100 



Locality. — Veimauri. 



Bate.— May, 1922. 



Native name. — Uva (Suku). 



-Remarks. — A hard interlocked-grained timber. A 

 rare tree. 



Material collected. — Leaves and wood. 



■ 



lia sapindina Benth., Nos. 133 and 162. 



Largs tree, 8 feet by 60-ft. bole. Medium buttresses 

 up to 7 feet. 



Leaves.— Compound, alternate. Stalk 8 inches to 



cigar-box wood, fragrant. Solution wood, pale 

 red; no precipitate. Cuts soft, but woolly; 

 weighs 46 lb. to the cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Collected leaves and wood near Vei- 



It is to be met with all along the 



maun. 



18 inches, 



with 



or 



carrying 6 to 7 pairs of leaflets 

 without a terminal leaflet. Leaflets 

 opposite and subopposite, 4 inches to 8 inches x 

 2 inches to 2^ inches, asymmetrical, subsessile, 

 elliptical, acuminate, thin; leaflets from young 

 trees pubescent below; slightly pubescent above. 



western side of the Owen Stanley Range, mainly 

 on the foot hills. Nowhere is it common, and 

 rarely is more than one tree found at a time. 

 I failed to find it n the Northern Division; but 

 it occurs in New Guinea and in New Britain. 

 Date.— May, 1922. 



Native names. — Epi (Suku), Kapere (Vailala), 



Mufus (Yalu). 

 Remarks. — The same tree as the Queensland red 



cedar, and the timber is as useful. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, wood, bark. 



I- — - V .»_ 



n mature trees this pubescence is reduced, or Affinitis Chlsocheton biroi Harns, No. 598. 



disappears, at any rate on the upper surface. 



Margin finely serrate. 

 Flowers.— Axillary panicles about 6 inches long, 



of very small white fragrant flowers. 

 Fruit. — Globose, ^ inch diameter, green speckled 



with brown; two to four seeds. 

 Bark. — | inch thick; greeny-brown, lineally lined 



to flatly ridged, pustular. Inner bark streaked 



light-brown and yellow. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined. Pale-yellow, deepening to 

 a pink. 



Rays. — 140. Coarse brown sinuous round pores; 

 l-100th inch deep, faint lines on quarter. Pores. 

 —Conspicuous. 600 to 1,400, in porous and 

 less porous zones, single and more or less radi- 

 ally septate 2 to 4. Soft tissue. — Conspicuous 

 lines thicker than rays link up in a very zig- 

 zag manner, the pores running tangentially to 

 them. General. 



markings. 



own 



Solution wood, colourless; no pre- 

 cipitate. Cuts very soft; 33 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Puna District, Sangara, and all plain 

 country. 



Da fe. — Flowers and fruits July and August. 



N ative names. 



Digisi 



(Buna), Zigisi 



(Bin an- 



■A hard wood. 



dele); also variously pronounced Sigisi and 

 Jigisi. 



Remarks.— 



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



wood. 



Cedrella Toona Eoxb., var. austral is, F. v. M., Xos. 9, 



6-26. 



A large tree, up to 16 feet in girth and 80 feet of 



bole; 120 feet overall. Buttressed up to 10 feet 

 or more. 



Leaves. — Compound; alternate; deciduous. Stalk 

 12 inches to 19 inches. Leaflets subopposite and 

 alternate; petiole i inch; 6 to 7 pairs; blade 

 4 inches to 5i inches x 3 inches to 3^ inches, 

 somewhat asymmetrical; acuminate; mem- 

 branous ; glabrous. 



Bark. — \ inch thick. Scaly. Red-brown to grey- 



A medium tree, averaging 5 feet in girth, with a 

 bole of 25 feet, and 50 feet overall, occasionally 

 up to 7£ feet by 50 feet by 80 feet. 



Leaves. — Compound alternate. Rachis up to 

 3 feet, very swollen at base, bearing 8 to 12 pairs 

 of leaflets; petiole f to 1 inch, swollen; blade 

 averages 13 inches x 5^ inches; lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, veins prominent. 



Fruit. — A red, somewhat woody, fruit, opening in 

 two. 



Bark. — | inch, greenish-brown, scaly, peels in large 

 plates, leaving the bark smooth in young trees 

 and pustular in old. Inner bark cream-streaked 

 yellow. Solution colourless. No precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined, pale-yellow or white. Axes 

 easily. 



Rays. — Distinct. 190 to 220; white, irregularly 

 spaced ; fairly straight ; l-50th inch deep. Pores. 

 Distinct; very few; 300 to 500; very irregu- 

 larly scattered; large. Soft tissue.— Conspicu- 

 ous; 100 distinct lines thicker than rays, crooked. 

 General. — A soft open wood, cuts very soft; 

 Solution colourless; no precipitate. 



Locality* — Yalu. 



Date. — December, 1923. 

 Native name.— 



Won, (Yalu), 



Material collected. — Lea\ 



es 



) 



fruit, wood, bark. 



bro 



\vn. 



Rough 



to rugged. Inner bark red. 



Chisocheton erythrocarpus Hiern, No. 353. 

 A climber, attaining 50 feet. 



Leaves, compound, alternate; stalk 10 inches; 3 to 

 4 pairs of opposite leaflets; petiole 5-16ths to 

 7-16ths inch; blade 4| to 6 x 2 to 2£ inches; 

 lower surface, midrib, veins, petiole, and stalk 

 covered with light-coloured hairs; oblanceolate ; 

 acuminate; thin; soft. 



Flowers. — Only buds collected. Axillary panicles 



3 inches to 4 inches long. 

 Locality. — Spurs of Mt. Obree to 6,000 feet. 

 Date.— January, 1923. 

 Remarks. — A forest climber. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and buds. 



Solution pale-red. No precipitate. 



Wood. 



Heart ced 

 Ravs. 



i 



bro 



Pale yellow-brown or white. Chlsocheton sp., No. 808. 



wn. 



-100 to 120 to the inch, red, inconspicuous 

 owing to colour; 1-15 inch deep; conspicuous on 

 quarter. Pores. — More or less ring pored; 900 

 to 2,300, small, and few in zones where the soft 

 tissue is absent, and large septate numerous 

 where soft tissue is frequent. Soft tissue. — Red, 

 rather straight lines, finer than rays, continu- 



also surrounds pores. General. — A red 



oils ; 



A medium tree, 7 feet in girth, and 60 feet high the 

 stem usually channelled. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate. Rachis stout, much 

 swollen at junction with stem; of variable 

 length, from 9 inches to 2 feet, bearing from 3 to 

 8 pairs of opposite leaflets. Leaflets on stout 

 swollen l-inch petioles; blade 10 to 14 inches x 

 4£ to 7 inches, variable in shape from lanceolate 

 to oblong; midribs and veins prominent. 



