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Petals 5, broadly ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, valvate. Filaments 

 3 mm long. Fruit subellipsoid, 5 mm long, deeply 5-sulcate, 5- 

 celled, crowned by the stellately arranged sessile globose stigmas. 



Sarawak, vicinity of Kuching, Native collector 798 (type), 797, 1875 

 Bur. Sci., July and August, 1911, Rock Road, near Kuching. Perhaps 

 referable here are also Native collector 1275, 1717 Bur. Sci., but the former 

 is very imperfect, and the latter has longer primary branches of the 

 inflorescence, and distinctly longer peduncled umbels. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Schefflera gracilis (Blume) 

 Vig., from which it is easily distinguished by its larger, caudate-acuminate 

 leaflets. 



SCHEFFLERA CALYPTRATA sp. nov. 



Frutex, inflorescentiis junioribus furfuraceis exceptis glaber; 

 foliis 3-foliolatis, breviter crasseque petiolatis, foliolis coriaceis, 

 rigidis, oblongis, nitidis, laevis, usque ad 22 cm longis, acumi- 

 natis, basi obtusis ad subacutis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12; pani- 

 culis terminalibus, ramis paucis, usque ad 14 cm longis ; umbellis 

 in ramis primariis racemose dispositis, paucifloris, floribus ple- 

 rumque 6-meris, breviter pedicellatis, calycis turbinatis vel infun- 

 dibuliformibus, truncatis, petalis omnibus connatis, calyptratim 

 deciduis. 



A shrub, glabrous except the inflorescences, w^hich in anthesis 

 are distinctly furfuraceous. Branches rugose when dry. Leaves 

 3-foliolate, their petioles stout, 2 cm long or less, the hard, 

 cylindric, often somewhat curved, sheathing stipules exceeding 

 the petioles. Leaflets thickly coriaceous, rigid, oblong, smooth 

 and shining, 11 to 22 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, apex rather 

 abruptly and sharply acuminate, base obtuse to subacute, brown- 

 ish-olivaceous when dry, the lower surface paler than the upper ; 

 lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, somewhat 

 curved, not prominent, the reticulations obsolete or subobsolete; 

 petiolules stout, about 3.5 cm long. Panicles terminal, furfur- 

 aceous, shortly peduncled, branched from near the base, each 

 panicle with but two or three branches, these up to 14 cm in 

 length. Flowers in few-flowered, racemosely disposed umbels, 

 the peduncles opposite, verticillate or alternate, up to 1.5 cm 

 long, 5 to 8 flowers in an umbel, their pedicels glabrous, 4 to 

 5 mm long, rather stout. Calyx turbinate, truncate, about 2.5 

 mm long. Petals wholly united into an ovoid, rounded calyptra 

 up to 4 mm in length, which is circumscissly deciduous. Anthers 

 usually 6, oblong, obtuse, 3 mm long. Ovary 6- or 7-celled. 



British North Borneo, Mount Kinabalu, Kiau, Mrs. Clemens 10180, 

 November 1, 1915. 



With the specimen is a detached fruiting branch about 30 cm in length, 



