XI, c, 1 Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon 27 
nerves slender; petioles 5 to 8 cm long. Panicles terminal, sub- 
corymbose, nearly flat, branched from the base, densely brown- 
lepidote, the branches few, the lower ones about 6 cm long, the 
upper ones shorter, ascending. Flowers red, 5-merous, short- 
pedicelled, the calyx cup-shaped, brown, sparingly lepidote, about 
4 mm in diameter, the teeth ovate, acute, less than 2 mm long. 
Petals suborbicular, when immature about 2.5 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Lake Polog, Bur. Sci. 23646 Ramos, 
August 28, 1915, in forests. 
A species somewhat resembling Astronia dioica Merr., from which it is 
at once distinguished by its very long petioles, the lamina not at all 
decurrent. 
ARALIACEAE 
BOER LAG I ODEN DRON Harms 
BOERLAGIODEN DRON RAMOSII sp. nov. 
Species B. luzoniense Merr. affinis, differt inflorescentiis par- 
cissime pubescentibus vix paleaceis, pedunculis lateralibus gla- 
bris, ebracteatis. 
An erect shrub 1 m high or more, the ultimate branches 
glabrous, pale, at least 1 cm in diameter. Leaves palmately 
7-lobed, up to 27 cm in length, chartaceous, glabrous, subor- 
bicular in outline, the lobes oblong-obovate, coarsely lyrately 
lobed, distantly and sharply toothed, extending to within 3 to 7 
cm of the base, the sinuses rounded, the lobules of the central 
lobes two or three, of the lower ones one or two, oblong-ovate 
to triangular, acute or shortly and sharply acuminate; petioles 
up to 22 cm in length, the basal part with three or four, spirally 
arranged, coriaceous, narrow, toothed crests. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, 8 to 10 cm long and wide, the peduncle stout, about 2 cm 
long, obscurely paleaceous, the bracts subtending the primary 
branches lanceolate, up to 2 cm in length; primary branches 
about fifteen, 2 to 2.5 cm long, slightly pubescent, not paleaceous, 
each bearing a central, short-peduncled head, and two long- 
peduncled lateral heads. Sterile flowers of the central head 
pedicelled, the pedicels about 5 mm long, glabrous or obscurely 
pubescent, the head subtended by numerous linear to lanceolate 
bracts and bracteoles, 8 to 13 mm in length., about 10 flowers in 
each head, the fruits globose, glabrous, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. 
Peduncles of the lateral heads glabrous, about 2.5 cm long, 
ebracteate, the heads globose, about 1 cm in diameter, dense, 
obscurely pubescent, the flowers 25 to 30 in each head, sessile 
or very shortly pedicelled, about 2 mm long, intermixed with 
few small scales. 
