85 





Flowers.— Axillary spikes bearing sessile heads of 



white flowers. 

 Locality. — All old farm lands. 

 Date. — Flowers in Buna District in July. 

 Native name. — Gurega (Binandele and Buna). 



Mat 



Leaves and flowers. 



Wedd 



A small tree. 20 feet overall. . 

 Leaves. — Very pale green below. 

 Locality. — Menari, 5,000 feet 

 Date.— February, 1923. 

 Material collected.— 



Old farm lands 



Leaves and flowers. 



Indt., No. 75. 



A medium sizpd tree, 7 feet in girth with a bole 



of 35 feet. Narrow buttresses extending in 



grooves up to the branches. 

 Leaves. — Simple, alternate ; Lanceolate. Armed 



with stinging hairs along midrib and main veins. 

 Bark. — J inch thick; smooth; grey. Inner bark 



yellow. Solution colourless; no precipitate. 



Wood. — -Sap undefined. Pale yellow. 

 Rays. — Conspicuous ; 36 



a 



very coarse rays and 

 very large number of very fine rays too fine to 

 count; 1/10 inch 



squares on quarter. 



deep; showing up as grey 

 Pores. — Conspicuous. The 



wood breaks up so badly as to make pore count- 

 ing difficult. They run about 4,000 to the square 

 inch, are single and spetate (2-4) mostly radi- 

 ally though here and there are septate pores 

 whose division is diagonal and sometimes paral- 

 lel to the rays. Soft tissue. — Conspicuous; 

 abundant in lines tangentially. This tissue rots 

 out leaving the wood proper intact. General. 

 A poor pale soft wood. Solution wood: colour- 



less 



? 



no precipitate. Cuts soft and woolly. 



25 lb. per cubic foot, 

 Locality. — Veimauri. . 

 Date.- 



■— May, 1922. 

 Native name. — Kabo (Motu). 



Remarks. — The leaves of small saplings and seed- 

 lings give one a very painful sting indeed. 

 Material collected. — Wood. 



Pro 



TEACEAE. 



Grcvillea densiflora, No. 420. 





Small tree, 3 feet girth and 40 feet overall. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate; red pubescent bud in 

 axil; petiole 1-1 1 ; blade 9 x 3], elliptical, acute, 

 glabrous, coriaceous. 



Flowers. — Pendant on spikes, 10 inches long, bear- 

 ing an indefinite 1 number of orange flowers. 



• Saisttalaceae. 



S (nit alum sp., 'No. 433a; 



Locality. — About 15 miles east of Port Moresby. 

 Date.- — September. 



Remarks. — I have not seen this tree, and the speci- 

 mens of leaves and flowers were collected by 

 Mr. Gors, in grass lands, about 15 miles east 

 of Port Moresby, in the month of September. 



It is this species that yielded the sandalwood of 

 commerce in which a trade from Papua 

 flourished some twenty years ago. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, and wood. 



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LORANTHACEAE. 



Loranthus navae guineae, No. 790; Loranthus sp., N"os. 



180, 257; Loranthus novae-guineae Bail., No. 

 790; Loranthaceae, No. 132. 



Loranthus novae guineae Bail., No. 790. 



Flowers. — Red tube and green petals. 

 Locality. — Main (middle sepik, 230 miles up). 

 Date.— 19th July. 



Remarks. — Found on an Erythrina, but common 



on a number of trees. ■ 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Loranthus sp., No. 257. 



A common mistletoe. 

 Locality. — Buna. 

 Date. — August. 



Native name. — Masewa. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Loranthus sp., No. ISO. 



A common mistletoe. Parasitical on a number of 

 low-growing shrubs. 



J. eaves. — Simple, opposite; petiole, l inch; blade, 

 up to b' x o\ inches; ovate, obtuse, entire, margin 

 recurved. 



Flowers. — Red and yellow. 



level to an 



Locality. — A Wide range from sea 



altitude of 3,000 feet. 

 Date. — -Flowers in Northern Division in July. 

 Material collected.* — Leaves and flowers. 



J OLYOONACEAE. 



M uhlenheckia plalyclada Meiss, Nos. 363, 551. 





A cactus-like creeper attaining 35 feet up boles 

 of trees in open spaces at 5,000 feet on the 

 O. S. U. and on the Finisterre and Hisniarcks 

 at about the same 1 altitude. It prefers figs. 



Material collected. — Stem, leaves, and flowers. 



Nyctagjnaceak. 



Bark. — Gray, longitudinally lined; pustular. Inner Pisonia Jlrunonia End] (Sj/n. P. umbel I If era), Xo. 128. 



bark pink and white. Solution colourless; no 



precipitate. 

 Wood. — Sap undefined. 

 Rays. — Very 



Protea timber, 

 conspicuous. (1) Coarse 20 to the 

 inch 1/10 inch deep, show up well on quarter. 

 (2) Fine 53 to the inch. Both light brown. 

 Pores. — Clear, 3,000 to 3,500; scattered, septate, 

 more often tangentially than radially; some- 

 times a group of four or five, but usually two. 

 Soft tissue. — Linking up the rays with wavy thin 

 lines hard to see. General. — A pale pinky white 

 wood, characteristic protea grain. Solution, 

 wood, colourless; no precipitate; cuts soft and 

 fairly clean; 43 lb. per 'cubic foot. 



Locality. — Menari, 4,000 feet. Old farm lands. 



Date.— February, 1923, 



Native name. — Sauge (Menari). 



Remarks. — A very ornamental flower,, 



Material collected.— Leaves, flowers, bark, wood. 



Large tree 11 feet girth, a bole up to 35 feet and 

 making 70 feet overall. Not buttressed. Wide 

 branching. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate, gland in axilla; petiole 



1_*3 . 



■2 4 j 



blade 



2-3-J. Lanceolate, acute, 



glabrous, thin. 



Flowers. — Terminal panicles. 



Bark. — Brown smooth except for wrinkles. Less 



than J. inch thick. Inner bark white, turning 

 brown on exposure. 



Wood. — Sap undefined, white. Kays and pores 



invisible to naked eye. 

 Locality. — Aroa. 

 Date. — Flowers in May and June. 



.Yativc name. — Kuve (Suku). 



Remarks. — .V light soft timber, It is readily at- 

 tacked by fungus disease and disintegrated in 

 the course of a month or so. 



Material. — Leaves, wood. 



