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3. ORANIA DECIPIENS Bece. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 614. 
Minporo, Bongabong River, at about 70 meters above the sea level, 
For. Bur. 4120 Merritt, Tagalog and Visayan name banga. ; 
This is distinguishable by its relatively small fruit, yet having 
a thick mesocarp. In the size and the shape of the fruit O. de- 
cipiens could be mistaken for O. macrocladus, and among the 
Philippine species, for O. rubiginosa, but in these the mesocarp 
is rather thin, whereas it is relatively very thick in O. decipiens. 
ORANIA DECIPIENS Becc, var. MINDANAOENSIS Bece. var. nov. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9179 Whitford & 
Hutchinson. 
Fruit a little smaller than in the species, 37 mm long, 31 to 
32 mm thick, slightly narrowing to the base; mesocarp 2.5 mm 
thick. 
ORANIA DECIPIENS Becc. var. MONTANA Bece. var. nov. 
MINDANAO, Davao District, Mount Apo, at about 1,000 meters’ altitude, 
Elmer 11881: Agusan Province, Cabadbaran (Mount Urdaneta), at about 
830 meters’ altitude, Elmer 13970. 
The fruit is exactly spherical or else slightly broader than high, 
42 mm in diameter; mesocarp 4 to 5 mm thick. In Elmer 13970 
the male flowers are very narrowly linear, 7 to 9 mm long, 2 mm 
broad. 
4. ORANIA RUBIGINOSA Becc. sp. nov. 
Frondium rachi et spadicis parte axilli et ramis ferrugineo- 
scrophulosis; floribus masculis angustissimis, 1 cm _ longis; 
floribus foemineis trigono-pyramidatis, acuminatis; fructibus 
globoso-subpyriformibus, quam in O. philippinensi minoribus, 
mesocarpio tenui (1.5 ad 2 mm spisso). 
Apparently a smaller plant than Orania philippinensis, 6 to 
8 m high, the stem 10 to 15 cm in diameter, the leaves also 
smaller and with fewer and narrower leaflets, the latter about 30 
on each side of the rachis. Base of the leaves and rachis covered, 
especially underneath, with a rusty, very appressed indumen- 
tum, evanescent in age. The leaflets have on each side of the 
midrib 2 or 3 very strong secondary nerves, especially prominent 
on the lower surface near the base; the intermediate segments 
are 60 to 70 cm long and 3.5 to 4 cm broad, very obliquely 
truncate, and erose-toothed at the apex, and prolonged along the 
upper margin into a somewhat elongated point; in the upper 
leaflets the apex is truncate, irregularly lobulate and erose- 
toothed; the lower surface is as usual whitish and is, further- 
more, sprinkled, especially in newly expanded leaves, with minute 
rusty scales (microlepidia), and has the upper margin marked by 
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