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Demi rob him bilame! latum Rogers, No. 408. 



Epiphyte of the mossy forests. 

 Flowers. — Dark mauve main labium with orange 



radial chains. 



Soft tissue.— Fine ladder rungs 



tip; rest mauve. 

 Locality. — Between Adai and Naro in 



forests; 7,800 feet. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



mossy 



Epiblaxtus tuberculatum Rogers, No. 373. 



A red-ground orchid. 



Locality. — 6,400 feet on Owen Stanley 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Range 



Oberonia oblonga Rogers No. 414. 



Orchid. Epiphyte. 



Flowers. — Pendant spikes of minute brown flowers. 



Locality. — Between Adai and iSTaro. 6,000 feet. 



Date.— February, 1923. 



Remarks. — Very scarce; only one plant seen. 



Material collected. — Leaves and one flower. 



Phalaenopsis amabills Bl. var. Papuana Sehlt., No. 



connecting up rays, about 100 to the inch. 

 General.— A pale yellow timber, with strong 

 bold figure; solution wood, colourless, green 

 precipitate; cuts hard, and the sections curl up 

 and are difficult to examine; 70 lb. per cubic 



foot. 



Locality. — Between Menari and Efogi, at an alti- 

 tude of between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. On one 

 side of a hill it is growing in grass lands in 

 association with Euc. tereticornis, on the other 

 it is buried in a rain forest-clothed ravine. It 

 has a wide range all through the uplands of 

 both Territories, As much at home on Upper 

 Ramu as Upper Purari. 



Material collected.— Leaves with fruits attached, 



bark, wood. 



PlPERAC 



The 



807. 



Orchid epiphyte on a Pometia. 

 Flowers. — White, 3^- inches across. 



orchid I have seen in the Territory. 

 Locality. — Kundam. 

 Date.— 26th August. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, roots. 



Spaihoglottis Lane-Poolei Rogers, ISTo. 249. 



Epiphytic on fallen sago in Fmbi Lake. 



largest 



Piper sp., No. 545. 



Small tree, 15 feet high. 

 Locality. — Nomi River, 5,000 feet. 



Date. — 23rd November. 



Remarks. — A common undergrowth in damp places. 

 It has a wide range, from sea-level to 6,000 

 feet. The natives prefer the climbing Piper to 

 this one as a betel pepper. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flowers. 



Pagaceae. 



Quercus Junghuhnii Miq., Nos. 219, 427, 570; Quercus 



lamponga Miq., Nos. 418, 585; Quercus pseudo- 

 molucca BL, Nos. 228, 117; Quercus spicata 

 Smith, var. depressa King, Nos. 270, 425, 582. 



Main flower axis 4 feet high, apparently mono- Quercus Junghuhnii, Nos. 219, 427, 570. 



podium ; woody. 

 Leaves.— 4 ft. 6 in. x 3 inches. 



Date.— August, 1922. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, fruits, roots. 



Orchid epiphyte, Indt., No. 526. 



Flowers. — Pitcher shaped, red hase and yellow lip. 

 Locality. — Xomi-Ake divide. Sarawaket, 7,000 



feet. 

 Date. — 23rd November. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, roots, flowers. 



Indt., No. 529. 



A ground orchid. 



Flower*. — Purple. 



Locality. — Edge of limestone precipice above Nomi 



River, 7,000 feet. 



Date. — 23rd November. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Indt., No. 262. 



A ground orchid. 



Locality. — 5,000 to 6,000 feet, Owen Stanley Range 



on trail from Kokoda to Gap. 

 Date. — Flowers in August. 

 Materia] collected. — Plant with flowers. 



Medium tree, 6i feet girth and 50 feet bole. No 

 buttresses, but base of trunk often grooved and 

 sometimes surrounded by a skirt of stool shoots. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate. Petiole, -| inch; blade, 

 2i to 5^ inches x § to lj inches. Very acumi- 

 nate. Broadly serrate for half length from tip. 

 Green, shiny above, glaucous, with coppery tint 

 below. Midribs, prominent, yellow. Veins, 

 distinct, glaubrous, and more or less coriaceous. 

 Twig covered with lenticels. 



Flowers. — Erect axillary at end of branchlets. 

 Fruit. — -A green, silky, scaly (scales projecting 



l-10th inch) cupule, which splits down and 

 allows a conical brown nut to emerge. The nut 

 is covered with a felt of fine brown hairs f inch 

 by 5-1 6 rh inch diameter. Within, it is silken 



coated. 



Bark. — Grey. Partly flatly ridged, partly longi- 

 tudinally lined. Inner bark cinnamon-brown, 

 traversed by wide medullary rays. Solution, 

 tawny; strong blue precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined ; yellow-brown, darkening 



to brown. 



Kays. 



Coarse and fine. There 



—Very conspicuous, 

 are seven coarse, which are really bundles 



of 



Casuakinae. 

 Casvarina nodiflorvm, No. 426. 



A medium tree, 7 feet girth, 35 feet bole, 65 feet 

 overall; no buttresses. 



Leaves. — Characteristic casuarina leaf. 



Fruit. — Characteristic casuarina fruit. 



Bark. — Solution rose green precipitate. 



Wood Rays. — Very conspicuous. (1) Coarse, 8, 

 light brown; these are up to l-40th inch wide and 

 7-10th inch deep ; show up as loud silver grain 

 on quarter and lozenges on back. (2) Fine, 200 

 to the inch. Pores. — Clear, 500 to 1,000 single, 

 irregularly, scattered, and in short sinuous 



twelve to twenty fine ones. These are up to 

 l-20th inch broad and up to f inch deep; quite 



straight. 



Show up as 

 The fine ones 



loud silver grain on 

 are most irregular in 



quarter. 



distance apart; 300 to 450 to the inch, about 

 1-1 20th inch deep, and they 

 rippling lines on quarter. Pores. 



to 



ne 



3,000 



3,000, 



arranged m 



show up as fi 

 Conspicuous, 



chains radially, 

 single, variable in size; immersed in soft tissue. 

 .Soft tissue. — Conspicuous ; ladder rungs, very 

 fine, connect up the coarse rays about 130 to 

 the inch; also surrounds pores. General. — A 

 mouse-coloured oak wood, fissile on the quarter. 

 Solution wood; very pale yellow; copper pre 

 ci pit ate. Cuts hard. 48 lb. per cubic foot. 



