28 SPECIES OF EUGENIA, SCHEFFLERA, AND SAXJRAUIA. 



Leaves palmately 8- to 10-foliolate, their petioles up to 43 cm. 

 long; leaflets coriaceous, pale or pale-brownish when dry, some- 

 what shining, oblong, 18 to 26 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. wide, apex 

 shortly acuminate, base obtuse to acute ; primary lateral nerves 

 about 12 on each side of the midrib, rather distinct although 

 but slightly projecting on both surfaces as are the rather close 

 reticulations, curved, anastomosing; petiolules 3.5 to 8 cm. 

 long, somewhat thickened at their apices. Inflorescence ap- 

 parently terminal, consisting of numerous, elongated, race- 

 moselv arranged, crowded primary branches about 10 cm. in 

 length, each subtended by a coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3 cm. long, furfuraceous bract. Umbels 

 numerous, 15- to 20-flowered, their peduncles slender, in 

 anthesis 1.5 to 2 cm. long, each subtended by an oblong, about 

 5 mm. long, deciduous, bract, the pedicels up to 1 mm. in 

 length, all parts brown-furfuraceous. Flowers 5-merous ; the 

 calyx funnel-shaped, about 1.8 mm. in diameter, 5-toothed, 

 the teeth lanceolate-acuminate from a broad base, about 0.5 

 mm. long. Petals ovate, 2 mm. long, externally minutely and 

 sparingly furfuraceous. Fruits ellipsoid, about 1 mm. long. 

 prominently and sharply 5-angled, 5-sulcate. 



Sarawak, Knelling, II aril and 29J>8 (type), January 25, 

 1893, " small tTQe, flowers yellow: Native collector 1000 Bur. 



Sci. 



This species is strongly characterized by its numerous, 

 coriaceous, entire leaflets, the petioles being unusually long, 

 and its numerous, crowded, greatly elongated primary branches 

 of the inflorescences which are conspicuously brown-furfurace- 

 ous throughout and about 40 cm. in length. Haviland's speci- 

 men presents ten of these primary branches, manifestly but a 

 part of those from a single inflorescence. 



Schefflera burkillii, sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber ; foliis 5 — -3-foliolatis, foliolis coriaceis, oli- 

 vaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, integris, usque ad 10 cm. 

 longis, acutis vel leviter aeuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 10, tenuibus, reticulis distinctis ; inflorescentiis ter- 

 minalibus, brevissime pedunculatis, circiter 5 cm. longis, ramis 

 primariis usque ad -4, subumbellatim dispositis ; umoellis in 

 ramis singulis usque ad 7, pedunculatis, 10 — 15-floris : fori- 

 bus pedicellatis, 6-meris, petalis circiter 2.S mm. longis. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches rugose when dry, about 5 

 mm. in diameter, dark-colored. Leaves 5- to 3-folioIate, their 

 petioles about 1 cm. long, inflated at the base, the narrow 

 margins of the inflated part somewhat recurved, not appressed 

 to the branches. Leaflets coriaceous, olivaceous when dry. 

 oblong to oblong-elliptic, 8 to 10 cm. long, 3.5 to 1 cm. wide, 

 entire, base acute, apex acute to somewhat acuminate, mar- 



•lour. Straits Branch 



