117 



Flowers. — White. 



Locality. — Salawaket 10,000 feet. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers 



Gordonia fragrans Merrill, No. 804. 



A large tree 8 feet in girth with a 50 foot bole and 



attaining 100 feet over all. Not buttressed. 



Leaves. — Simple alternate; petiole J inch curved 

 up; blade 3| to 5 inches by If to 2 inches, 

 tapering equally to both ends, blunt pointed, 

 shallowly serrate, rather coriaceous, glabrous. 



Flowers. — A white or cream rose, single, axillary, 



at end of hranchlets. 



A capsule opening in five valves. 



in largish 

 Inner bark 



shedding 



Fruit- 

 Bark. — Grey, scaly, scales 



plates leaving under bark scrolled. 



streaked light and dark brown. 

 Wood. — Sap ill-defined, deepening from white to 



a rose yellow, 

 wood. 



Axes stillly. A cross grained 



Rays. — Very fine indeed 250, single, of which 100 



are coarser; these are straight but the finer ones 

 are slightly sinuous around pores. l/60th inch 



deep; show up as brown oblongs on quarter. Soft 

 tissue. — Very fine lines link 



up 

 crossing the finer ones irregularly. 



coarse rays 



General. — - 



A mouse-coloured hard wood with a difficult 



Weighs 48 lb. to the cubic foot. 



Likdin. 



gram. 

 Locality .- 

 Date. — August, 1923. 

 Native name. — Mail (Likdin). 

 Remarks. — The bark is broken up in streams to 



kill fish. 



Materi a 1 collected . 



Worth trying for tan. 



Leaves. 



fruit. 



flowers, wood, bark, 



Ci UTTIFEEAE. 



Calophyllum inophyllum, I^o. 209; Calophyllum sp., 



Nos. 239, 424, 557, 800; Garcinia sp., Nos. 130, 



584; Garcinia llollrungii, No. 115; Garcinia 

 assuga Lautbch., Xos. 58, 224; Indr., Xo. 116. 



Calophyllum inophi/lhnn, No. 209. 



Large tree, 12 feet girth and 50 feet high; always 

 gnarled and leaning over on to the beach at an 

 angle of less than 45 degrees witli the ground. 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite, exstipulate ; petiole 



i 



2 



to |; 



bind 



e 3i to 6| by 



2 to 3|; elliptical, 



than rays. Closer together in less porous wood. 

 General. — A red brown pleasant looking timber. 

 The soft tissue gives it a very pretty grain on 

 back, while the red filled pores improve both 

 back and quarter grain. Solution wood: colour- 

 less, no precipitate. Cuts firm to hard. 40 lb. 

 per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Along the seashore only. 



Date. — Flowers in July in Northern Division. 



Native names. — Otai-i (Buna), Kokoilo (Sa- 



marai). 

 Remarks. — A very beautiful hard wood; unfor- 

 tunately the bole is rarely straight enough to 

 yield timber of any length. It is much used for 



boat knees. 

 [Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, fruit, wood. 



Calophyllum sp., No. 239. 



A large tree. 10 feet in girth with an unbuttressed 

 bole of 100 feet, and attaining 130 feet over all. 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite 1 ; petiole 3| to 



14- 



blade 4^ to 7 J by 2 to 4; oval to ovate; acute; 

 shiny above; yellow-green bloom below; midrib 



rusty tomentose, prominent. Venation very 



rusty, 



fine, very parallel, very regular. 



Twig 



tomentose. The bark of the branches, the veins 

 of the leaves, etc., exude a (ream coloured latex. 



Bark. 



i 



2 



inch thick; grey; 



ilatly ridged; ridges 



1 inch to 1^ inches apart and leading into each 

 other. Inner bark brown, finely streaked with 



yellow. Exudes yellow latex. 

 Wood. — Sap ill-defined. Yellow to rose. 



260. Red brown, very sinuous round and 



1/100 inch dee]). I nconspieu- 



Pores. — Conspicuous. 



and radially 



Kays. 



broken by pores. 

 ous on quarter. 



4,000 



Single 



septate (2). 



Soft tissue - 



to 5,000. 



Amassed in short radial chains. 

 Conspicuous. 12 coarse red brown lines to the 

 inch; they are wavy and more or less can turn- 

 around pores. General. — A red 



ous ; 



also 



pores. 



brown wood with pretty back grain, 

 wood: colourless. Faint 



Solution 



green precipitate. 

 Cuts rather hard to hard. 39 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Locality. — IToronda, Northern Division. 

 Date.— July, 1922. 



Native names. — Guti (Buna), Gahi (lloronda). 

 Remarks. — A medium hard wood, sought after for 



canoe decking. 

 Material collected- 



Leaves and wood. 



notched; veins very fine and regular and paral- Calophyllum sp., Xo. 800. 



lei; light green below; dark green above; shiny 

 on both sides; midribs only prominent below; 

 coriaceous. Exude latex. 

 Flowers. — Racemose panicles 6 inches long; erect 



A large tree, 9 feet in girth with a 60 feet bole 

 and reaching 100 feet over all. Narrow spur 

 roots. 



axillary; peduncle f to 1 [. 



Leav 



es. 



Si 



mipie 



1 



a'roov 



Fruit. 



A drupe; nut, globose 



It diameter in 



fibrous pericarp. £ inch thick; shell of nut 1/16 

 inch; kernel ovoid, 1 inch by f inch, surrounded 



bv pithv tissue. 



ch thick. 



The fruit is sea-borne. 



Bark. 



i m 



Grey, yellow, scaly; scales 

 Inner bark cream, speckled with red. 



papery 



Exudes kino. 

 Wood. — Sap 2 inches. Pale yellow; heart cedar 



brown ; a beautiful rose wood. 

 Rays. — 250. Red brown. Less than 1/100 inch 



deep; show up as minute specks on quarter. 



Very irregular, sinuous and broken. Pores. 



twisted, wrinkled; blade 5-J inches by 2 inches; 



tapering evenly to each end, blunt pointed, 



more or less coriaceous, parallel veined. 

 Bark. — I inch thick, brown, longitudinally lined 



to shallowly fissured. Inner bark light brown, 



next cambium a faint yellow. 

 Wood. — Sap, 4 inches, pale yellow; heart brown. 



Axes firmly. 

 Locality. — Likdin. 

 Date.— August, 1923. 

 Xative name. — Bou-U (Lidkin). 

 Material collected. — Leaves, wood, bark. 



Clear. 2,000 to 3,000 in marked zones of less CdlophyUum sp., No. 557. 



and more porous wood; arranged in chains ir- 

 regularly; single and radially septate 2-3; filled 



with red deposit. Soft tissue. — 50 red-brown 



A medium sized tree, 8 feet in girth with a 



bole of 50 feet and attaining 80 feet over all. 



Leaves. — Simple, apposite; petiole 3/16 inch ; 



lines to the inch; concentric wavy more 



or less continuous as they occur in less or more 

 porous wood; in latter broken by pores; coarser 



blade 1J to If by f to 3 



aoeous, finely parallel veined, 

 yellow latex. 



/ 



Kxudes pale 



