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A species not closely allied to any previously known Phil- 

 ippine form, well characterized by its lanceolate, caudate-acu- 

 minate, long-petiolulate, comparatively small, entire leaves and 

 by its ample inflorescences, the spreading primary branches 

 being racemosely arranged along the elongated axis. 



SCHEFFLERA HALCONENSIS sp. nov. § Heptapleurum. 



Frutex glaber, ramulis lenticellatis, circiter 5 mm diametro; 

 foliis 5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, rigidis, 

 atro-olivaceis, subtus pallidioribus, integris, 8 ad 15 cm longis, 

 acute acuminatis, basi acutis, plerumque plus minusve inaequi- 

 lateralibus, brevissime petiolulatis, nervis utrinque 13 ad 15, 

 tenuibus, admodum subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis breviter pedun- 

 culatis, ramis primariis plerumque 3, elongatis, circiter 20 cm 

 longis, deorsum nudis, floribus umbellatis, umbellis paucis, 5- ad 

 7-floris, racemose dispositis; fructibus 6-locellatis, late ovoideis, 

 5 mm longis, leviter sulcatis. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches terete, about 5 mm in diameter, 

 lenticellate. Leaves 5-foliolate, their petioles 4 to 7 cm long, 

 rather stout; leaflets oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, rigid, the upper 

 surface dark olivaceous when dry, the lower surface much paler, 

 slightly shining, 8 to 15 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, the apex slightly 

 acuminate, base acute, margins entire; lateral nerves very 

 slender, 13 to 15 on each side of the midrib, often scarcely 

 visible, the reticulations obsolete; petiolules 3 to 8 mm long. 

 Inflorescences shortly peduncled, usually bearing three primary 

 elongated branches about 20 cm in length, these floriferous only 

 in the upper one-half, the umbels racemosely arranged, 5- to 7- 

 flowered, the peduncles about 1 cm long, the pedicels 3 to 5 mm 

 long. Fruits orange-red, broadly ovoid, 6-celled, about 5 mm 

 long, slightly sulcate. 



MiNDORO, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5696, November, 1906. In 

 damp primary forests at an altitude of about 900 meters. 



A species well characterized by its brittle, obscurely nerved 

 leaflets and its shortly peduncled inflorescences bearing usually 

 three elongated primary branches which bear a few racemosely 

 disposed umbels in the upper part. The material was collected 

 from an erect shrub about 1 m high ; in age the plant doubtless 

 becomes more or less scandent. 



SCHEFFLERA CINNAMOMEA sp. nov. § Cephaloschefflera. 



Arbor erecta (vel scandens?), inflorescentiis junioribus dense 

 furfuraceis; foliis circiter 12-foliolatis, longissime petiolatis, 

 petiole glabro, circiter 70 cm longo, foliolis oblongis ad oblongo- 



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