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Bark. — Ked brown, rough, fibrous; | inch thick. 

 Inner bark red-brown. The bark of saplings 

 is very stringy and is used by the natives for 

 tying up bundles, &a Solution tawny; strong 

 blue precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap pale yellow, 3 J to 4 inches. Heart 

 red brown. A hard general utility wood. 



Kays. — 280 to 300 red brown, do not show up 

 plainly on quarter, the colour being nearly same 

 as wood, l-40th inch deep. Pores. — Conspicu- 

 ous. 3,000 to 3,500 rather evenly scattered, 

 radially septate (2 to 7). Soft tissue. — Sur- 

 rounds the pores, also in very thin ladder rungs 

 joining rays. General.- — A red brown wood Xanthomi/rtus longicuspis Diels, No. 398. 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite; petiole \ inch; blade 

 9 hy 5^ inches; obovate, acuminate; pubes- 

 cent, coriaceous. 



Flowers. — Red axillary, one to each axil. Shortly 



pedunculate. 4 bracts. 

 Bark. — Brown, rough. 

 Locality. — Throughout rain forests up to an alti- 



tude of 2,000 feet. 

 Date. — Flowers in Buna District in July. 



Remarks. — A showy flower. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers; in her- 

 barium. 



showing little grain. Solution wood; colourless; 

 faint green precipitate. Cuts hard. Weighs 

 55 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Yanapa; Veimauri; Aroa. 

 Date. — June, 1922. 

 Native names. — Ivaeda 



(Suku), Bibira 

 Pair a (Evara), Puri-iki 



(YaluV 



(Buna), 

 (Vailala), Aruntern 



Remarks. — The size to which this tree 



makes it a useful milling timber, 

 good and it should command 



grows 

 Its colour is 



wood, 



a price where 

 heavy strong timbers are required. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flowers, fruit 

 bark. 



Metroslderos sp., No. 204. 



Small tree^ 3 feet girth and 50 feet high. 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate; petiole 3-16th inch; 

 hlade If by 7-16 inches; obovate, more or less 

 acute, margin recurved; rusty tomentose below; 

 glabrous above; rather coriaceous. 



Flowers. — Axillary cymose corymbs 



branches. Scarlet, conspicuous, gorgeous and 

 floribundant. Peduncle 3-32 pubescent. 



. . m w or white; very 



shallow, visible as fine lines on quarter. Pores 

 —9,000 to 10,000. Very small but visible owing 



Here and there less porous 

 zones occur. Soft tissue. — Appears to be absent. 

 General. — An exceedingly dense grainless wood, 

 very heavy. Solution wood: colourless, blue 

 precipitate. Cuts hard. 66 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Bark. — Yellow brown, longitudinally 



at end of 



Rays.— 250-270 ; pale yellow- 



to white edging. 



scales about i 



scaly ; 

 Inner bark yellow. 



Solution colourless. Strong blue precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined; yellow, deepening to dark 

 yellow or light brown. 



Locality. — Trail from Kokoda to the Gap at 5,400 

 feet. 



Date. — Flowers in August. 



Remarks. — The most ornamental tree I have seen 

 in Papua. The dark green myrtle foliage and 

 the scarlet flowers, make a contrast which is 

 most beautiful. The scarlet crowns can be 



picked out across wide valleys in these moun- 

 tains. 



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



Metroslderos new species, No. 534. 



A small tree up to 30 feet high. 

 Flowers. — Showy red fi lamented flowers. 

 Locality. — Edge of lime stone precipice 

 ISTomi River. 



Date. — November, 1923. 



Material collected.— Leaves and flowers. 



Octamyrtus insignis Diels, No. 163. 



A small tree 15 inches girth and 15 



above 



^ 



feet high. 

 Undergrowth in rain forests. Wide branching 



A tree 6-J feet in girth by 30 feet of bole and 50 

 feet over all. 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite. 2 inches by f inch, 

 lanceolate, exceedingly acuminate, thin, glab- 

 rous, oil dotted. Twig pubescent. 



Bark. — J inch, brown; scaly; sometimes these 

 scales persist, hanging to the tree in an untidy 

 manner. Inner bark red. Solution faint rose; 

 very faint precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap, ^ inch, yellow. Heart a very deep 

 red. 



44 to 47 to the inch. Yellow. Do not 



-32,000 to 



Rays.— 



show up on the quarter. Pores. 



47,000 up to about 2,000 to the square inch are 

 impregnated with a red brown deposit. They 

 lie in very short, irregular radial chains. Soft 



tissue. — About one thin line to the inch. . Gene- 

 eral. — A dark red-brown compact timber show- 

 ing no grain. Solution wood: faint rose; strong 

 blue precipitate. Cuts hard. 63 lb. per cubic 

 foot. 



Locality. — Ridge between Adai and Tuhui Rivers. 

 It has a wide range from an altitude of 5,000 

 feet upwards, all along the Owen Stanley Range. 

 In many places it forms the only associate spe- 

 cies of tree with the Conifers. 



Date. — February, 1923. 

 Native name. — Faro (Menari). 

 Material collected.- — Leaves, bark, wood. 



Iiult,, No. 358a. 



A 



small 



all. 



tree, 3 feet girth and 30 feet over 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite; petiole 3-32nd; blade 

 up to 1 inch by | inch. Oil dotted. 



Locality. — Mt. Obree and main Owen Stanley 

 Range— 8,000 to 10,300 feet. As one rises this 

 species becomes more and more numerous, until 

 finally at the top of the range it shares with 

 the Podocarp, 357a, P. Thevitiifolius, the whole 

 of the space. 



Date.— February, 1923. 



Material collected. — Leaves. 



and somewhat weeping. 



Melastomaceae. 



Medinilla sp., Nos. 360, 403, 535, 536; Indt., No. 430; 



Melastoma sp., No. 796; Poikilogyne setosa, No. 

 346; Osbeckia chinensis, Linn. No. 638. 



Medinilla sp., No. 360. 



A succulent plant, 4 feet high. 

 Flowers. — White, with red calyx. 

 Locality.— 7,000 to 8,000 feet on main Owen Stan- 

 ley Range. 

 Date. — February, 1923. 

 Remarks. — An ornamental plant. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



