116 



Roemeri, Laut., No. 528; Sanrauja Conferta, 

 No. 538; Dillenia alata var. macrophylla, No. 



631. 



Saurauja Pluril ocularis White & Francis hied., No. 416 



A small tree; 20 feet. 



Leaves. — Large, serrate, coriaceous, oblanceolate. 



Flowers. — Pentamerous, white. The petals are a 



faint rose pink at base. 

 Locality. — Banks of Upper Xaro River; 5,000 feet. 

 Date.— February, 1923. 

 Remarks. — It grows with its roots practically in 



the torrent, and has for neighbour Dammaropsis 



Kingiana, No. 260. 



Material collected. — FloAvers and leaves. 



Bark. — | inch thick; yellow to red-brown or red. 

 Scaly, papery; scales like a Melaleuca. Inner 

 bark streaked yellow-brown and cream. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined; pale yellow deepening to 

 rose-brown. A beautiful grain on the quarter. 



Rays. — Two kinds. (1) Conspicuous, 50 yellow, 

 coarse, straight. They really consist of bundles 

 of fine rays; about i inch deep. Show up as 

 loud silver grain on quarter, only it is pink. (2) 



and broken by pores. 



Very 



sinuous 



Saurauja sp. no v., No. 431. 



Shrub to small tree, 20 feet over all. 

 Leaves. — Alternate, coriaceous, serrate. 



owy. 



Flowers. — Pink, sh 



Locality. — Forests of the ravines of the grassy hill 



around Iorobaiva ; 3,000 to 4,000 feet. 

 Date.— February, 1923. 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flowers. 



Saurauja Poolei White k Francis ined., No. 165. 



s 



140. 



Pores. — 2,000 to 2,500, evenly scattered; single. 

 Soft tissue. — Absent. General. — A pink-brown 

 wood with a very figures quarter grain. Solu- 

 tion wood: colourless; very pale-green precipi- 

 tate. Cuts firm to hard; 49 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Locality.— Mainland opposite Samarai. Northern 



Division, up to 1,500 feet. Easily confused with 

 a tree with a similar bark, but opposite leaves. 

 Found another worinia of lower dimensions, but 

 with larger and more orbicular leaves, unfor- 

 tunately not in flower. 



Date. — FloAvers July to August, in Northern Divi- 

 sion. 



Native names. — Lalagi (Buna and Binandele), 

 Hokore (Vailala). 



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



Small tree up to 20 feet. Spreading, almost Dillmia alata Gilg., var. macrophylla Lautb., No. 631. 



rambling habit. Undergrowth, rain forests. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate; petiole, 1 inch; blade 



up to 6^ x 3f inches; pubescent above and below; 



midrib above and margin armed with spines; 



acuminate. 

 Flowers. — K.5, C.5. Pink. 

 Locality. — All rain forests up to 2,000 feet. 

 Date. — Flowers in July in Buna District. 

 Native name. — Qse (Wasida). 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



A small tree 20 feet high and 3 feet in girth. 



Leaves. 



(Have deciduous ligules. 



Loca lity. — Ramu. 



Date.— 11th February, 1924. 



Remarks. — A common tree in the low-lying coun- 

 try on each side of the Ramu. 

 Material collected. — Leaves. 



Saurauja conferta Warburg, No. 538. 



A straggling branched tree, 25 feet high. 

 Flowers. — White. 



Locality. — Xomi River, 5,000 feet. 

 Date.— November, 1923. 



Remarks.— 



A common undergrowth in rain 



forest 



and foothill forest. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Affinities, Saurauja Roemeri Lauterb, No. 528. 

 A small tree, 15 feet high. 

 Flowers. — White eampanulate. 



Locality. — Edge of limestone precipice above Nomi 

 River, 7,000 feet. 



Date. — November, 1923. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



a 



]Yormia querci folia White & Francis ined., No. 226. 

 A large handsome tree, 80 feet bole, 100 feet over 



OcHKACEAE. 



S churm-ansia Henningsii K. Sell., Nos. 237, 371, 580. 



Small tree or large shrub, branching low down 

 with many branchlets; 20 feet high. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate, sessile or subsessile; 

 grouped at intervals of 4 or 6 inches along 

 branchlets, the intervening interval being that 

 occupied by last year's flowers; blade, 15 to 

 30 inches by 3 to 5^ inches; oblanceolate; mar- 

 gin recurved, serrate, serration apiculate; glab- 



prominent yellow midrib. 

 Young leaves red, conspicuous. 

 Flowers. — Terminal, compound, corymbs of white 

 flowers. Corymbs 12 inches long and 18 inches 

 across. Peduncle 3/32. 



Fruit. — A green dehiscent capsule f inch long by 

 i inch diameter. Three sutures along which it 

 opens, but remains closed at apex. Seed very 

 minute, winged like the propeller of an aero- 



rous; 



coriaceous; 



X 7 J 



inch from tip to tip. 



3/16 



all, and 12 feet 

 buttressed. 



girth. 



Spur-rooted, but not 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate; petiole, \\ to If inches. 

 Young leaves have a petiole bearing a wing or 

 ligule, 5-16 to 6-16 ineh wide along upper edge 

 of petiole; this strips off early, leaving a scar 

 along its whole- length. Blade, 5 to 6\ inches 3 

 3 to 4^ inches, variable in shape from elliptical 

 to obovate; apex mucronate; margin undulate 

 in some leaves more than others, while some are 

 almost straight edged; venation and midrib pro- 

 minent below; coriaceous, glabrous; pale-green 

 below; dark-green and shiny above. 



Flowers. — Terminal cymes bearing ai 

 solitary flowers. Peduncles, 1-J to ! 



Locality. — llydrographer's on edge of rain forests 

 and grass lands. Owen Stanley 6,000 feet on 

 edge of Hoop Pine forest, Finisterre Range, 

 4,000 feet; undergrowth in Dacrydurm Forest. 



Date. — Flowers in llydrographer's in August. 



Native name. — Kembusa (Buna). 



Remarks. 



V very ornamental shrub. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, fruits ; in her- 

 barium. A pink variety also occurs in the 

 llydrographer's. 



Theaceae. 



i 



rule 



Eurya sp. nov., No. 505 ; Gordonia f ragrans, No. 804 



TBurya sp. nov., No. 505. 



Shrub up to 20 feet high. 



