BY E. D. MERRILL. 537 



brevitei- vel vix pedimculatis, dense multifloris, 8 cm longis, 

 tirc-iter 15 cm latis, ramis primai-iis paiicis, inferioribiis patulis, 

 circiter 3 cm longis, bracteis rigidis, oblongo-lanceolatis, aciitis 

 vel acuminatis, 2.5 ad 4 mm longis ; floribus circiter 4 cm 

 longis, ut videtnr rubris. in ramnlis nltimis in triadibus 

 dispositis, interioi-ibus sessiiil>iis, lateralibns breviter fl.S ad 

 '2.5 mm) crasse pedicellatis. bracteolis oblongo-ovatis, circiter 

 1 mm longis ; calyce circiter 3 mm longo, snbinfimdilniliformi, 

 lobis 4, late ovatis, obtiisis, vix 1 mm longis ; corollae tubo 

 4 cm longo, lobis patnlis, ellipticis, rotimdatis, 1.5 cm longis, 

 circiter 7 mm latis. 



Mount Murud, No. 116, E. Mjoberg, October, 1922. 

 indicated altitude 1900 and 2400 m. 



Mount Murud, Nos. 84, 111, October, 1922. on naked 

 exposed ledges at the summit, altitude 2400 m. 



A species in aspect distinctly different from Baeckca frntes- 

 cens Linn., with rigid branchlets, stonter. curved, obtuse, 

 shorter, eglandular leaves and larger sessile flowers. The 

 petals are attached by broad bases, not narrowed belo'^^', and 

 the stamens are in groups of threes opposite each petal, not in 

 pairs, the inner filament of each group being somv;hat longer 

 than the two lateral ones. Baeckea irutescens Linn., as it 

 occurs in southeastern China and in Borneo, is a Iwo-altitude. 

 species, although in the Malay Peninsula it occures on the 

 higher mountains. 



AKALL\CEAE. 



SCHEFFLEBA Forster. 



ScHEFFLERA REMOTISERRATA sp. nov. § Heptapleiirum . 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramulis circiter 4 mm diametro ; 

 foliis longe (ca. 12 cm) petiolatis, 5-foliolatis, foliolis lanceolatis, 

 rectis vel falcatis, chartaceis ad subcoriacis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, 

 1.4 ad 2 cm latis, breviter (ca. 1 cm"* petiolulatis, utrinque 

 subaequaliter angustatis, basi cuneatis, apice temiiter caiidato- 

 acuminatis, deorsum integris sursum utrinque dentibus 1 ad 

 3 distantibus parvis instructis ; nervis lateralibus distantibns, 

 paucis, indistinctis ; inflorescentiis terminalibns, longe fca. 9 

 cm") pedunculatis, furcatis, ramis primariis binis, pedunculo 

 aequantibus, ramulis secundariis umbellatis, paucis, 2 ad 3 cm 

 longis; floribus paucis, 6-meris, umbellatis, umbellulis 3 and 



