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Locality. — Yalu. 



Dat 



e. — December, 1923. 



Native name. — Ebeve (Yalu). 

 Material collected. — Leaves, wood, bark. 



Indt, No. 296. 



( Medium tree, 8| feet in girth, with a bole of 30 

 feet. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate; the stalk oval in 

 section and much swollen at butt is 15 to 25 in- 

 ches long, and bears 6 to 7 pairs of opposite and 

 subopposite leaflets and a terminal one; blade, 

 4| to 10 inches x 2^ to 4|; ovate to elliptical; 

 acuminate, glabrous, thin. The twig is bright 

 green and is covered with brown lenticels. 



Fruit. — A yellow 4 segmented capsule 1£ inches 

 diameter containing 2 to 4 seeds; the fruit is 

 borne on the old wood on spikes up to 10 inches 

 long. 



Bark. — J inch thick; grey scaley, pustular; inner 

 bark white prominently streaked with yellow; 

 solution tawney; cloudy precipitate. 







Wood. — Sap 2 inches yellow; heart a red brown. 



Rays. — 200; pale yellow; sinuous around and 

 broken by pores; 1-1 00th inch deep; show up as 

 specks on quarter. Pores. — Conspicuous; 2500; 

 single; seldom radially septate 2. Soft Tissue. 

 — Very broken wavy lines about 70 to the inch. 

 General. — A yellow cabinet wood without much 

 in the way of grain. Solution wood, colourless; 



no precipitate, 

 cubic foot. 



Locality. — BaroL 



Date. — October. 

 ISTati 



Cuts a little hard; 44 lb. per 



lve 



names. — A-a-wu (Vailala), Iko-Akani 

 (Evara). 



Remarks. — A medium hard cabinet wood. 

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



Dysoxylum sp., Nos. 90, 127. 



A large tree 9 feet girth, a bole of 50 feet and 100 

 feet overall; small spur roots 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate; leaf stalk, 10 in- 

 ches, carrying 5 pairs leaflets w r ith or without a 

 terminal one; opposite and subopposite; petiole, 

 i to \) blade, 3f-5| x lf-2j ovate to lanceolate. 



Fruit. — A brown more or less kidney shaped fruit 



. containing 3 nuts, of which one or two only 

 come to maturity. 



Bark. — Half-inch orange, brown, tesselated; inner 



bark 



pinky brown; exudes latex abundantly; 



solution, colourless; no precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap pale, 2 inches; heart red. 



Kays. — 280; pink; coarse ones 180; 100 very 

 fine; coarse ones very sinuous indeed, twisting 

 and turning around pores, sometimes almost 

 running together to make room for a large pore; 

 fine ones broken by pores; up to l-50th inch 

 deep, but most show as specks on quarter. Pores. 

 - — Conspicuous; 2000 to 2500; single radially 

 septate here and there the division is diagonal 

 or even tangential. Soft Tissue. — Absent. Gen- 

 eral. — A pink timber with a straight mahogany 

 grain and pleasant figure. Solution, wood; col- 

 ourless; no precipitate. Cuts soft; 36 lb. pea 1 



cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Aroa. 



V 



Date. — Fruits in May and June. 

 Native name. — Kiloe (Suku). 



Remarks. — A straight grained cedar-like timber 



worth attention. 



Xy hear pus granatum, Nos. 343, 218. 



A medium sized tree; 3 ft. 6 in. to 1 ft. girth; 60 

 feet overall; no buttresses. 



Leaves. — Compound, opposite; stalk, 2 inches to 

 4 inches, bearing 2 pairs of opposite leaflets; 

 petiole, \ to § stout; of the terminal pair, one 

 is often absent, or the stalk from the first pair 





leaf 



up is thin and petiolear and makes the 

 appear trifoliate, or again one of the terminal 

 leaflets is reduced in size; finally it sometimes 

 happens that one leaflet arises from the end of 

 the stalk on a petiole 1 J inches long, giving the 

 terminal leaflets an alternate appearance; blade, 

 3 inches to 4^ x lf-3 ; obovate to oval or ellipti- 

 cal, blunt pointed; venation distinct; somewhat 

 coriaceous; twig bright brown, ribbed and cov- 

 ered with lighter brown lenticels. 



Fruit. — Globose, 7£ diameter; rind, \ green, 

 smooth, covered with brown markings; four 

 lines of dehiscence; inside pink, leatherly; seeds 

 number 19 to 20 and measure about 1 ; | x 1 inch; 

 flattened liemisplieroids, and are surrounded by 



pinky white fleshy tissue; these seeds are 

 grouped in fives and sometimes in four, and 

 each group occupies one quarter of the globose 

 fruit, and it is divided from its neighbors by B 

 white, orange-like septum. They all fit closely 

 .together, and once separated are as hard to re- 

 assemble as a jigsaw puzzle. The fruit dehisce; 



along the four lines, and the seeds are scattered 

 •and are sea-borne; in December and January 

 the beaches are strewn with them. 



Bark. — Very thin, l-Hitli inch at most; yellow 

 brown; scaly like a plane tree; inner bark pink. 

 Solution, pale brown; green precipitate. 



Sap undefined, pale yellow to pale pink. 



yellow; 1-S0th inch deep; 

 specks on quarter. Pores. — 15200 to 5700; 



Wood. 

 Raws. 



2:50 



mere 



mostly single, here 





on quarter. 



and there radially septate; 

 on each side and in soft tissue they are very 

 crowded and small. Soft Tissue. — Thin lines 

 about six to the inch and marked off with small 

 crowded pores. General. — A compact yellow 

 wood showing little grain exeeot where soft 



tissue streaks it; solution 



xeept 

 wood 



colourless ; 



faint green precipitate; cuts hard; 38 11). per 

 cubic foot. 



Locality. — Galley Reach and all other Mangrove 



formations. 

 ] )ate. — J anna vx^ 1 923. 

 Native naiiics. — Apura (Vailala), Wagua (Tufi), 



Kairn (Motu), Laure (Buna). 



Remarks. — A firm or soft wood; a dye extracted 

 from the bark is used by the Hinendele to colour 

 his tapi cloth red. 



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



M 



ALPIGHIACEAE. 



liyssoplenis timorensis, Xo. 421. 



A climber. 



Flowers. — Yellow. 



Locality. — Alenari; 5000 feet; old farm lands. 



Date.— February, 1923. 



Materia] collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



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il'I'MUUHIACKAl':. 



Aleurites moluccan a Willd., Xo. 12f>; Baecaurea papu- 



ana, Xos. 230, 625; Baecaurea sp., Xos. ;">, (522; 



Xos. KJf), fill; Bridelia sub- 



ma 



Material 



collected. — Leaves, fruits, wood, bark. 





Breynia eeri 



nuda, No. 794; Daphnipbylluin glaucescens, 



Blume, No. 378; Endospermum formica rum, 



No. 21; Glocliidion globosum, No. 629; iloina- 



