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2332 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. ue 
stigma which apparently remains upon the fruit, normally 
with 4 pendant ovules. 
Type specimen number 13546 A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 
1912. | 
Discovered in wet earth mixed with small stones near a | 
stream of a Dipterocarpaceae forested flat at 750 feet above | 
sea level. “Eyangnoc'” is the Monobo name. 
Nearer to Boerlagiodendron serratifolium Elm. than to my 
Boerlagiodendron sibuyanense. 
Schefflera multiramosa Elm. n. sp. 
A lofty tree climber or rather epiphytic upon them; 
branches few, widely spreading, gray, 5 cm thick, terete, 
the leaf bearing ends suberect. Petiole 3 dm long, alter- 
nating, subterete, stout, glabrous, thickened and much 
roughened at the base which is usually provided with a 
thick and rigid interaxillary sheath or braet, similarly 
roughened at the distal end; leaves 9 more or less, 
radially or horizontally spreading, entirely glabrous; blades 
conduplicate on the dark green shining upper side, paler 
and duller or subglaucous beneath, apices rather abruptly 
terminating into an acuminate much recurved point, base 
rounded, the basal blades smaller, the larger ones 2.5 dm 
long, nearly 9 em wide at or above the middle, ob!ong, 
entire though the margins are irregularly rugose except to- 
ward the base, blackish brown when dry; petiolules 4 to 6 
cm long, fluted along the upper side, black when dry, stout, 
thickened and suberect at both ends; midrib heavy on both 
sides, rusty brown; lateral nerves finely pinnate, subparallel, 
18 pairs in the larger blades and with secondary ones 
intervening, reticulations obsolete. Inflorescence terminal, com- 
posed of several spikes 3 to 5 dm long, ascendingly spread- 
ing; rachis green and glabrous, stout, subtended by rigid bracts 
or merely expanded at the base, coarsely light brown lenticel- 
led; fruit bearing branches quite numerous, solitary or in 
subwhorls, scattered from near the base, occasionally few re- 
branched, about 3 cm long, greenish, glabrous, with light 
brown scars; pedicels 1 to 3 mm long, alternatingly scat- 
