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relatively thick (3 to 4 mm) and furnished with many short and 
stout woody fibers. Seed about 25mm in diameter.. 3. O. decipiens. 
ce. Fruit smaller than in the species (837 mm long, 31 to 32 mm thick), 
but always more or less narrowing to the base; mesocarp also 
thinner (2.5 mm thick)................ O. decipiens var. mindanaoensis. 
¢. Fruit spherical, not narrowing to the base, 42 mm in diameter; 
mesocarp 4 to 5 mm thick. O. decipiens var. montana. 
a?. Floriferous branches more or less permanently rusty-tomentose. Male 
flowers very narrow and long, 1 cm long, 2 to 3 mm broad. Female 
flowers pyramidate-trigonous, acuminate, twice as long as broad, calyx 
campanulate. Fruit subpyriform, 40 to 45 mm long, 30 to 38 mm 
thick; mesocarp thin, 1.5 to 2 mm [Act Sepieoeteroy Romer ert 3 4. O. rubiginosa. 
1. ORANIA PHILIPPINENSIS Scheff. ex Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit, 2 
(1885) 156, t. 14; Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 335. 
Orania Palindan Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 88, Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 32. 
Palindan Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 444 (partly ?). | 
Caryota Palindan Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 518 ? 
Luzon, Bataan Province, Mount Mariveles, For. Bur. 1610 Borden, this 
number with mature spherical fruits agreeing entirely with Scheffer’s 
typical specimens: Tayabas Province, For. Bur. 10410 Curran, fruit slightly 
smaller than in Borden’s specimen and slightly narrowed below, 5.3 cm 
long, 4.5 em thick: Laguna Province, Calauan, Bur. Sci. 12391 McGregor: 
Zambales Province, For. Bur. 8413 Curran & Merritt: Cagayan Province, 
For. Bur. 17068 Curran; the last three specimens have immature fruits. 
ORANIA PHILIPPINENSIS Scheff. var. SIBUYANENSIS Bece. var. nov. 
SipuyANn, along Patao River, Mount Giting-Giting, Elmer 12066, local 
name banga. 
A tree about 5 m high, the stem 12 cm in diameter. Spadix 
about 1.50 m long; one spathe, persistent and coriaceous, is 
1.40 m long, lanceolate, 5 cm broad, slightly rusty-furfuraceous 
outside. Fruit of a citron-yellow color. 
2. ORANIA PARAGUANENSIS Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 335. 
: PaLAWAN (Paragua), Taytay, Merrill 9269, Merrill Phil. Pl. 1816; 
Separation Point, Merrill 869 (type specimen). 
This is the representative in Palawan of O. philippinensis and 
perhaps should be considered as a variety of that species. It 
was first described by me from incomplete specimens, the fruits 
attached on very thick (perhaps abnormal?) branchlets (Mer- 
rill 869). Other specimens subsequently collected also by Mer- 
rill in Palawan at Taytay (1316 and 9269) have floriferous 
branches not differing from those of the typical O. philippi- 
nensis from Luzon, but have the male flowers much narrower 
than in that form, linear, 8 mm long, 2 mm thick, with stamens 
as long as the petals, and very narrowly linear anthers. The 
fruits are somewhat smaller than in the Luzon plant, 45 to 
47 mm in diameter, with the mesocarp 3.5 to 4 mm thick. 
