Aglaia agglomerata
Description
Tree 3–32 m, sometimes bearing fruit at 3–5 m; bole up to 19 m, 5–92 cm in diam., with buttresses upwards up to 2.5 m, outwards up to 3 m and 20 cm thick.
Outer bark pale grey, greyish-brown or brown, smooth, with vertical lines of brown lenticels, inner surface yellow; middle bark greenish-yellow to dark red; inner bark yellow or reddish-yellow; sapwood yellow or pink; heartwood dark red or brown, aromatic; latex while.
Leaves im- parbinnate, 20–50 cm long, 22–40 cm wide, obovate in outline; petiole 3–13 cm, peti- ole, rachis and petiolules with numerous to densely covered with scales like those on the twigs.
Flowers 2–2.5 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, subglo- bose; pedicels 0.5–1 mm.
Flowers c. 1.5 mm long and 2 mm wide, depressed globose, fragrant; pedicels 0.5–3 mm.
Petals 5, yellow, aestivation quincuncial.
Petals 5.
Stami- nal tube 0.7 mm long, 1 mm wide, cup-shaped, aperture 1 mm across, the margin shallowly lobed; anthers 5, ovoid, inserted 3/4 up the staminal tube and protruding for 2/3 of their length.
Staminal tube 1.2–1.5 mm long and wide, obovoid or subglobose, the aperture c. 0.7 mm wide, shallowly lobed or dentate, anthers 5, 1/2- 2/3 as long as the tube, sometimes with a few simple hairs, just protruding through the aperture.
The large fruits up to 6.5 by 4 cm, obovoid or ellipsoid, reddish-brown or dull yellow, indehiscent, the pericarp thick, woody and wrinkled, densely covered with pale or reddish-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin on the outside and yellow inside.The small fruits 1.7 cm long, 1.4 cm wide, obovoid, pericarp dull orange, 1–2 mm thick and soft when fresh, brittle when dry, indehiscent; locules 2, each containing one seed.
Seed of the large fruit 1, with a com- plete pale yellow aril. Seeds of the small fruits c. 1.4 cm long, 1 cm across and 0.6 cm thick, with a com- plete translucent orange or white aril less than 1 mm thick and black testa.
Morphology
Aglaia agglomerata has numerous peltate scales on the lower leaflet surface. It resembles A. crassinervia, but the leaflets are more coriaceous and they have a recurved margin.
It is not clear whether the two forms of the fruits described reflect different stages of maturity or whether the plants with infructescences which have many small fruits be- long to a variant distinct from that which has few large fruits.