SERTULUM BONTOCENSE. 
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16 to 20 cm long, 10 to 13 cm wide, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, 
the apex broadly rounded, the base slightly acuminate or acute; 
nerves 5, prominent, the two lateral pairs leaving the midrib 
shortly above the base; reticulations very lax, or usually entirely 
obsolete; petioles stout, about 2 cm long. Panicles solitary, 
axillary, pendulous, about 40 cm long, the branches more or less 
spreading, in whorls of four branches each, the whorls scattered, 
the primary branches 5 cm long or less, bearing at their apices 
usually four, secondary, umbellately disposed branches, these 
again bearing from two to four shorter tertiary ones. Flowers 
pink, 4-merous, two to four on the ultimate branchlets, the 
pedicels 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx 3 mm long, the limb slightly 
produced. Petals 4, 6 to 7 mm long, 5 to 6 mm wide, very pro- 
minently obliquely obovate, base narrowed. Stamens 8, equal, 
the filaments 3.5 mm long; anthers about 4 mm long, the dorsal 
spur about 0.5 mm long, the anterior appendages short, curved. 
Bracts and bracteoles none or very small. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Banco, Vanoverhergh May, 1910. 
A species well characterized by its opposite, broadly obovate-elliptic or 
elliptic, rounded, 5-plinerved leaves, and especially by its long, pendulous, 
axillary inflorescence. Among the Philippine species it is probably most 
closely allied to Medinilla miiltiflora Merr., but differs from that species 
especially in its larger, quite differently-shaped leaves, more numerous 
nerves, longer petioles, and other characters. 
ARALIACEAE. 
SCHEFFLERA Forst. 
Schefflera albida sp. nov. § Ceplialoschefflera. 
Arbor 4 ad 5 m alta; foliis circiter 13-foliolatis, foliolis 
oblongis, coriaceis, supra glabris, subtus densissime et minutf^ 
stellato-pubeseentibus, indumento albido vel subflavido, basi 
rotundatis, apice breviter acuminatis; capitulis racemoso-dis- 
positis, numerosis, circiter 1.5 cm diametro, globosis; fructibus 6- 
locellatis. 
A tree 4 to 5 m high. Leaflets about 13, their petiolules 4 to 
8 cm long, the blades oblong, coriaceous, 16 to 25 cm long, 6 to 
9 cm wide, the upper surface glabrous, somewhat shining, dark- 
brown when dry, the lower surface very densely covered with 
white or pale-yellowish, very short, stellate hairs.. Inflorescence 
terminal, the racemes racemosely arranged up to 20 cm in length, 
the heads numerous, in fruit globose, about 1.5 cm in diameter, 
their peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm long, the inflorescence somewhat 
furfuraceous, becoming nearly glabrous. Flowers unknown. 
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