2336 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor.. VII, Art. | 
nounced beneath, less prominent above; lateral nerves 6 to 
8 pairs, ascendingly curved, also conspicuous beneath, retic- 
ulations coarse and relatively bold. Infrutescence terminal, 
ascending, 3 to 5 dm long, branched from near the base, 
few to several and spicate, subtended by stipular-like bracts; 
rachis green, glabrous, blackish brown in the dry state; 
fruit bearing branchlets, scattered, divaricate, 5 or more mm 
long; heads composed of few to several sessile -fruits; fruits 
salmon colored, obovoid or broadly ellipsoid, 5 mm long at 
least, several in a head or cluster, two thirds of the basal 
portion surrounded by the calyx, glabrous and shallowly 
rugose, the apical one third flattened except the blunt con- 
ical and much thickened stigma; immature seeds mango 
shaped, 4 mm long, only one half as wide across the mid- 
dle, apparently attached from the base and contained in a 
bony exocarp. 
Type specimen number 11277, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Discovered in humid forests at 3000 feet altitude. The 
Bagobos call it ''Basuloi", and is here named after Mr. E. 
D. Merrill. 
Schefflera catensis Elm. n. sp. 
Subscandent and epiphytic; stem 5 m long, 1.25 dm 
thick, branched from near the base, the ultimate ones rather 
slender; wood soft, greenish, with the usual Araliaceous odor; 
bark smooth, yellowish, twigs brown lenticelled. Leaves al- 
ternate, ascending; petiole terete, 1.5 to 2 dm long, dark 
green, grooved along the upper side; petiolules 2 to 5 cm 
long, strict, radially spreading, minutely grooved above; blades 
ascending, recurved toward the acute to acuminate apex, flat 
or shallowly conduplicate on the upper darker green side, 
paler or yellowish green beneath, the edges coarsely wavy 
and with few widely scattering serrate teeth except the en- 
tire broadly cuneate basal portion, oblong, the larger lamina 
12 em long by 4 cm wide at the middle or just above it, 
the smaller ones one half as large, 7 to 9-foliate, curing 
dull brown on both sides; midrib quite prominent; the la- 
teral nerves 5 to 8 on each side, ascending, straight, forked 
