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rays, rendering the whole wood mealy. 

 ■A mouse-coloured 



General. 



wood, exceedingly porous. 

 Solution wood: very pale yellow; no precipitate. 

 Cuts soft and woolly; hard to get a section; 23 

 lb. per cubic foot. 



Bark. — 1 inch thick; grey, ridged, rugged; inner 

 bark red. 



Wood. — Sap undefined; pinky yellow. 



Locality. — Q 



West 



Divisions in a wild state. 



Date. — It flowers in the middle of the dry season. 

 June to July. 



Native names. — Varu fMotnl. 



W 



Remarks. — Its handsome red flowers should make 

 it a more general favorite for ornamental plant- 

 ing. The kapok contained in the seed vessels is, 



in 

 article. 



other 



countries, 



a valuable commercial 



It is common in many parts, and in 

 the Yalu forest was the largest tree. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, wood, bark. 



Stekculiaceae. 



Heritiera littoralis, Nos. 333, 85; Kleinhovia hospita, 



N T o. 182; Pterygota Forbesii F. v. M., No. 24; 

 Pterocymbium sp., Nos. 13, 279, 602; Sterculia 

 (affiin, S. Edelfeltia), No. 67; Indt., No. 53; 

 Indt., No. 74. 



Heritiera littoralis Ait., Nos. 333, 85. 



Large tree, 10 feet girth, 60 feet bole, and 100 

 feet overall; large buttresses to 12 feet. 

 caves. — Simple, alternate; petiole, f to 1 inch; 

 blade, 4 to 6| inches by 2 to 4f inches; elliptical 

 and obovate; more generally the latter; midrib 

 and lateral veins yellow, prominent, shiny above; 

 below brown, warty, coriaceous; upper surface 

 shiny; lower, coppery sheen. Sapling leaves: 

 petiole, 3 inches; blade, 9 inches; elliptical to 



L 



lower surface silvery. 



Young 



lanceolate, 



leaves are lanceolate, and have petioles up to 

 3 inches. 



Flowers. — Axillary panicles 5 to 6 inches long; 

 cream campanulate, pedunculate (-£ inch long) 



flowers. 

 Bark. — J inc 

 shedding 



h 



i w 1 1 



longitudinally scaly, 



in irregular patches; inner bark red, 

 finely streaked with white; solution, colourless; 

 faint precipitate. 



Wood.— Sap, 2± inches, pale-yellow to pink; heart 

 a good red-brown. 



Rays— 120. "Yellow, fine, 1-50 to 1-70 inch deep, 

 showing as brown streaks on quarter. Pores.— 

 Clear, 1,300 to 1,700, somewhat irregularly scat- 

 tered; single and radially septate (2). Soft 

 tissue. — Very fine ladder rungs between rays; 



so fine as to take some finding. General. A 



dark-brown handsome wood. Solution wood: 

 colourless; slightly precipitate. Cuts hard, leav- 

 ing shiny surface; 63 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Vailala, Veia. 



Date. — December, 1922. 



Native 



names. — Pai-iru 



(Suku). 



Remarks.— 



(Vailala), Napera 



A good bard wood. 



The leaves from 



young trees are used for wrapping tobacco in 

 as cigarette paper, in short. 



es, flowers, bark, wood. 



Material collected. — Lea^ 



Pterocymbium sp., Nos. 13, 27!>, 602. 



Leaves. — Flow 



tree 



comes into 



ers before the lea\ 



leaf 



es appear. 

 in December. 



Tl 



ie 



alternate; petiole, 1| to 2 inches; blade, 3 to 

 4 inches long, cordate, glabrous, thin; venation 

 yellow, and very distinct. 

 Flowers. — Panicles grouped at extremities of 



branches. 



Beai 



*s 



at its summit a head of 



anthers, surrounding the ovary from which pro- 

 trudes a minute five-pointed stigma. The ovary 



is five loc. 

 Fruit. — The fruit adheres to the gynophore until 

 K. separates from the peduncle and falls. A 

 brown, somewhat ribbed, obovoid thin capsule, 

 ^ inch long by 5-16 inch diameter, finished with 

 wing, shaped like a lady's slipper, with a very 

 prominent heel. The total length is 3 \ inches, 

 and the heel juts out £ inch. The wing is mem- 

 branous and veined. The seed in its capsule is 

 attached to the top of the slipper, and from this 

 point still persists the style, | inch long. The 

 winged seeds detach themselves in fives from the 

 top of these tall trees, and spinning, parachut- 

 ing, and planing, they are carried some distance. 

 The heel fills out with air, and acts as a para- 

 -chute, while the toe forms a plane. They rise 

 on any upward air draught, and so descend to 

 the ground in a succession of undulations. At 

 first I took them for butterflies. (Baroi, Novem- 

 ber, 1922.) 



inch thick; dark-grey, longitudinally 

 lined; inner bark red, streaked with white — like 

 bacon. 



"Wood. — White; sap undefined; lace grained; soft; 

 light. 



Rays. — Very conspicuous; 130, of which about 40 

 are coarse, and the rest fine, but the coarse 

 gradually decrease in width and the fine gradu- 

 ally increase until they are coarse, 1-16 inch 

 deep, show up well on quarter. Pores. — Con- 

 spicuous; very few; 300 to 500 sown in zones of 

 varying thickness. Soft tissue. — Absent. Gene- 

 ral. — A white wood, quickly attacked by blue 

 fungus. Solution slight; dirty-brown precipi- 

 tate. Cuts soft and clean ; 29 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Baroi River — Purari Delta. 



Date. — Flowers in October. 



Native names. — E — A (Vailala) ; Sihu (Suku) ; 



Husisi (Buna); Wisawis (Yalu). 

 Remarks. — A soft wood; quickly spoilt by blue 



fungus. If possible to kiln dry should prove a 



useful indoor wood. 



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

 fruit. 



Bark.— | 



Kleinhovia hospiia, No. 182. 



Small tree, 50 feet high and 2| feet 

 Comes up in abandoned farm lands. 



in girth. 

 Young 



saplings used for roofing timbers and load poles. 



Young leaves cooked as a vegetable. 

 Leaves— Simple, alternate, stipulate; petiole up 



to 7 inches ; blade up to 7^ by 7 inches ; cordate, 



acuminate, glabrous, thin. 

 Flowers. — Axillary panicles of pink flowers. 

 Fruit. — A five-celled dehiscent capsule. 

 Bark. — Grey; longitudinally lined. 

 Locality. — Everywhere where there has bee 



n a 



Simple, 



native garden. 



Date. — Flowers in July, in Northern Division. 

 Native name. — Ombora (Buna). 

 Remarks.— A very light wood— hence its use. 

 Material collected.— Leaves, flowers, fruits. 



Pterygota Forbesii F. v. M., No. 24. 



A large tree, 9 feet by 65 feet bole; 120 feet over 

 all; large buttresses spreading out and ascend- 

 ing to 12 feet. 



