234 DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 
c’. Fruit exactly spherical, larger than in the species (6.5 em in 
diameter), yet with a thinner mesocarp (3.5 to 4 mm thick). 
O. palindan var. sibuyanensis. 
b*. Male flowers narrow, linear, 8 mm long, 2 mm broad, or about four 
times as long as broad, having the stamens nearly as long as the 
petals and the anthers very narrowly linear. Fruit spherical, 
smaller than in O. philippinensis, 4.5 to 4.7 em te diameter, the meso- 
carp 3.5) to 4mm ‘thick. 6) 3) aes een ee O. paraguanensis. 
6°. Male flowers narrowly linear. Fruit slightly narrowing to the base, 
or slightly pyriform, considerably smaller than in the preceding 
species, 4 to 4.5 cm long, 35 to 37 mm thick; kernel spherical, 
extended at the base into a broadly obconical blunt point; mesocarp 
relatively thick (38 to 4 mm) and furnished with many short and 
stout woody fibers. Seed about 25 mm in diameter. 3. O. decipiens. 
c’. 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. mindandoensis. 
c. Fruit spherical, not narrowing to the base, 42 mm in diameter; 
mesocarp 4 to.5 mm thick) es 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, 4.5 to 2 mm) thick 2... =. 4. O. rubiginosa. 
ORANIA PALINDAN (Blanco) Merr. (O. philippinensis). (Plate XLII). 
PALINDAN. 
Local names: Ambobdanga (Cagayan) ; banga (Bisaya) ; barangg6i, bunga, 
niogniogan, palinddn (Tagalog). 
This palm, like others of the genus, is sylvan, growing in 
forested valleys at low and medium altitudes. In habit it some- 
what resembles the coconut palm and is decidedly ornamental. 
It reaches a height of 6 meters and a stem diameter of 30 centi- 
meters. Its fruits are globose, hard, and usually about 5 centi- 
meters in diameter. No economic use has been indicated for 
this palm, although in some parts of the Islands it occurs in 
abundance. According to Delgado,* it has poisonous qualities. 
Many of the Philippine palms have edible buds, this portion of 
the palm being known as ubud in the Archipelago. One of the 
Filipino assistants in the Bureau of Science was made violently 
sick by eating the cooked ubud of this species, thus bearing out 
Delgado’s claims regarding the evil properties of the palm. 
Genus OREODOXA Willdenow 
OREODOXA REGIA HBK. (Plate XLIII). ROYAL PALM. 
This species is a native of tropical America and is extensively 
eo as an ornamental in the tropics of ODE ST ns 


a cine Ganenal a Falipaias (1892), page 685. 
