107 



i 



Smells 



like raw turnip; solution colourless; strong pre- 

 cipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined; pale yellow or white 

 wood. 



Rays. — 120-140 to the inch; brown; undulate and 

 sinuous around pores; l-40th inch deep; show 

 up as oblongs on quarter. Pores. — Clear, 1,300 

 to 3,000. The closer sowing of the pores is 

 really due to chains of radially septate pores 

 (2-4)* Soft tissue. — Not prevalent. Thin rings 

 sometimes double or treble about one zone to 

 the inch. General. — A grey-brawn wood with a 

 handsome walnut grain. Solution wood, colour- 

 less; faint green precipitate. Cuts firm and 

 clean; hard to get a translucent section; 52 lb. 

 per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Veimauri, Vanapa, Aroa. Not found 

 in Northern Division. 



Date. — Flowers in June in Vanapa District. 



Native names.— Habere (Suku), TJrau (Vailala). 



Remarks. — A hard timber, difficult to distinguish 

 from No. 1, in fact both have been sold as New 

 Guinea walnut. As a tree it is only by cutting 

 into the wood that it can be distinguished from 

 No. 5, unless, of course, the tree is in flower. 



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

 bark. 



opposite or opposite. Terminal leaf's petiole 1 



inch. Remaining pairs shortly petiolate G$-i) J 

 blade 1 , 2 to 4 inches x 1J to If inches; entire, 

 glabrous, elliptical; glands at junction of 

 secondary veins with midribs. 



Flowers. — Axillary. 



Fruit. — 



%j 



inch diameter. Red fleshy pericarp; 

 contains hard nut shaped like a crown with ten 

 apertures between the points of the crown. 



Bark. — \ inch thick, grey, roughly ridged. Inner 

 bark red, streaked with white. Exudes a meagre 

 flow of milky sticky sap ; solution, strong red- 

 brown; blue precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap pale pink, 3 inches; heart a fine dark- 

 brown. 



Locality.— 



Aj*oa. 



Rays.— 160-165, pinky 



yellow, slightly sinuous 

 around pores and very wavy in large sweeping 



l-100th inch deep; show up as specks 



curves ; 



on quarter. Pores.- — Conspicuous, 



8,000 



in 



less 



6,000 



to 



Single 



and more porous zones, 

 and radially septate (2). Soft tissue. — Rare, 

 about one very thin ring to the inch radius. 

 General. — A pinky yellow wood, somewhat cross 

 grained, often showing curly or fiddle-backed 

 grain on quarter. Solution wood, a pale pink; 

 strong blue 

 cubic foot. 



precipitate. Cuts hard; 57 lb. per 



Mangifera minor BL, Nos. 41, 170, 619. 



A large tree, 8-| feet girth and a bole of 50 feet; no 

 buttresses. 



Date. — Flowers and fruits in !Mav and June. 



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Native name — 



Remarks. — A 



-Vasapa (Suku). 



fine coloured 



hardwood, should 



Leaves- 

 inches, twisted; 

 8 inches x 1^ 

 glabrous; thin. 



Flowers.- 



Simple, alternate. Petiole, 



1] 



to 21 



blade, 11 inches x 3 inches to 

 inches ; lanceolate ; acuminate ; 



polish well, but interlocked grain will make it 

 hard to work. 



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

 wood, bark. 



\xillary panicles 7 to 8 inches long at Rhus sinarubaefolia A. Gray, Xo, 374. 



end of branchlets. 



Bark. 



inch thick, light-brown ; somewhat 

 in parts. Inner bark pale yellow. 

 Wood. — Sap undefined ; white with a saffron 



i 



2 



rugged 



tinge. 



Rays. 



1-1 00th 



240. Brown sinuous around and broken by 



inch deep; 



Pores- 

 to 2,000, single irregularly scattered, here and 



pores, 



specks on quarter. 



show up as brown 

 -Conspicuous, 1,400 



there diagonal chain 



occurs 

 blance of order: manv filled 



that 



give a sem- 

 with black de- 



posit. Soft tissue. — Fine concentric lines, some- 

 times several of them are joined and make one 

 coarse line sown with a chain of pores. The 

 lines are wavy and run from pore to pore, but 

 always cut the pore tangentially. General. — 

 A grey timber, streaked with dark pore lines 

 on back and quarter, and with soft tissue show- 

 ing conspicuously as rings on a cross-section. 

 Solution wood, slightly discoloured; a green pre- 

 cipitate, 

 foot. 



Cuts firm and clean ; 45 lb. per cubic 



Locality. 



Wide range over lower 



altitudes up to 



2,000 feet ; Veimauri foothills. 

 Date.— May, 1922. 

 Xative names. — Ihara (Suku), Ewa (Buna), 



Auroro (Vailala), Dua (Yalu). 

 Remarks. — A straight-grained hardwood. It 



grows larger on the north coast of New Guinea. 

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



Pletogyniutn solandri Engl., No. 125. 



A large tree, 9 feet girth and 75 feet bole; but- 

 tressed up to 4 feet. 



Leaves. — Crowded at end of branchlets, compound, 

 alternate; stalk, 7 to 9 inches; five to six pairs 

 of leaflets and a terminal one. Leaflets sub- 



F.12389.— 8 



A medium tree, up to SO feet over all; no but- 

 tresses. 



Leaves.— Compound, alternate; stalk about 1 ft. 

 9 in. long, bearing -about twelve* pain of sub- 

 opposite and opposite leaflets and a terminal 



one; petiole, 3-16th inch; blade, increasing in 

 size from base 3 xl| inches to end pair fij x 2 

 inches; terminal leaflet has petiole 1 inch long 

 and blade 4 5£ x 2 inches; all are lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, curved back along midribs and half- 

 closed, latter prominent, as are veins, coriaceous. 

 Branchlets stout with very thick pith. 



Flowers. — Axillary, erect panicles at end of 

 branches bearing numerous small pink sessile 

 flowers on stout stems. 



Fruit. — Immature; red. 



Bark. — Grey, large pustules, irregularly longi- 

 tudinally lined. Inner bark streaked pink and 

 white. Exudes latex. Solution discoloured ; 

 greenish-black precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined, white to pale pink. 



Bays. — 170, composed of coarse and fine yellow 

 rays; show up as specks on the quarter. Pores. 



sep- 

 tate (2-3) in relatively thinly and closely sown 



bands. Soft tissue, — Absent. General. — A pale 



wood, with a saffron sheen. Solution wood, dis- 

 coloured; faint blue precipitate. Cuts soft; 34 

 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Laruni. A common tree of the wooded 

 gullies that occur in the grass hills of the dry 

 belt, here it rarely exceeds 5£ feet girth and 30 



feet bole. 

 Date.— February, 1923. 

 Native name. — Orena (Laruni). 

 Remarks. — Soft wood. 



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



■3,000 to 6,000, single, rarely radially 



