acr 8, 1914] NEW ARALIACEAE FROM MINDANAO 2341 
4 to 7, ascending, tips anastomosing, reticulations more apparent 
on the nether side. Inflorescence or infrutescence terminal, 
suberect, usually 3 or more clustered, stalks about 1 dm 
long, green, subangular, the central one paniculately branched 
from below the middle, the lateral ones from above the mid- 
dle, glabrous, subtended at the base by a short involucral 
bract; branches alternate, divaricate, the lower or longer 
ones rebranched from above the middle, the slender ultimate 
ones less than 1 cm long; pedicels few to several and 
umbellately spreading, yellowish when dry, articulate at the 
base, 7.5 mm long; young fruits broadly turbinate, 3 mm 
long and nearly as wide across the tip, the apical one third 
truncately rounded and subglaucous; older fruits subglobose, 
5 mm across, the basal two thirds surrounded by the gla- 
brous yellowish calyx, the apical portion glaucous green and 
nearly truncate, the 5 stigmas forming a flat obscurely ru- 
gose crust; immature seeds 5, nearly as long as the fruit, 
much compressed. 
Type specimen number 13652, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 
$ 1912. 
it Collected in stony ground and among jungled woods along 
the Catangan creek at 500 feet altitude. The native or Ma- 
nobo name is ‘‘Pararan.’? ; 
Very near to Schefflera bordeni Merr. in relationship. 
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