ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
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length;, respectively; style 1.5 mm long, stigma orb’icular-obovate, 1.4-1. 5 
mm long, 1.3-1. 5 mm wide, obscurely 2-lobed; capsule 4. 2-5.4 cm long, 
its stalk 9-14 mm long, with numerous light-brown ellipsoidal minutely 
punctate seeds 0.8 mm long and 0.3 mm wide; coma whitish, 7-8 mm 
long; peduncles, ovary, and the outer side of the calyx-lobes slightly and 
minutely pubescent. 
Stems somewhat woody, reddish, terete, branched, 40-50 cm high, 4-5 
mm in diameter near the base, minutely and obscurely striate, uniformly 
pubescent with short appressed whitish hairs; leaves opposite or near 
the apex alternate, the lamina linear or very narrowly lanceolate or 
elliptical, 8-22 mm long, 1—5 mm (mostly 2 mm) wide, the margins 
distantly serrate, denticulate, or merely sinuate, rounded, or toothed at 
the apex, at the base gradually narrowed into a slender margined petiole 
1.5-6 mm long, venation obscure except the midrib, but when perceptible 
usually 2 veins on each side of the midrib; both surfaces of the leaf 
slightly pubescent or glabrescent. 
Type collected on damp soil at an elevation of 2,040 m at Pauai, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, by E. D. Merrill, no. Ifthh, in flower and fruit, November 8, 
1905. Also represented by Merrill J/358, base of cliffs at an elevation of 1,770 m, 
Baguio to Ambuklao, also in Benguet, flowers and fruit, October 24, 1905. 
Obviously very closely related to the preceding, but sufficiently distinguished by 
its habit, narrower leaves, longer petioles, smaller flowers and seeds, and other 
characters. 
AEALIACE2E. 
SCHEFFLERA Foist. 
Schefflera williamsii sp. nov. 
Arbuscula; floribus composito-umbellatis, umbellis 8- vel 9-floris, 7- 
meris, foliis alternis, digitatis, glabris, 8- vel 9-foliolatis, oblique angus- 
teque ellipticis, abrupte acuminatis. 
Inflorescence terminal, arising as two diverging branches, each bearing- 
three lateral racemed umbels and three terminal subumbellately ar- 
ranged umbels, total length of inflorescence 7-9 cm, peduncles of indi- 
vidual umbels 12-14 mm, pedicels in the mostly 8- or 9-flowered umbels 
7-8.5 mm long, slender; calyx about 2.5 mm long, triangular, truncate 
at the apex, about 4 mm wide, not articulated rvith the pedicels; petals 
7, valvate, apparently falling together, more or less connate especially 
at the apex, 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, oblong-ovate, bluntly acuminate 
at the apex, sessile on the margin of the calyx-tube ; stamens 7, their 
filaments 1.7 mm long and 1.2 mm wide; ovary extending 1.2 mm 
beyond the calyx, 7-celled, few-ovuled, hemispherical, rounded into the 
style, which is 1.4 mm long, 1.6 mm wide at the base, ridged but not 
divided, truncate at the apex. 
A woody shrub, growing on tree-trunks, with stems 1.2-1. 5 m long 
