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about 20 on each side of the midrib, the secondary nerves and 
reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflores- 
cence terminal, corymbose, branched from the base, about 5 cm 
long, 5 to. 6 cm wide across the top, the branches mostly trichoto- 
mous, pale-olivaceous, shining, subterete. Flowers numerous, 
crowded at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, 5 to 7 on each 
branchlet, sessile, the buds obovoid-obcuneate, about 4 mm long, 
the calyx terete, brown and slightly rugose when dry, the throat 
about. 2.5 mm in diameter, the limb truncate, produced about 
1.8 mm above the ovary. Petals wholly united into a deciduous 
calyptra about 2.5 mm in diameter. Filaments numerous, 3 to 
5 mm long. 
British North Borneo, Kalabakan watershed, in forests along the 
Pinajos River, Villamil 229, October 3, 1916, altitude about 4 meters. 
The striking characters of this species are its oblong, chartaceous, 
epunctate, slenderly nerved leaves, terete branchlets, and terminal corymbose 
inflorescences which are branched from the base. 
ARALIACEAE 
SCHEFFLERA Forster 
SCHEFFLERA Bl PALM ATI FOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex glabra, vel inflorescentiis leviter furfuraceis; foliis 
longissime petiolatis, bipalmatis, radiis primariis 6 vel 7, petiolis 
primal iis usque ad 18 cm longis, quisque 3- ad 5-foliolatis, foliolis 
longe petiolulatis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, tenuiter 
acuminatis, integris, chartaceis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 10 ; inflores- 
centiis terminalibus, breviter pedunculatis, ramis confertis, usque 
ad 30 cm longis; floribus fasciculatis, numerosis, subsessilibus, 
5-meris; fructibus subellipsoideis, sulcatis, 4 mm longis, 5- 
locellatis. 
A glabrous shrub, or the inflorescences somewhat furfur- 
aceous. Leaves long-petioled, bipalmately compound, the prim- 
ary divisions 6 or 7, their partial petioles up to 18 cm in length, 
each bearing from 3 to 5 palmately arranged leaflets; leaflets 
chartaceous, greenish-olivaceous, shining, entire, oblong-ovate to 
oblong-elliptic, 15 to 25 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, slenderly 
acuminate, base rounded to subacute; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on 
each side of the midrib, prominent; petiolules 2 to 6 cm long. 
Inflorescences terminal, shortly peduncled, the rachis slightly 
prolonged, the simple branches crowded, each subtended by a 
lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat furfuraceous bract up to 2.5 
cm long, the individual branches in anthesis up to 30 cm long, 
longer and glabrous in fruit, the flowers very numerous, crowded 
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