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Miss 8, 1914] New ARALIACEAE FROM MINDANAO 2339 
general route between lake Danao and the summit. ‘‘Para- 
qi ran" in Manobo. 
Schefflera albido-bracteata Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic; stem 3.5 cm thick, terete, ascending, 3 to 4 
m long, repeatedly branched, crooked; woody tissue sappy 
white, odorless and tasteless, pith exceedingly large and duller 
in color; bark relatively very thick, smooth and grayish green 
on the surface, deep green beneath the epidermis, the inner 
and greater portion wood color, its whitish juice semiviscid; 
branches slender, sparingly rebranched, the 1.25 cm thick 
twigs suberect. Petioles of leaves alternating toward the ends 
of the twigs, divaricately spreading, deep green, glabrous. 
terete, 1.5 to 2 dm long, at the base subtened by a broad 
and emarginately rounded interaxillary glabrous bract; petio- 
lule varying from 2 to 5 cm long, horizontally spreading, 
also glabrous, subterete and finely striate, ascendingly curved 
at the apex, narrowly caniculate along the upper flattened 
portion, yellowish brown when dry, 7 to 18; blades as many 
as petiolules, oblong or the smallest ones broadly lanceolate, 
pe obtuse to subrounded at base, apex acute to slenderly acumi- 
| | . nate, the entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, the 
| average lamina 13 em long by 4 em wide across the middle 
! or a trifle below it; midrib ridged beneath, plane above; 
i lateral nerves 9 to 11 on each side, ascending, tips inter- 
1 arching, more conspicuous beneath, reticulations numerous and 
quite evident from both sides. Inflorescence upon short thick 
more or less bracteate stalks or peduncles, terminal, radially 
spreading or more suberect, spikes several, alternatingly clus- 
tered, slender, dark green when fresh, finely striate and in 
the early state more or less pulverulent, 1.5 to 2.5 dm long, 
1 at the base amply provided with bracts; bracts heavy, white 
] on the dorsal side, brown pulverulent on the ventral side, 
oblong, 1.5 to 3 cm long, relative in width, ventrally folded 
or imbricated; flowers in small clusters, promiscuously scattered 
| along the whole length of the spikes, subsessile or upon as 
i long as 5 mm long slightly pulverulent and green stalks; 
pedicel 1.5 mm long, glabrous, yellowish green; calyx dis- 
ciform, 1.5 mm across, enclosing one half of the ovary, 
