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or old flowers disk-like, 3.5 mm across, with the stigmatic 
surface glaucous; older or nearly mature fruits flatly globose, 
4 mm high and 5 mm across, the basal two thirds sur- 
rounded by the calyx, the apical portion cartilaginous and 
| glaucous, terminated by the encrusted stigma; seeds ap- 
parently 5 to 7, mango shaped, at least 2 mm wide and 
A tered, leaving large scars after falling; very young fruits 
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3 mm long. 
Type specimen number 11266, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Discovered on the summit wooded ridge of mount Burebid 
at 3500 feet altitude. Rare and was called ‘‘Butong’’ by the 
Bagobos. 
Schefflera perlucida Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic shrub, upon lofty trees; stems few, 2.5 cm 
thick, few m long, downwardly curved and finally suberect, 
occasionally branched; wood greenish or Araliaceous in odor, 
dingy white, with a large white pith, surface grayish, irregu- 
larly checked. Leaves alternatingly crowded toward the distal 
ends of the rather thick twigs, flattened or shallowly folded 
on the deeper green and very brightly shining upper surface, 
leathery, chiefly horizontal, curing much duller brown beneath, 
glabrous, apical portion gradually tapering into a very sharply 
acuminate twistingly recurved point, base broadly obtuse or 
rounded, entire margins irregularly wavy, oblong, the larger 
lamina 2 dm long by 6.5 cm wide at or just below the 
middle, the 9 to 11 leaflets radially spreading; petiole 3 dm 
long, greenish except the thickened base waich is covered 
with grayish excrescences and provided with a rigid inter- 
marginal membrane or bract, striate, flattened and shallowly 
| grooved along the upper side, «uscendingly curved at the 
| distal end; petiolules 7 cm long, also glabrous and somewhat 
Hl thickened at both ends; midrib ridged on both sides; lateral 
nerves of the larger blades about 40, counting the secondary 
ones which are almost as conspicuous from the upper side, 
pinnate, tips united into a submarginal line, reticulations 
obscure. Spikes several, subtended by bracts, terminal, as- 
cending, 2 to 3 dm long, dark green and glabrous, coarsely 
