93 



Native names. — Melila (Motu) ; Dedira (Suku) ; 

 Bendora (Binendele) ; Pira (Vailala) ; Eli 

 (Evara, Delta Division) ; Kaboing (Yabim) ; 

 Ombong (Yalu) ; Sabol (Waria) ; Kwila 

 (Rabaul). 



Remarks. — The most sought after timber in 

 Papua. The reason is that it is more durable 

 in the ground than most other woods, and so has 

 been used for house posts, bridges, wharfs, &c, 

 &c. Worked up into furniture it presents the 

 appearance of mahogany, but is decidedly heavier 



6,000 feet 



— spurs of Mt. Obree. 



Locality.— 



Date. — January, 1923. 



Remarks. — In openings in the forest and on 



farm lands. 

 Material Collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



old 



than that cabinet wood. 



It is hard to dis- 



tinguish the timber from the African species, 

 Afz. af vicuna. The counter wood of West 

 Africa and mahogany of Northern Transvaal 

 and Rhodesia, It is similarly gritty to plane, 

 and is therefore not an easy working wood. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, bark, wood. 



Bauhinia Schlechleri Harms, Xo. 793. 



Small to medium tree, 50 feet high. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate; petiole f inch to 

 1^ inches, stout, swollen and wrinkled at both 

 junction with stem and with blade; the blade is 

 ovate to subcordate 4 inches to 7 inches by 3| 

 to 5 inches, six veins arise from base of midribs; 

 glabrous, chartaceous, tapering to rather a blunt 



point. 

 Fruit. — A 



large terminal pod 12 inches to 



18 inches long, terminating in a point, and con- 

 taining 3 or 4 large beans, which, when ripe, 



are mahogany-coloured, and much resemble the 



beans of Entada sp. 

 Bark. — Grey. 

 Wood.— Soft, white. 

 Locality. — Mogendo (Lower Sepik). 

 Date.— 24th July, 1924. 



Native Name. — Kongangle (Sepik). 



Remarks. — The beans are common objects on the 



sea-shore. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, fruit. 



Cassia Barfoni, F. v. M., No. 344. 



A medium tree, 50 feet overall; wide branching; 



Kingiodendron sp. (Dial turn sp.), Nos. 31 8 and 339. 



A large tree, 9 feet in girth, with an 80-ft. bole, 

 and attaining 110 feet in total height. No but- 

 tresses. 



Leaves. — Compound. Stalk If inches to 2 inches, 

 sometimes bearing only one terminal leaflet, but 

 usually a pair of alternate lateral leaflets and a 

 pair of opposite terminal ones. Petiole 5-16th 

 inch, black and stout. Blade 3 to 6 x H to 

 2 inches; lanceolate, acuminate, entire, coria- 

 ceous; midrib yellow. 



Flowers. — Axillary panicles, 4 inches long, of small 

 cream sessile flowers. Several panicles arise 



in one axiL 



Bark. — i inch thick. Dappled green and brown; 

 pustular — the pustules connected by fine lines. 

 Here and there adventitious buds form knobs up 

 to 1 inch diameter. Inner hark streaked mauve 

 and yellow. Solution pinky-yellow, slight pre- 

 cipitate. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined; white, deepening to pale- 

 pink. Pores conspicuous. 



Kays. — 11.5 to K50 fine and 45 to r>0 wider con- 

 spicuous brown rays, l-20th inch deep on quar- 

 ter, with pretty figure. Tores. 1,360 to 1,450, 

 rather evenly distributed in single and radialh 

 septate, 2-3 groups. Soft tissue. mi ' 



centric rings, !) to \'2 to the inch, 

 A pale-yellow wood 



Thin con- 

 General. 



with brown specks and 



streaks due to rays and pores. Stained with a 



gum. Solution wood, colourless. Slight precipi- 

 tate. Cuts soft. )57 lh. per cubic foot. 

 Locality. —Vailala river. 



Date.— December, 1022. 



Native names. — Opopeia C Vailala), also 



Remarks. — Straight-grained; soft to cut. 



Dika. 

 Used 



no buttresses. 

 Leaves. — Compound ; pinnate ; alternate. 



Stalk 



by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for house 



construction. 



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



8 inches to 10 inches, grooved on the upper sur- Maniltoa sp. now, No. 20o. 



face, and covered, with yellow appressed hairs. 

 . Leaflets, 12 to 13 pairs, alternate, subopposite 

 and opposite; no terminal leaflet. Petiole 1-1 0th 

 inch, covered with pale yellow appressed hairs. 

 Blade, 1 inch to If inches long; basal and ter- 

 minal pair are smallest; oblong mueronate mid- 

 rib protruding l-32nd inch as a spine. Pubes- 

 cent below ; glabrescent above. 



Flowers. — Characteristic Cassia type. Petals rose- 

 pink; calyx purple-red; stamens yellow. 



Fruit. — -Cylindrical; dark-brown to black pod up 

 to 20 inches long and f inch in diameter. Shell 

 l-32nd inch thick. The pod is divided trans- 

 versely into a number of compartments, each 

 containing a yellow-brown pea 5-16th x £ inch. 



Bark. — Mottled grey and brown. 



Locality. — Upper Kemp Welch. 4,000 feet. 



Date.— February, 1923. 



Native name. — Gosai (Amie). 



Remarks. — A very ornamental tree. The fruit La 

 used by native women as a rattle in their dances. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, fruit, flowers. 



Large tree, 8- feet in girth, with a bole of 60 feet. 



Large buttresses up to feet. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate, exstipulate. Stalk 

 S inches to Si inches, mueh thickened for \ inch 

 from base; prominent gland in axil. Five pairs 

 of leaflets; opposite; petiole f inch; blade 2\ to 

 4£ x 1-J to 2 ; very asymmetrically elliptical to 

 obovate, acuminate, stiff, rather coriaceous. 

 Dark-green, shiny above, pale glaucous below. 



Twigs and branches covered with small corky 



lenticels. 



Bark. — Grev, covered with small pustules. Inner 



' J— _, — ■ ■» 



bark streaked with yellow. Solution colourless. 

 X < i precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined. Pale-yellow, deepening to 



a light-brown. 

 Flowers.- — Axillary cymes arising from a mass of 



bud bracts. 

 Rayg. — 230 to 250. Yellow. Wavy and sinuous; 



1-fiOtli inch deep 

 quarter. Pores. 



Cassia glauca, No. 351. 



A scrambling leguminous shrub 

 Flowers. — Yellow. 



Show up as yellow lines on 

 2,000 to 2,500 in /ones of 



less and more porous wood; single and radially 

 septate ('>). Soft tissue.— Conspicuous wavy 

 concentric continuous and broken lines, 100 to 

 the inch, link up and surround pores. Much 

 coarser than rays. General. — A yellow-brown 



