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tomosing, the primary reticulations very lax, the secondary ones | 
obsolete; petiolules stout, dark-brown when dry, 8 cm long. 
Racemes apparently axillary, stout, 30 to 40 cm long, the rachis 
dark-brown when dry, 7 to 10 mm in diameter. Heads mostly 1 
in the upper one-half, their pedicels stout, 1.5 to 2 cm long, the 
rachis with rather numerous scars of fallen pedicels; fruiting 
heads ellipsoid, 1.5 cm long, dense, the individual fruits about j 
4 mm long, about 3.5 mm in diameter, prominently 5-angled, 
5-celled, crowned by the depressed-globose, 5-sulcate stigma. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Pular, Bur. Sci. 19379 Ramos, 
January 15, 1913, altitude about 900 meters, on trees. 
Among the Philippine species nearest to Schefflera oblongifolia Merr., 
but with relatively shorter and broader leaflets which are fewer nerved, 
and with smaller heads. The leaflets are unusually thickly coriaceous. i 
SCHEFFLERA AGAMAE sp. nov. § Euschefflera, Heptapleurum. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 10 m alta; foliis palmatim 7-foliolatis, ' 
foliolis oblongo-ellipticis vel elliptico-ovatis, chartaceis, usque 
ad 15 cm longis, nitidis, breviter abrupte acute acuminatis, basi j 
subacutis, nervis utrinque circiter 5, distantibus, distinctis, in- 
ferioribus adscendentibus, reticulis laxis ; inflorescentiis termina- 
libus, ramis primariis paucis, elongatis, usque ad 40 cm longis, ad 
apicem ramulorum fasciculatis ; fructibus ellipsoideis vel ovoideis, 
4 ad 5 mm longis, leviter sulcatis, umbellatis, umbellis breviter 
pedicellatis, in ramis primariis racemose dispositis. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branches terete, wrinkled 
when dry, pale grayish-brown, about 8 mm in diameter. Leaves 
palmately 7-foliolate, the petioles about 9 cm long, base inflated, 
the stipular part broadly ovate, brown, 1 cm long, coriaceous, 
clasping the stem. Leaflets chartaceous, oblong-elliptic to ellip- 
tic-ovate, somewhat shining, the lower surface slightly paler 
than the upper, 11 to 15 cm long, 6 to 7 cm wide, entire, apex 
abruptly acutely acuminate, base subacute; lateral nerves about 
5 on each side of the midrib, distant, rather distinct, the basal ones 
usually ascending, the reticulations lax ; petiolules 1 to 3 cm long. 
Branchlets extended above the uppermost leaf and bearing sev- 
eral brown, coriaceous, broadly ovate, more or less keeled, some- 
times retuse bracts 1 to 2.5 cm long, similar to the stipules, 
distant or somewhat imbricate. Branches of the inflorescence 
fascicled at the tips of the branchlets, few, elongated, quite 
glabrous, up to 40 cm in length, dark-brown when dry. Fruits 
ovoid or ellipsoid, 4 to 5 mm long, when dry somewhat sulcate, 
5-celled, umbellately disposed, 3 to 7 in each umbel, their pedicels 
2 to 3 mm long, the peduncles of the umbels 3 to 6 mm long; 
