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strongly ascending, pale with brown tips; the 
nearby midrib below with prickles 0.7-1 mm 
long, 4-6 mm apart, arcuate subulate, strongly 
ascending, stramineous; infructescence with a 
solitary, pendent, orange-red, subcylindric syn- 
carp, this 27 cm long, 7 cm in diameter; drupes 
17-18 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, 5-7 mm thick, 
elliptic-oblong, 4— 6-angled, upper % free, apex 
obtuse to the base of the stigma ; pileus 3-4 mm 
high, smooth, shining, shrinking between the 
angles; stigma 2-2.5 mm long, elevated, more 
or less horizontal, brown, papillose, horseshoe- 
shaped because of the two parallel bands of 
hard, pale, stylar tissue that invaginate and 
border the central sinus ; endocarp central, ellip- 
soid, bony, dark reddish-brown, the walls 1-1.2 
mm thick, within smooth, shining ; seed 6-7 mm 
long ; apical mesocarp with strong marginal 
fibers converging to the apex, and within a few 
brown, transverse membranes; basal mesocarp 
fibrous and fleshy. 
holotypus: Papua, D’Entrecasteaux Is., 
Goodenough I., Bolu Bolu, rainforest under- 
growth, 20 m alt, 28 Sept. 1953, L. J. Brass 
24,406 (k). Isotype (a) ! 
specimens examined: Papua, Milne Bay 
Dist., Dabora, Cape Vogel Peninsula, rain 
forest, 30-60 m alt, 8-10 April 1953, L. /. 
Brass 21,906 (k). 
expanded description: Leaves over 2 m 
long, persisting from apex to base of stem, at 
midsection with 47 parallel secondary veins in 
each half, near the apex the pleats serrulate 
above; immature syncarp 6.5 cm in diameter, 
3-angled, pink. 
discussion: The new epithet is the Latin 
adjective marginatus, margined, and is given 
with application to the doubly margined stylar 
sinus. 
