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palmately 5-foliolate, their petioles inflated at the base, about 

 5 cm long. Leaflets oblong to elliptic-oblong, chartaceous, shin- 

 ing, 15 to 24 cm long, 7.5 to 9.5 cm wide, entire, the apex shortly 

 acuminate, the base rounded; lateral nerves slender, about 25 

 on each side of the midrib, the reticulations distinct ; petiolule of 

 the central leaflet 7 cm long, of the next two inner leaflets 2.5 

 to 3 cm long, of the outer leaflets about 1 cm long. Inflorescence 

 terminal, peduncled, the peduncle up to 15 cm long, usually with 

 two distant, ovate bracts, the lower one 5 mm long, the upper 

 one twice as long. Branches of the inflorescence subumbellately 

 disposed near the apex of the peduncles, usually 6, slender, about 

 30 cm long, many-flowered. Flowers racemosely disposed, usually 

 fascicled at the nodes, few in each fascicle, pale-green, their pedi- 

 cels about 6 mm long. Calyx short, truncate, somewhat disk-like 

 Petals 5, oblong-ovate or ovate, acute, appendaged at the apex 

 inside, 3 mm long, 3-nerved. Filaments 2 mm long; anthers 

 broad, about 1.3 mm long. Fruit not seen. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Siay River, For. Bur. 13396 Fox- 

 worthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 29, 1912, on river banks, known to the 

 Moros as canonucan. 



Apparently a very distinct species, characterized by being quite glabrous; 

 by its peduncled inflorescence, with its elongated subumbellately disposed 

 primary branches; and its 5-foliolate, entire, ample leaves with their very 

 unequal petiolules. 



SCHEFFLERA CAUDATI FOLIA sp. nov. § Euschefflera. 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 

 palmatim 5-foliolatis, foliolis subcoriaceis, nitidis, oblongis ad 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, utrinque angustatis, 

 basi acutis, apice longe tenuiter caudato-acuminatis ; floribus 

 racemosis, 5-meris, racemis subterminalis, solitariis vel binis, 

 tenuibus, usque ad 13 cm longis. 



A scandent shrub, quite glabrous, the branches and branchlets 

 terete, when dry light-gray, wrinkled. Leaves scattered, pal- 

 mately 5-foliolate, their petioles 4 to 8 cm long, inflated at the 

 base; leaflets oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 

 3.4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the 

 slenderly caudate-acuminate apex, entire, the acumen straight 

 or falcate, up to 2 cm long, the upper surface subolivaceous, 

 shining, the lower shining, paler than the upper; lateral nerves 

 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, rather distinct, anastomosing; 

 petiolules 1 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, of one or two 

 rather slender racemes, the racemes up to 13 cm long. Flowers 

 5-merous, solitary, in pairs, or somewhat fascicled, their pedicels 



