2334 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. VII, Art. 
yellowish gray  lenticelled, rather profusely branched from 
near the base; branchlets divaricate, usually unbranched, 
9 to 5 cm long, solitary or in subwhorls, pale green, 
drying dull brown; pedicels also glabrous, 2 mm long, leaving 
large scars after falling, divaricate, relatively thick; young 
fruits top shaped, the older ones flatly globose, 5 mm in 
diameter, first turning cremeus, finally dark wine red, the 
glabrous calyx enclosing two thirds of the entire fruit, stigma 
forming a circular encrusted disk; seeds about 7, erustaceous, 
2 by 3 mm in size, 
Type specimen number 14193, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
Collected from moss laden larger limbs of trees on a 
wind swept ridge leading from lake Danao toward the summit 
at 5500 feet altitude. ‘‘Tonay’’ is the Manobo name. 
A critical segregate from the preceding, but leaves aver- 
age smaller, more tapering toward the sharp point, with more 
numerous nerves and much brighter shining on the upper 
side even so in the dry specimens. 
Schefflera apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Coarse climber; stem 2.5 dm thick; branches few, rigid, 
thick, extending clear to the tops of large trees, the ulti- 
mate twigs as thick as a man’s arm; wood whitish, with a 
peculiar greenish bitter taste and odor, easily splitting; bark 
smooth, grayish. Leaves alternate; ascending petiole 8 to 9 
dm long, glabrous, obscurely angular, much thickened and 
warty at the base, with an interaxillary 5 cm long very thick 
and acuminate y pointed bract; petiolule relatively very stout, 
2 to 3 dm long, glabrous, thickened at both ends; leaflets 9 to 12, 
ascendingly curved from the suberect petiolule end, condu- 
plicate on the upper dark green surface, beneath yellowish 
green, broadly obtuse to rounded at base, apex abruptly ter- 
minated into an acute or acuminate point, rigidly coriaceous, 
marginal sides irregularly wavy in the fresh state, otherwise 
entire, curing dull brown on both sides, oblong, the Jarger 
blades 1 by 3 dm, the smaller ones subelliptic; midrib very 
pronounced beneath; main lateral nerves 11 on each side but 
