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This plant is very small in all its parts ; the largest leaf is "9 <lm. by 

 9'5 cm. with petiole 1 dm. long ; the petiolules vary from l'5-2'5 cm., the two 

 lateral ones heing the shortest and bearing the smallest folioles, generally 

 very unequal in size; the largest folioles are +7 cm. by 2 cm. with 5-6 

 lateral veins. The inflorescence is compound, composed of racemes grouped 

 1-4 in the axils of the upper leaves ; the flowering racemes are 9 cm. by 

 4 cm. with peduncles 2-3 cm. long, the umbels are +1 cm. across and 

 consist of 9-10 flowers, on pedicels +4 mm. long, each subtended by a 

 minute bract. The fruiting racemes (immature) are 11 cm. long and 

 chocolate-brown in colour when dried. Flowers green. Calyx 1'5 mm. by 

 1-7 mm. Petals angular acute, 2 mm. long. Stamens 1'5 mm. long, with 

 ovate anthers '7 mm. long. Style '5 mm. long. Fruit 5-ribbed with 

 conical disc 3 mm. long ; persistent style 1 mm. long. 



The elongated style with fiv stigmatic lobes places this plant in the 

 Agalma group. It is very closely allied to S. monticola Ridl., collected on 

 Mt. Carstensz by Kloss, but differs in the larger leaves with much longer 

 petioles and petiolules, the longer obtuse folioles, much narrowed into the 

 petiolules, and in heing much more sparsely squamulose. 



SHEFFLERA (EUSHEFFLERA) ANGIENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 



Arbor parva. Folia ampla, digitata, longe petiolata, petiolo glabro, vagina 

 lata, in stipulam lanceolatam lorige producto, squamulis setosis densissime obtecta ; 

 foliola 15, apice petioli vertieillata, breviter petiolata, oblonga, basi obtusa, apice 

 cuspidata vel obtusa, integerrima, coriacea, glabra. Panicula terminalis, rami 

 peclunculati, florum capitula secus ramos paniculae racemosa, flores pedicellati, 

 rhachis furfuracea. Calyx margine vix distinctus. Corolla et stamina non visa. 

 Discus meclio conicus, uiargine undulatus. Ovarium 5-loculare, semisuperum. 

 Styli in columnam brevem eonnati, stigmati bus sessilibus. Bacca sessilis. 5-costata, 

 apice convexa. 



Hob. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest by ? lake, 7000'. Fl., 

 Fr. (yg.). 5950. 



A small tree with the habit of Sliefflera actinophylla (F. Muell.) Harms. 

 In the specimen leaf the petiole, including vagina, is 2-4 dm. long, the 

 stipules being 2 cm. by 6 mm., very coriaceous in texture ; the petiolules 

 are comparatively thick and short, l'5-3 cm. long ; folioles vary from 

 7 cm.-l'7 dm. by 2'5-4'5 cm., all are more or less sharply cuspidate, though 

 the cusp varies in length and may even not be developed ; when dried the 

 leaves are chocolate-brown in colour, with smooth upper surface, the lower 

 being light brown and rugulose, with the veins showing faintly. The 

 branches and the inflorescence are each 5*4 dm. by 3'5 cm., the small 

 umbels on peduncles +1 cm. long consist of 10-12 flowers, on pedicels 

 3'5 mm. long, non-articulated, with minute scales almost forming little 

 involucres at the base, 1 mm. long : these scales increase in size in fruit to 

 2 mm. long, as does also the furfuraceous covering of the rhachis. The 



