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Bark. — £ inch thick; grey, scaly, shedding clean 

 and leaving surface more or less smooth, but 

 pustular. Inner bark red-brown. Solution 

 orange; precipitate present. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined, about 3 inches, pinky- 

 yellow. Heart pink. 



Kays. — 120 to 140 to the inch ; wavy, hard to see 

 or count, consists much the same colour as wood 

 on cross section, on radial l-50th inch deep, 

 show up well as dark-brown specks. Pores. — 



a few 

 Soft 



Clear; 3,500 



to 4,500; mostly single, 



radially septate (2) ; scattered evenly. 



tissue. — Absent. General. — A mouse-brown wood 



with a pretty grain. Solution wood, orange; 



precipitate present. 

 per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Vailala. 



Cuts a little hard; 34 11 



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January. 



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1923. 



Native name.- — Mahei (Vailala). 



Remarks. — A hard wood. 



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



Canarium Mahiense Lautb, No. 244. 



A large tree, 8 feet in girth, SO feet bole, and 110 



feet overall. No buttresses. 

 Leaves. — Compound, alternate; stalk 5 to 5j inches, 



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swollen at base to 1 



to 





4 inch diameter, otherwise 

 ;i inch; covered with brown lenticels. Leaflets, 

 two pairs and a terminal; rarely three pairs; 

 lateral leaflets simple, opposite; petiole : | 

 1 inch; lower pair 3| to 5 inches x I4 to 2| 



inches; upper pair, 5 to 1\ inches x 2 to 3 inches. 

 Terminal one; petiole 1\ to 2 inches; blad 



1 ^ 03 Jncheg All leaflets 



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5 to 7^ inches x 2| to 3 S 

 acuminate, coriaceous; midrib and veins yellow, 

 and very prominent and pubescent below; petiole 

 much swollen at junction with blade. Stalk 

 swollen where upper and terminal leaflets join. 



Flo 



wers. — Axillary cyniose panicles, 6 inches to 



9 inches long of heads of 2 to 4 sessile flowers. 



Bark— | inch thick. Grey, splashed here and 

 there with yellow. Smooth except for abundant 

 small corky pustules. Exudes a fragrant resin 

 from the cambium layer. Inner bark yellow- 

 brown. Solution tinged with pink. Muddy- 

 brown precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined, white to yellow. 



Kays.— -160 to 170. Keddish-brown. Very sinuous 



around pores and very broken. l-100th inch 



. deep; show up as specks on quarter. Pores. 



Clear. 6,000 to 6,500. Single and radially 



septate (2). Soft tissue.- — Absent. General. — 



A pinky-brown wood, with a straight gram. 



Solution wood colourless; no precipitate. Cuts 



firm to hard; 37 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Hydrographer's. 

 Date. — Flowers in August. 

 Remarks. — A straight-grained sound medium hard 



wood. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, wood. 



Tndt. 560. 



A small tree, 25 feet high. 



Leaves. — Trifoliate. 



Flowers. — White with yellow anthers. 



Local it 



v. 



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Ogeramnang. 



Date. — November, V.)23. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flowers. 



Garuga sp., Xo. 207. 



A large tree, with a girth of 8£ feet, a bole of 

 60 feet, and reaching 100 feet overall. Medium 

 buttresses up to 8 feet. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate. Stalk up to 16 

 inches long, bearing about twelve opposite and 

 sub-opposite leaflets. Petiole 1 to 3-16th 

 inch; blade, small in leaflets at base of stalk 1\ 

 to § inches, and increases in size up the stalk to 

 6] x 2 inches; margin more or less serrate. Here 

 again the serration is very well defined in sucker 

 leaves; also this type of leaf is pubescent. In 

 leaves from mature trees the serration is not well 

 defined, and the surface is glabrous. The termi- 

 nal leaflet is smaller than the uppermost pair, 

 ill are acuminate, lanceolate, and thin. 



7-11 inch thick; grey, scaly, pustular; the 

 pustules are in longitudinal lines; the scales 

 are fairly thin, and shed in irregular patches 

 3 inches to 4 inches across. Inner bark streaked 

 pink-red and white. Solution colourless; no 



precipitate. 

 Wood. — Sap 2 inches, pale-yelloAv. Heart a good 



deep-brown. Hays fine. Pores numerous; dis- 



' tinct: 



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Bark. 



Kays. — 130 to 140; very fine dark-brown, sinuous 



about 1-lOOth inch deep, mere 



Conspicuous. 2,700 



around pores, 



lines on quarter. Pores. 



to 3,400 in zones of varying density; single and 



Soft tissue. — Absent. General. 



radially septate. 

 A 



blue 



fungus. 



grey timber; attacked by 

 Solution wood, a greenish discolouration; no 



precipitate. (Hits soft and fairly clean; 27 lb. 



to the cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Baroi. 



Date. — October. 



Native names.— Kakikaki (Vailala), Uri (Motu). 



Remarks. A good general purpose timber. Nice 



enough looking for furniture, but on the heavy 



side. 



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llected. — "Wood, bark, leaves, fruit. 



M KLIACKAE. 



Aglaia elaeagnoidea, Xo. 50; Aglaia sapindina, Xos. 



162 and 1315; Aglaia obliqua, Xo. UW; Cedrella 

 Toona var. australia F. v. M., Xos. !) and (>26; 

 Chisocheton sp., No. 808; Chisocheton erythro- 

 carpus, lli(>m J 'Ko. 353; Chisocheton Biroi affin., 

 Nos. 2:51a and 5!>S; Dysoxvlum caulostachyum 

 Miq. affin., X r o. 2D1 ; Dvsoxvluni pettigrewianum 



Bail., Xo. 300; Dysoxylum'sp., Nos. 90, 66, 127, 

 148, 308, 612, and 620; Dysoxylum fissum, No. 



282; Xylocarpus granatum, Nos. 343 and 21S; 

 Indt., No. 296. 



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A (/ laia elaeagnoidea Benth, No. 50. 



A medium tree, 7 feet girth, with a 30-ft. bole. 



Without buttresses. 

 Leaves. — Compound, alternate; stalk 7i to !>_> 

 inches, hearing four pairs and a terminal leaflet. 

 The leaflets are alternate, except last pair, which 



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men ; blade .v\ to t> inches 

 2 to 2J inches; ovate to lanceolate; acumi- 

 nate; entire; thin. Midrib, veins and stem 



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rough; warty; red-brown. 

 Bark— J to .] inch thick. Greeny-grey. Fairly 



smooth. Inner bark yellow. 



Wood. — Sap not defined; pale-yellow or white. 



So fine and close as to he uncountable. 



Porea. — 600 to 1,200; large and conspicuous, 



irregularly scattered; single. Soft tissue.— Ex- 

 ceedingly fine lines rim at righl angles to rays. 



General. — A grey wood, with pores showing up 

 as blade Btreaks. Solution wood, colourless No 

 precipitate Cuts a little hart. Diflicult to 



get a section owing to soft tissue; 42 lh. per 



Rays. 



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foot. 



