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entire, base rounded to obtuse, apex slenderly caudate-acumi- 

 nate ; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, anastomos- 

 ing, distinct, as are the reticulations ; petiolules 6 to 8 cm long. 

 Branches of the inflorescence 40 to 45 cm long, stout, glabrous, 

 bearing numerous, racemosely arranged, dense, globose, glabrous 

 heads, which in young fruit are from 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, 

 their peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Young fruits 5-sulcate, 3 to 4 

 mm long, 5-celled. 



Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Madiaas, Bur. Sci. 30736, 

 Ramos & Edano, May 12, 1918, in the mossy forest. 



This species resembles Schefflera catanduanensis, but has longer 

 inflorescence branches and is furthermore very easily distin- 

 guished by its peduncled heads. 



BOERLAGIODENDRON Harms 

 BOERLAGIODENDRON CAUDATUM sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 2 m altus ; f oliis longe petiolatis, palmatim 7- 

 ad 9-foliolatis, foliolis nitidis, lanceolatis, valde inaequalibus, 10 

 ad 23 cm longis, tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, basi decurrento- 

 acuminatis, majoribus plerumque utrinque 1- vel 2-lobatis, mar- 

 gine irregulariter perspicue dentatis ; petiolo circiter 40 cm longo, 

 basi cristis pectinatis 2 vel 3 instructis, dentibus deflexis ; inflo- 

 rescentiis sessilibus, circiter 15 cm diametro, radiis primariis 

 circiter 25 ; capitulis ^ circiter 1 cm diametro, floribus conf ertis 

 brevissime pedicellatis, 4-meris. 



An erect shrub, about 2 m high, the leaf -bearing part of the 

 stem at least 1 cm in diameter. Leaves long-petioled, palmately 

 7- to 9-foliolate; leaflets subcoriaceous, olivaceous and shining 

 when dry, lanceolate, very unequal in size, 10 to 23 cm long, 

 slenderly caudate-acuminate, base decurrent-acuminate, the 

 larger ones usually deeply lobed, the lobes 1 or 2, rarely 3, ex- 

 tending nearly to the midrib, the margins with irregular, rather 

 prominent, usually incui^ed teeth; petiolules of the larger leaf- 

 lets up to 3 cm in length, the smaller leaflets sometimes nearly 

 sessile; petioles about 40 cm long, 4 to 5 mm in diameter, the 

 basal 1 cfti supplied with 2 or 3 pectinate crests, their teeth 

 deflexed up to 7 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, about 

 15 cm in diameter, composed of about 25 primary branches, each 

 subtended by an oblong to oblong-ovate, coriaceous bract about 

 1.5 cm long, the primary branches about 4 cm long, glabrous, then 

 dichotomously or trichotomously branched, the bracts subtending 

 the branches oblong to oblong-lanceolate, about 1 cm long, some- 

 what setose-furfuraceous, central branch 1 to 1.5 cm long, gla- 

 brous, bearing a globose head of sterile flowers about 1 cm in 



