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a the distal end, more evident from beneath, cross 
ral 
i bars and reticulations relatively coarse. Panicle terminal, the 
i} several stalks alternatingly clustered at the ends of the twigs, 
li l dm to 2.5 dm across, glabrous and light green; main branches 
} ascending, rebranched from above the middle, ultimate branchlets 
Í as long as 2 cm; flowers in dense umbels, their slender pedicels 
HR less than 5 mm in length; pedicels about 3 mm long, glabrous, 
jH tj yellowish green, umbellately spreading, subtended by minute bract 
m vestiges or without them, a trifle thicker toward the base and 
subarticulate at the base; calyx similarly colored, 3 mm across, 
broadly eup shaped, the rim submembranous, 1.5 mm deep; cor- 
olla yellowish, hood shaped, 4 mm high and fully as wide, becom- 
ing easily detached, glabrous, apex rugose and somewhat thicken- 
ed, somewhat glandular along the striae on the inner side; stamens 
about 8, inserted upon the inner base of the corolla and upon 
the ovary rim; filaments 3 mm long, flattened and expanded 
toward the base, tapering toward the deflexed apex, yellow, 
also glabrous; anther oblong, 2.5 mm long, dorsifixed, ends 
rounded or emarginate, nearly 1 mm wide, creased longi- 
tudinally; ovary crown flatly conical, style very short, stigma 
PY large. : 
f Type specimen number 11519, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
4 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
| Discovered in very wet dense forests along the Cati creek 
at 6000 feet altitude of mount Apo. ''Salapi-a-bucolod" in the 
Bagobo dialect. 
Distinct from Schefflera cumingii (Seem.) Merr. and Schef- 
flera bordeni Merr. 
Scheffiera urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic shrvb and subscandent in habit when young; 
main stem 2.5 em thick, terete, repeatedly branched from 
the base, the branches -horizontally spreading; the lax and 
7 crooked twigs descending, glabrous, yellowish, striate at least 
in the dry state, 3 to 5 mm thick. Leaves horizontal, 
n alternatingly scattered, upon ascending petioles; petiole 5 to 
i 10 cm long, slender, glabrous, green, wart-like at the thickened 
J base, suberect at the distal end; leaflets 5 or the upper ones 
| only trifoliate, conduplicate, acute apex recurved, broadly 
