, rebranched at about the middle, provided with subtending 
bracts; ultimate branches quite similar in vestiture and shape, 
subtended by smaller bracts, usually 3-clustered; pedicels 1 
to 2 mm long, gradually thickened toward the distal end, 
at the base surrounded by a brown ciliated bract, ellipsoid, 
nearly 2 mm long, truncate at apex. Dry fruit 6 mm long 
by 4 mm thick across the middle, strongly 4-angled, smooth 
and glabrous, bearing the 4 contiguous roughened stigmas; 
seeds also 4 and as long as the fruit itself though only one half 
as wide, stone-like, the ventral edge nearly straight, the back 
curved and obscurely ridged, the two sides coarsely rugose, 
when ripe and fresh bright yellow and. ellipsoid. 
Type specimen number 10860, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
