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more porous wood. More often septate (2-3) 

 than single. The septum is generally tangen- 

 tical, but may be radial or diagonal. Thus three 

 • pores occur with a radial and half a diagonal 

 or tangential septum. Soft tissue. — Very con- 

 spicuous; white, concentric wavy lines; they 

 are not regularly spaced; sometimes crowded, 

 sometimes more widely separated. Average 55 

 to the inch radius. General. — A white yellow 

 wood showing nice yellow figure on back due 

 to contrast of soft (white) tissue and relatively 

 hard yellow tissue; straight grained. Solution 

 wood, colourless; no precipitate. Cuts hard; 45 

 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality.- — I only found it within a short distance 

 of sea-coast. 



Date. — Flowers in July in the Northern Division. 

 Native name. — Jambo (Buna). 



Ivemarks. — A hard wood. 



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

 bark. 



Pilocarpus in diem Willd., Nos. 4, 210, 587. 



A large tree, average bole, 9 feet x 25 feet, 80 feet 

 over all. One specimen on Vanapa River mea- 

 sured 15f feet x 30 feet of straight bole. Boles 

 of from 30 to 50 feet are met with, but as a 

 general rule this species tends to divide into 

 several large limbs low down ; also it is fre- 

 quently gnarled and twisted, it is more or less 

 spur rooted, but not definitely buttressed. The 

 logs are frequently hollow. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate. Variable in size; 

 in young trees the stalk may attain 12 inches 



Red variety of timber. 



Rays.- — 360, red, fine, sinuous around and broken 

 by pores; hardly show up on quarter. Pores. 

 Conspicuous. A ring pored wood average 183 to 

 the square inch from minimum of 80 to maxi- 

 mum of 800. Whether rings of most porous wood 

 and least porous are seasonal it is hard to say. 

 Variable in size. Single sometimes radially sep- 

 tate (2-3). Soft tissue. — Conspicuous white, 

 wavy, concentric lines 70 to the inch link up 

 small pores. Rings of large pores are free of 

 soft tissue. General. — Concentric rings of red 

 or brown and lighter coloured, which show up on 



cross-section each bounded by single ring of 

 large pores. Solution wood, colourless; dark-red 

 brown precipitate. Cuts soft; weighs 37 lb. to 



the cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Wide-spread from coast to 3,000 feet 

 everywhere. Seldom to be found, except as iso- 

 lated specimens. Flowers in Buna district in 



August. 



Date. 



Nat 



ive 



June and August, 1922. 



Aiamani (Suku), 



names. 



Kalelong 

 (Yabim), Ngafin (Tain), Taoro (Binendeli), 



Saoro (Buna), 



\pa 



(Vailala), Ilaravea 



(Evara), Marava (Motu). 



Remarks. — A very beautiful reddish timber, having 

 all the qualities of rosewood. The natives use 

 it for the making of drums. The Kino is 

 worth investigation, as a very similar Kino de- 



in India forms a 



the same genus 



rived from 

 valuable forest product. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flowers 



bark. 



' 



fruit, wood, 



in length; in full-grown specimens the stalk is Strongylodon lucidus, No. 402. 



3 to 5 inches long, bearing 6 to 8 leaflets, 

 alternate, petiolate, and also one terminal leaf- 

 let. The petioles of the leaflets are about 3-1 6th 

 inch and the blade If to 3 inches x 1-J to 1:1 

 inches. Ovate, acuminate, entire, margin wavy, 

 glabrous, thin. 



Flowers. — Axil! 



to 24 



1 



indies 



long. 



ary racemes 2 

 A few compound, but for the most part single 

 flowers on peduncles 5-1 6th of an 

 Colour yellow; margins of petals fimbriate. 

 Fruit. — Winged orbicular pod 3 inches x 1J 



(Found by llr. Stanley.) 

 Flowers. — A bright orange. 



Fruit. — Not seen. 



Locality, — Junction of Adai and Tnuinu Riven, 

 2,200 feet. 



Date.— February, 1923, 



Remarks. — An exceedingly beautiful creeper, not 

 so striking as the crimson one, but much more 



inch long. 



lovely in a less brilliant way. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



to 



1 



to 



pod 

 If inches, containing one seed. 

 Bark. — Greyish yellow to greenish brown 



7-16th inch thick; scaly, scales papery. Inner 

 bark cream speckled with red kino; exudes red 



kino freely. 

 Wood. — Sap, white to pale yellow, 2 inches thick. 

 Heart, yellow to red-brown. ^ Fragrant, like 

 cedar, but a true rosewood grain. 



White variety of timber. 



R a y S . — 180, white, hard to see, less than l-100th 



inch, deep, faint lines on quarter. Pores. — 

 Conspicuous, 400 to 1,700 in almost non-porous 

 and fairly porous zones; single and radially sep- 

 tate 2-4. They are small in non-porous and 

 large and conspicuous in porous zones. Soft 

 tissue. — Conspicuous; coarse, white, wavy con- 

 centric, unbroken lines, six to the inch in the 

 non-porous wood; they run together when the 

 zone diminishes in breadth. Fine white wavy 

 concentric broken and continuous lines, twelve 

 to the inch, in the porous zones. General — A 

 pale-yellow timber streaked with white, ^ The 

 soft tissue gives it a well-marked back grain, and 

 the same cause makes the quarter grain dull 

 white and shiny yellow in Vertical bands. Solu- 

 tion wood, colourless; no precipitate. Cuts firm 

 to hard; 30 lb. per cubic foot. 



Strongylodon sp., Xo. 652. 



A creeper reaching to the tops of trees, but pre- 

 ferring openings in 

 eaves. — Trifoliate, 



the forest. 



L 



Flowers. — Orange-pink. 



Locality. — Koliu. 



Date.— 



Native 



29th March, 1924. 

 names. — A in warn (Kohu). 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Indt., Xo. 215. 



A medium tree up to 40 feet over all. 



Leaves. 



Compound, opposite. Stalk 9 inches, 



pairs of opposite leaflets and a 

 one; petiole, \ inch; blade 2 to 4 J 



* bearing four 



terminal 



inches x \\ to If inches; lanceolate to ovate; 



more or less asymmetrical, glabrous, thin. 



Fruit. — A pod, 18 inches long. 

 Hark. — One-quarter inch thick ; 



rough, scaly. Inner hark brown, ] inch, 

 tion yellow; light-green precipitate. 



Wood.— Sap undefined; white to pale yellow. 



Locality. — 100 yards from coast, Buna. 



Rays.-— Clear, 300, white, hard to Bee; seem to be 



Very shallow, just visihle on 



quarter as wavy lines. Pores.— 4,000 to 4,500 



grey-brown ; 



Solu- 



fairly straight. 



in more porous wood; 3,000 in less porous wood. 



