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Leaves. — Compound opposite. Racliis 2^ inches Albizzia procera, Benth, Xo. 607. 



bearing 1 to 3 pairs of opposite leaflets and a 

 terminal one. Leaflets are sessile except termi- 

 nal which have i inch petiole. The blade is 

 2 to 3J by -J to li inches; the margin is very 

 regularly serrate. In shape the blade is lanceo- 

 late obovate and even elliptical, it is glabrous 

 and thin. 

 Flowers. — Axillary panicles of white flowers 



crowded at end of branchlets. 

 Bark. — \ inch thick, red-brown; scaley to shaggy, 

 pustular. Liner bark brown spotted with yel- 

 low pustules. 



Sap 1 inch yellow deepening through pink 



240 to 250 



Wood 



to red. Axes firmly. 



Lays. 



of 



which 80 are coarse and distinct and 160-170 



and 



around 



pores. 

 Pores. 



Indistinct. 



are inconspicuous and sinuous 



Show up little on longitudinal sections. 



14,500, single, crowded between 

 rays, sometimes appear to be tangentially sep- 

 tate. Soft tissue.— Invisible. General. — A red- 

 dish dense wood cuts hard and has little grain. 

 "Weighs 45 lb. to the cubic foot. 



Locality. — Likdin. 



Date.— August, 1924. 



Native name. — Kulan (Likdin). 



Materia] collected. — Leaves, bark, wood, flowers. 



Legi'minosae J\I i tnosoideae. 



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Adenanthera pavonina, Nos. 174, 316; Albizzia sp., 



Nos. 26, 263, 432; Albizzia procera, No. 607; 



Archidendron sp. affin. A. chrysocarpum Laut. 

 et. K.Scli., No. 399; Serianthes sp. nr. S. grandi- 

 flora Benth, No. 649. 



Adenanthera pavonina, Linn., Nos. 174, 316. 



Medium tree, 5 feet in girth, 30 feet of bole, and 



80 feet overall. 

 Leaves. — Biconipound, subopposite, main stalk 12 

 inches long; secondary stalk subopposite, 4-1 

 inches, bearing leaflets. Leaflets alternate, ex- 

 stipulate; petiole 1-16; blade 1} by 9-16 inches. 



Flowers. — Axillary spikes bearing a 



large 



num- 



ber of shortly pedune 



A 



Fruit. 



A legume, 4 to 5 inches long, curls up 



>. 



on drying and contains flattened obovoid seeds, 

 7-10 by 5-16 inches, red with a black spot at end. 



Wood. — Sap, 2 inches, pale yellow. Heart a fine 

 saffron colour streaked with brown. 



R a y S . — 400; yellow; very fine indeed, very sinu- 

 ous to get around large pores or broken by them, 

 very shallow indeed; just visible as minute 

 specks on quarter. Pores. — Conspicuous in 

 porous and almost non-porous zones; the latter 

 carry as few as 600 pores, and the former up 

 to 1,500. Filled with red deposit. Soft tissue. 

 — Concentric thin, usually double, lines, about 

 eight to the inch, but they vary in spacing dis- 

 tance. They are not wavy like ordinary wavy 

 soft tissue, but undulate in wide sweeping curves. 

 General. — A very pretty golden wood with 

 mauve red pore streaks. Solution wood, colour- 

 less; faint blue precipitate. Cuts hard; 37 lb. 



per cubic foot. 

 Bark. — Grey-brown, finely longitudinally lined, 



red just below the surface. Inner bark yellow. 

 Locality. — Buna district. 

 Date. — Flowers in July, Buna district. 

 Native names. — Gigino (Buna). 

 Remarks. — A good cabinet wood. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, legume, seeds. 



wood, bark. 

 F.12389.— 7 



A small tree with a girth of 3 feet and a bole of 

 20 feet and 35 feet overall. 



Leayes. — -Bi-conipound. 



Primary : — Alternate, 



rachis 10 inches to 12 inches, bearing five pairs 

 of opposite secondary leaflets whose stalks are 

 3 inches to 6 inches long, and carry nine pairs 



of opposite leaflets. Petioles, 



10 



inch; blade, 



| to 1|- inches x \ to fa inch; glabrous, thin, 

 oblique, obovate, obtuse, notched at apex, 



Flowers. — White axillary. 



Fruit. — A pod 4 inches long, and thin. 



Bark. — Smooth, thin, plane-like, shiny. 



Localitv. — Yalu. 



Date. — December, 1923. 



Xative name. — Minzimb (Yalu). 



Remarks. — A treelet that springs up in grass lands 

 of the Markham, and is to be found in any 

 clearing in the forest and in villages. 



M 



Leaves, flowers, fruit. 



. llbizzia sp., Xo. 26. 



A large 1 tree, 8 feet in girth, and a bole of GO feet 

 and 100 feet overall; no buttresses. 



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Leaves. — Hi-compound. Primary stalk alternate; 

 6 inches long (a gland ] inch from base) bearing 

 six pairs of snb-opposite and opposite leaflets. 

 Secondary stalks 1 \ to 2 inches long, which in 



turn bear about seven pairs of apposite leaflets; 



these an; sessile oblong, \ inch to } inch long; 



lanceolate, obtuse, deciduous. 



Fruit.- A thin pod, 4^ inches 



lonir. containing 



^' 



thirteen to fifteen seeds. 



Bark. — | inch thick, grey to very dark brown. 

 .Inner hark yellow. Solution colourless. 



No 



precipitate. 



Rajs. — Rays 150, very slightly undulat 



usually broken 

 brown. Pores, 



1 



)V 



11 



e hut 



to yellow 



L500 



to 



f 



single 



pores; yenow 

 Conspicuous ; from 

 3,000 in openlv and closely sown 

 and septate (2). Soft tissue. — Conspicuous; 

 surrounds pores and links them up in groups 

 of two to five; here and there very fine con- 

 centric lines, they run from seven to ten to the 

 inch. General. — A yellow to yellow-brown wood ; 



solution wood, colourless; dark-green precipi- 

 tate. Cuts hard and (dean; 51 lb. to cubic foot. 



a 



Wood. — Sap pale yellow; 3| inches thick; heart 



a very dark brown. 

 Locality. — Foothills behind 



Veimauri. It is 



timber. 



very common in the dry belt from (J alley Reach 



to Rigo. 

 Date.— May, 1922. 

 Xative names. — Mokeke (Motu) ; Berekeke 



(Suku) ; (ieinona (Buna). 



Remarks. — A hard interlocked grained 



Useful for house posts. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, \vood, and hark. 



Albizzia fulva, White A; Francis ined., Xo. 20:5. 



Very large tree, L3 feet girth and 150 feet high, 



with an 80 feet hole. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate, stipulate, pinnate. 

 Stalk 9 inches. Secondary stalk 1 \ to 4 inches. 

 Leaflets opposite, sessile; blade fa x fa inches. 



Asymmetrical ; glabrous; obtuse, 



Flowers. — Axillary panicles, white. 



Fruit. — A thin pod, 5 inches long and \ inch wide. 



Bark. — (irey, pustular; otherwise smooth. Solu- 

 tion colourless; cloudy brown precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined; pah* yellow darkening to 

 deep yellow. 



