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Medinilla sp., No. 536. 



A shrub up to 12 feet high. 



Flowers. — White. 



Locality. — Nomi River. 5,000 feet. 



Date. — November, 1923. 



Material collected. — Leaves. Flowers. 



Medinilla sp., No. 535. 



A shrub up to 8 feet high. 

 Flowers. — Fink. 



Locality. — Nomi Eiver, 5,000 feet. 



Date. — November, 1923. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Medinilla sp., No. 403. 



A small tree or large shrub. 

 Leaves. — Three veined. 

 Flowers. — Very showy pint. 



Locality. — Junction of Adai and Inumu Rivers. 

 2,200 feet. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Melastoma, No. 796. 



A strong woody climber, attaining 30 feet. 

 Leaves. — Simple opposite, 6 to 9 inches by 4 inches 



wide, on a very short entirely twisted petiole. 



The blade is elliptical, acuminate and coriaceous. 

 Flowers. — Delicate mauve-coloured flowers grow 



on the old wood in bunches; long calyx tubes. 

 Locality. — Korindal (New Britain). 

 Date. — 11th August. 

 Native name. — Tabuata (Nakanai). 

 Remarks. — A decorative creeper. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Poikilogyne setosa White & Francis ined., 316. 



A shrub with a scrambling habit. 

 Leaves. — Simple, opposite; petiole 1 to 2 inches; 

 blade 3 x 2-| inches to 4 by 3 inches; the petiole 



margin dentate; 



Boerlagiodendron Sayeri Harms, No. 390. 



■ , A third story specie — 20 feet high. 



Leaves. — Large, acer-like, but more deeply fid 

 and serrate. 



Flowers. — Terminal umbels, purple and white. 

 Locality. — Laruni Spur, Mt. Obree, 7,000 feet. 

 Date.— February, 1923. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



llorsfieldia silvestris Warbg., Nos. 22, 231. 



A medium tree, 7 feet by 70 feet over all. 

 buttress roots. 



No 



Leaves. — Alternate; subsessile, entire; acuminate; 



rusty tomentose below ; green, shiny above. 

 Flowers . — Yellow. 

 Bark. — J inch thick, greeny grey; fairly rough; 



rather fibrous; pale red below surface, 

 tion slightly discoloured. 



Solu- 



Faint greenish pre- 

 cipitate. 



Wood. — Sap 2 inches, pale; heart yellow. 



Rays. — 180; red; sinuous round, and here and 

 there broken by pores; l-20th inch deep; con- 

 spicuous bands and oblongs. Pores. — Clear. 

 1,200 to 1,400; single and radially septate (2). 

 Tissue. — Fine concentric, continuous lines 30-35 

 to the inch radius. Also a number of broken 

 lines. These are like the others only finer and 



break off short. General. — A smooth 

 grained w r ood with a 



nicely marked 



straight 

 quarter 



grain. Solution wood, colourless; no precipi- 

 tate. Cuts firm. 36 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Vaimauri, Buna. 



Native names. — Aremore (Suku), Kore (Buna), 



Dabaukiba (Vailala). 

 Date.— May, 1022, July 1022. 



Kemarks. — A light, soft timber, easily worked. 

 Rays show up on the quarter. 



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



stem and 



veins are hairy; 

 midrib and four prominent veins present. 

 Flowers. — Lake coloured ; calyx \ ; 



petals § ; 



anthers yellow \ inch long; style terete, curved 



at stigma. 

 Locality.— 7,500 feet, Mt. Obree. 

 Date. — January, 1923. 

 Native name. — Dabai (Laruni). 

 Remarks. — Showy flowering shrub. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Indt., No. 430. 



Leaves. — Soft, velvety, cordate, lower surface 

 purple, upper dark green. 



Flowers, — Pink. 



Locality.— lorobaiva, 3,000 to 4,000 feet. 

 Date. — February 1923/ 

 Remarks. — A most ornamental plant. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Osbecl'ia chinensis Linn, No. 638. 



A herb. 



Flowers. — Mauve. 



Locality. — Grass hills upper Ramu up to 1,700 



Date.— 29th February, 1924. 



Remarks. — Common. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flowers. 



Polys das cibaria White & Francis ined., No. 388. 



A third story specie; 20 feet high and somewhat 



rambling in habit. 

 Leaves. — Compound, asymmetrical, aromatic. 

 Flowers. — Large terminal panicles of small white 



flowers. 

 Locality. — Mt. Obree to Laruni Spur, 7,000 feet. 



(Said by natives to grow down to sea level.) 

 Date.— February, 1923. 

 - Remarks. — Leaves and flowers are cooked with 



coco-nut oil and put in armlets in dances. 

 Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Polyscias sp., No. 190. 



A large tree; 8 feet in girth with an unbuttressed 



bole of 70 feet. 

 Leaves. — Compound, alternate ; stalk about 1!> 



Akaliaceae. 



Boerlagiodendron Sayeri, No. 390; Horsfieldia silves- 

 tris, Nos. 22, 231; Polyscias sp., No. 190; 

 Polyscias sp., No. 388; Schefflera sp., Nos. 172 % 

 546; Schefflera setulosa (affin.), No, 516.. 



inches. Leaflets opposite; subsessile; blade 2 

 to 4£ inches by !£ to 2 inches; about 9 pairs 

 and a terminal one. There is a distinct con- 

 striction or waist in the stalk at the points 

 where the pairs of leaflets spring. 

 Bark. — \ inch thick; pustular; the pustules in 



longitudinal lines or ridges; inner bark yellow. 



Solution pale yellow; pale green precipitate* 



Wood. — Sap undefined. Pale yellow. 



Conspicuous; coarse 50; yellow, Straight 

 or only a little sinuous. 1-5 inch deep. Show- 

 ing up well on the quarter. Between these 



Kays. 



coarse rays are a large number of very fine ones 

 too fine to count. — Pores, — Conspicuous; 3,000 

 evenly scattered. Single and radially septate 

 2-3. Soft tissue. — Absent. General. — A white 





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