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arranged on the primary branches, their peduncles 4 to 5 mm 

 long. Calyx obovoid, truncate, about 1.2 mm long, petals oblong 

 ovate, acute, 2.5 mm long, ovary 5-celled. 



Mindanao, Lanao District, on the Lanao-Cotabato trail. For. 

 Bur. 25240 Alvarez, March 24, 1916, altitude 1,100 meters. 



This species is manifestly allied to Schefflera caudatifolia Merr., 

 from which it differs especially in its flowers being arranged 

 in umbels rather than in fascicles; in its much shorter rachis 

 and much longer primary branches; while the primary nerves 

 of the leaves are spreading rather than ascending. 



SCHEFFLERA GLOBOSA sp. nov. § Euschefflera, Heptapleurum. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis et infructescentiis stellato-tomen- 

 tosis, indumento brunneo, ramis incrassatis; foliis 6-foliolatis, 

 longissime petiolatis, foliolis oblongis, firmiter chartaceis, inte- 

 gris, usque ad 44 cm longis, apice tenuiter acuminatis; inflores- 

 centiis terminalibus, rhachibus leviter productis, ramis primariis 

 3 ad 5, usque ad 20. cm longis, racemose dispositis; fructibus 

 globosis, esulcatis, 5-locellatis, 5 mm diametro, umbellulis race- 

 mose dispositis, breviter pedunculatis, fructibus confertis brevis- 

 sime pedicellatis. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the young branchlets, bracts, 

 and infructescences, which are brown stellate-tomentose, the 

 ultimate branches up to 1 cm in diameter. Leaves palmately 

 6-foliolate, their petioles inflated and clasping at the base, stout, 

 30 to 35 cm long; leaflets oblong, firmly chartaceous, entire, gla- 

 brous, shiny, 22 to 44 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, the base rounded 

 to subacute, the apex slenderly acuminate; lateral nerves 15 to 

 20 on each side of the midrib, distinct as are the reticulations, 

 anastomosing, petiolules 5 to 11 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, 

 the rachis somewhat produced, the primary branches 3 to 5, 16 

 to 20 cm long, racemosely disposed, each subtended by an oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, subcoriaceous bract about 3 cm in length. 

 Fruits globose, about 5 mm in diameter, very slightly furfura- 

 ceous, not sulcate, 5-celled, terminated by the 5 nearly sessile 

 stigmas, arranged in short-peduncled, scattered umbels, 9 to 10 

 fruits crowded on each umbel, their pedicels 1 to 2 mm long, the 

 peduncles 2 to 7 mm long, the pedicels and peduncles with the 

 same type of indumentum as the rachis. 



Panay, Capiz Province, Jamindan, Bur. Sci. 30897 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 21, 1918, on tree trunks in forests along streams. 



This species in vegetative characters strongly resembles Schef- 

 flera digitata (Blanco) Merr. {S. machranta Merr.), but differs 

 radically in its very short pedicels and 5-celled fruits. The 



