2340 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vol VH, CART: ud 
similar in color and also glabrous; corolla longitudinally 
creased, cremeus, the 5 segments ultimately separating, com- 
pressed globose, occasionally gland spotted; each petal with 3 
parallel nerves, nearly 2 mm long, base truncate, apex acute, 
triangularly ovate in shape; stamens 5, inserted about the 
ovary; filaments less than 0.5 mm long, light yellow; anthers 
broadly ellipsoid, lobed at base, notched at apex, about as 
long as the filaments and of the same color; ovary crown 
flattened and obscurely rugose, terminated by the thickened 
stigmatic group. 
Type specimen numbers 13722 and 13808, A. D. E. Elmer, 
Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, 
September, 1912. 
Both of these numbers were collected along the forested 
depression between Duros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet 
altitude. Both of them are lofty tree epiphytes, and although 
the former was called ‘‘Makinging’’? and the latter ‘‘Oton- 
oliton”? by the same Manobos, they no doubt are the same 
species. In this same region I noticed occasionally large 
shining. vermillion Scheffera fruits on the ground, but their 
specific identity is not known. 
Quite close to the type of Schefflera angustifolium Merr. from 
San Mateo, Luzon. 
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Schefflera agusanensis Elm. n. sp. 
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A looping and sprawling subscandent shrub; old stem 
7.5 cm thick, terete, much curved or looping, branched toward 
the top; wood dingy white, soft, porous and with fine radial 
lines, odorless, sweet to taste; bark thick, dirty brown and 
smoothish, yellowish white otherwise, its sap latex-like; branches 
long, drooping, grayish white, bearing ascending rather short 
branchlets, the green young twigs glabrous. Leaves alternate; 
petiole 1 dm long, also glabrous, terete, expanded at the 
base; petiolule minutely caniculate above, 2 to 4 cm long, 
radially spreading, 5 to 7, they as well as the petiole dull 
yellowish brown in the dry state; blades curing grayish, coria- 
ceous, elliptic, base obtusely rounded, the recurved apex acute, 
entire, 5 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide at the middle 
or a trifle above it; midrib more prominent beneath, nerves 
