SPECIES PLANTARUM — FLORA OF THE WORLD (2003) 3. Parastemon grandifructus Prance, Brittonia 39: 366 (1987) T: Borneo: Sarawak, Ulu Medanit, Limbany, 5 th Division, E.Wright & O.Ismawi S. 532320; holo: L. Illustration: G.T.Prance, Brittonia 39: 367 (1987). Map: G.T.Prance, Fl. Males. Ser. 1, 10(4): 650 (1989). Tree to 30 m tall. Branches glabrous when young; trunk lightly buttressed to 1 m. Leaves with stipules caducous (not seen); petioles 5–8 mm long, glabrous, slightly canaliculate, slightly swollen at base; lamina coriaceous, narrowly oblong, 5–8.5 × 1.8–3.2 cm, with long cuspidate acumen at apex with tip 10–16 mm long, cuneate at base, glabrous on both surfaces; midrib prominent above, prominulous or plane beneath; primary veins 5 or 6 pairs, prominulous above, plane beneath. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal racemes; rachis glabrous. Flowers seen only in fruiting specimens. Calyx lobes 5, acute, glabrous on exterior, glabrous within except for a few hairs around base. Receptacle glabrous on exterior in fruiting condition. Style persistent below fruit; stigma bifid or trifid. Fruit ellipsoid, 2.3–3.5 × 1.3–1.5 cm, epicarp smooth, glabrous; mesocarp thin, 0.25 mm thick; endocarp thin, hard, bony, 0.25 mm thick, glabrous within. Borneo (Sarawak and Sabah). 42: BOR. Upland white sand areas. Map 236. 42. BORNEO: Sabah, Weston Dist., Hs. Sianggau, RA. AG. Amin SAN105968 & SAN105969 (K, L); Sarawak, Ulu Medamit, Limbang, 5 th Div., I.Paie S32320 (K, L, SAN); Sarawak, summit of Bungoh Range, Bau, I.Paie & J.D.Mamit S29032 (A, K, L); Sarawak, 3 rd Div. Kapit Distr., left bank of Rajang R., 10 km below Belaga, M.Jacobs 5415 (K, L, SAR). 6. BAFODEYA Bafodeya Prance ex F.White, Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 46: 271 (1976). The name comes from the Bafodeya Hills, the type locality. Type: Bafodeya benna (Scott-Elliot) Prance Trees, small. Leaves appearing eglandular on herbarium specimens; stipules small, deltate; lower surface of lamina with small stomatal crypts filled with densely matted hairs. Inflorescence a terminal cymose panicle. Bracts and bracteoles small, eglandular, not enclosing the flower buds. Flowers bisexual, markedly zygomorphic; flower-buds sigmoid. Receptacle-tube curved, obliquely campanulate, much swollen on 1 side, markedly oblique at throat, hairy inside throughout, with throat blocked by long retrorse hairs. Sepals 5, acute, unequal in size. Petals 5, about as long as sepals, caducous. Stamens c. 7; filaments white, more or less equalling sepals, slightly curved in bud and during anthesis, laterally expanded at the base; staminodes 4–10, claviform, fleshy, variable in length but some almost as long as filaments. Ovary monocarpellary, 2-locular, inserted laterally just below mouth of receptacletube; style arcuate, included. Drupe somewhat dry; epicarp sparsely verrucose; endocarp hard, smooth, without basal obturators. Comprising a single species from West Africa. F.White, Distrib. Pl. African. 10: 282 (1976); G.T.Prance & F.White, The genera of Chrysobalanaceae, Philos. Trans. B 320: 98–100 (1988). Bafodeya benna (Scott-Elliot) Prance, Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 46: 271 (1976) Parinari benna Scott-Elliot, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 30: 78 (1894), as Parinarium benna. T: Sierra Leone: Bafodeya Hills, 6 miles [c. 9.5 km] N of Kundita, G.F.Scott-Elliot 5480; holo: K; iso: BM, P. Illustration: G.T.Prance & F.White, Philos. Trans. B 320: 99 (1988). Map: F.White, Distrib. Pl. African. 10: 282 (1976). Shrub or small tree to 10 m tall. Branches tomentellous, glabrescent, lenticellate when young. Leaves with stipules 2–3 mm long, linear to deltate, caducous; petioles 3–5 mm long, terete, tomentose; lamina oblong to elliptic, coriaceous, 5–14 × 3–8 cm, bluntly acute, rounded or retuse at apex, subcordate to cuneate at base, with sparse appressed hairs above when young, 180
CHRYSOBALANACEAE (Bafodeya) Figure 36. Bafodeya benna. A, habit; B, flower bud; C, 1 /2 flower; D, petal; E, fruit; F, section of exocarp; G, endocarp; H, fruit section (A–B, F.C.Deighton 5445; C–F, H, A.Chevalier 13068; G, R.A.Schnell 6807). Scale bars: A = 5 cm; B–D = 5 mm; E–H = 2 cm. Drawn by Rosemary Wise. Previously published in G.T.Prance & F.White, Philos. Trans. B 320: 99 (1988). 181
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