Schefflera pubigera (Brongn. ex Planch.) Frodin

Schefflera belangeri (Marchal) Harms; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3 8 : 37. 1894.
Sciadophyllum Belangeri Marchal. Bull. Acad. Belg. II. 47: 92. 1879. Actinophyllum Belangeri R. C. Schneid. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 643. 1909.
Shrub or small tree (?), glabrous throughout (except the inflorescences); petioles striate; leaflets about 7, the blades thin-coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, 12-18 cm. long, 6-9 cm. broad, rounded or obtuse at the base, acuminate at the apex (the acumen 1-2 cm. long), entire, thickened and slightly undulate at the margins, the costa and 6-9 arcuate secondary nerves prominent, the veinlets copiously reticulate, prominulous on both surfaces; inflorescences incomplete in our specimen, the branches striate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the bracts ellipticlanceolate, subciliate (according to Marchal), the peduncles about 10 mm. long, with the pedicels sparsely tomentellose, the bractlets apparently deciduous, the pedicels 6-15 per umbel, about 1.5 mm. long; flowers glabrous, the calyx broadly obconic, about 1.5 mm. in diameter, the teeth broadly deltoid, submembranous, acute; petals 5 or 6, submembranous, oblong, about 2.5 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, loosely connate, apparently free at anthesis, the veins 3-5, distinct, parallel, ending in the apex; filaments thin-carnose, 1-2 mm. long, the anthers 1-1.5 mm. long; summit of the ovary short-conic or rounded, carnose, the styles completely fused, suppressed; locules 5 or 6.
Type locality: Martinique.
Distribution: Martinique.