Additaipentum. 1493 



apicem versus puberulis, disco crasso glabro, staminibus 5 — 7 sepalis aequilongis, 

 filamentis brevibus subulatis glabris, antheris cordiformibus basifixis papillosis, germine 

 2-loculari rubiginoso-piloso, stylo brevi apice sulco suturali stigmatoso utrinque notato, 

 ovulis in quoque loculo singulis, fructibus . . .<< 



Eromanga: Dillon Bay, sea level, rain-forest, common, Kajewski n. 335, 

 May 29, 1928 (large tree up to 18 m high; fruit eaten by natives who relish it). — 

 Vernacular name >>Tow<<. 



>>Though this species resembles in its aspect much an Erioglossum, it will have to 

 be referred to the genus Aphania.<< 



P. 775 adde: 



Otophora edulis G. E. G. Fischer in Kew Bull. (1932) 178. — »O. amplifoliae Pierre 

 similis, sed foliolis numerosioribus linearibus sessilibus, fructuque majore.« 



>>A small tree, with angled, glabrous twigs. Leaves membranous, glabrous, crowded 

 at the ends of the twigs, sessile, paripinnate; rhachis 20 — 30 cm long, acutely quadrangu- 

 lar, the lateral edges with reticulately veined wings 2 — 3 mm wide throughout, very 

 shortly produced beyond the terminal leaflets, the wings narrowed at the Insertion of 

 the leaflets, base widened and subamplexicaul. Leaflets 9 — 10 pairs, including the 

 basal stipuliform pair which are broadly ovate or subcircular, acute, 0,8 — 1 cm long, 

 the next pair 5 — 8 cm distant with intervals of about 2 — 5 cm between all the rest, 

 opposite or alternate, sessile with a broad rugulose attachment to the rhachis, linear, 

 tapering to a blunt apex, abruptly narrowed to a rounded, inequilateral base, 8 — 16 cm 

 long, 1,5 — 2 cm wide, midrib sharply prominent on both sides, primary lateral nerves 

 about 22, hardly more distinct than the secondary, ultimate reticulations fine. In- 

 florescence a much-branched open panicle, up to 40 cm long; rhachis brown, minutely 

 puberulous, the branches angled and densely fuscous-puberulous towards the extremities; 

 flowers fascicled; bracts minute, naripowly lanceolate, deciduous; pedicels slender, 

 6 — 8 mm long, puberulous. Sepals 5, subcoriaceous, obtuse, the 2 outer ovate to 

 rotund, the 3 inner broadly oblong with sub-hyahne margins, 3,5 — 5 mm long, the 

 outermost smallest, increasing in size inwards, glabrous or sparsely puberulous at the 

 base. Petals 6 — 7, orbicular, margins erose, infolded at the base and simulating scales, 

 2,6 — 4 mm long, slightly pubescent outside at the base and up to the centre. Diso 

 fleshy, annular, short, mouth 8 — 9-crenate. Stamens 8 — 9, inserted on the edge of the 

 disc; filaments flat, 0,7 mm long, white-hairy in the upper half; anthers oblong, 1 mm 

 long. Ovary depressed-globose, sulcate opposite the anthers, 1,8 mm long, glabrous, 

 3-celled; style short, stout; stigma peltate, 2,5 mm diam., faintly 3-lobed, glabrous. 

 Fruit subglobose to obovoid, 3,5 cm long, brown when dry; stalk stout, woody. Seed 

 fleshy, oblong, 2,5 cm long, 1,3 cm diam., basal areola large, slightly obhque.« 



In Borneo: »Banks of the Segama Rivef, 310 ft., fl. and fr. Jan., F. Orolfo in 

 Herb. For. Dept. n.l319. ,Tree 20 ft. high and 3 in. diam.; fl. reddish; seeds eaten 

 by the local people'.<< 



Otophora grandifoliola Quisumbing et Merrill in Phihpp. Journ. Sc. XXXVII. 

 (1928) 163. — »Frutex glaber; foliis circiter 65 cm longis, foliolis 6 — 8, subcoriaceis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 34 cm longis, 10,5 cm latis, nitidis, subacutis, basi cuneatis, 

 nervis primariis utrinque 9 — 12, perspicuis; stipulis suborbiculari-ovatis, subcoriaceis, 

 inaequilaterahbus, usque ad 6 cm longis; inflorescentiis paniculatis, pyramidatis, usque 

 ad 36 cm longis, ramis paucis vel numerosis, inferioribus usque ad 12 cm longis; floribus 

 pedicellatis, 4-meris, sepalis 4 — 4,5 mm longis; petalis suborbicularibus, circiter 3,5 mm 

 longis; fructibus junioribus ellipsoideis, in siccitate rubro-brunneis, circiter 0,8 cm 

 diametro.<< 



>>A glabrous shrub, 3 — 4 m high. Branches terete, brownish or grayish, lenti- 

 cellate. Leaflets 26 — 34 cm long, 7 — 10,5 cm wide, or the basal ones sometimes smaller 

 up to 19 cm by 5 cm, when dry pale or brown above, light brown beneath; primary 



