ae 8, 1914) New ARALIACEAE FROM MINDANAO 2336 
/| with secondary ones intervening, ascending, less pronounced, 
| tips curved, reticulations obscure. Inflorescence terminal, com-. 
posed of spikes 8 to 6 dm long; stalks subtended by bracts, 
stout, glabrous, subterete and striate, fruit, bearing from below 
the middle, turning reddish brown on the exposed sides; 
heads globose, 2.5 cm in diameter, yellowish green, upon 
thick 5 to 8 mm long, striately wrinkled, stalks also be 
coming reddish brown; flowers cremeus, odorless: young fruits 
. sessile, forming concrete heads, 7 mm long, 4 mm thick 
| above the middle, the lower two thirds compressed or an- 
` gular, the apical one third pyramidally conical and encrust- 
.^ ed, in the dry state strongly rugose, the blunt stigma ru- 
| gosely folded, the contiguous sides thin and much paler 
yellow; seeds 3, surrounding a triangular central placenta, 
the young seeds mango shaped, attached at the bottom, mi- 
if nutely ciliate along the edge, 4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. 
4 Type specimen number 10488, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
id (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
NA Collected this strangling large tree climber in humid 
forests at 4000 feet altitude. “‘Pararan’’ is the Bagobo name. 
Closely allied to Schefflera oblongifolia Merr. 
[/ : Schefflera merrillii Elm. n. &p. 
A tree climber; stem 5 em thick, terete; branches at the 
top and widely spreading, rather crooked, yellowish, 2.5 cm 
thick or only one half as thick at the leaf bearing ends; 
wood sappy white, bitterish, soft and porous, white as well as the 
large pith; bark gray, smooth. Leaves alternate along the 
twigs, ascending; petiole 2 dm long, striate, terete, thick- 
ened at the base and expanded into an intermarginal bract; 
blades 5 to 9, variable in size, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, 
ascending or horizontal, dark green on the upper shallowly 
conduplicate surface, much lighter green beneath, drying 
blackish brown, entire or occasionally serrately toothed above 
the middle, the average ones 2 dm long by 11 cm wide 
at the middle, elliptically elongated, broadly rounded at the 
| base, apex abruptly acute to acuminate; petiolule. 2 to 5 
| em long, striate, dull green aud glabrous, swollen at the . 
base, ascendingly curved at the distal end; midrib pro- 
