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Bark. — Grey. 



Wood. — White, soft. 



Locality. — Awatib. 



Date.— 20th July. 



Native name. — Balms (Awatib). 



Remarks. — Appears to be deciduous. Used for 

 canoe making. 



Material collected. — Leaves and fruit. 



Mussaenda frondosa Linn; var. glalriflora K. Sell., No. 



565. 



Flowers. — Yellow, with white bracts. 

 Locality. — Joangey. 



Date.— December, 1923. 



Remarks. — Common from sea-level to 7,000 feet- 

 Material collected. — Leaves, flow r ers. 



Pavetia platyclada, No. 175. 



Small tree or large shrub, 15 feet high. Spread- 

 ing branches with somewhat weeping habit. Un- 

 dergrowth of the Rain forests. 



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

 up to 6 x 2| inches; obovate, acuminate, glab- 

 rous, thin. 



Flowers. — Terminal compound cymes of white, 

 slightly fragrant flowers. 



Rays. — 400, dark yellow or brown, of which 50 

 are conspicuous and coarse, and the remainder 

 very fine and some indistinct. The coarse ones 

 are very straight and have only little kinks to 

 get round some of the pores. The fine ones are 

 sinuous and are broken by the por 



es. They do 

 not show up much on the quarter. The 



coarse 



ones are about l-60th inch deep, 

 to 4,500, fairly evenly scattered. 



Pores. 



3,000 



(2-4). 



radially septate 



General. — A mouse-grey wood with 



Solution wood 



Single and 



Soft tissue. — Absent. 



a 



gram. 



green precipitate, 

 foot. 



faint 



Cuts firm 



colourless, very 



; 35 lb. per cubic 



Bark.- — Grey, somewhat scaly. Solution, tawny; 



blue precipitate. 

 Locality. — Rain forests of Northern Division, up 



to 1,500 feet. 

 Date. — Flowers in July. 

 Native name. — Guguma (Buna). 



Material 



Flowers and leaves. 



Timonius sp., No. 383. 



Small shrub, 6 to 7 feet high. 



Leaves.- — Opposite. 



Flowers. — White ; very fragrant ; in threes. 



Locality. — Mt. Obree to Laruni spur, 6,500 feet 



Date.— February, 1923. 



Material collected. — Leaves and flowers. 



Sarcocephalus cordatus Miq., Nos. 19 and 158. 



A tall tree with a slender bole, 8 feet girth, 60 feet 

 bole, 90 feet over all. No buttresses. 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite; petiole, If inches, 

 twisted; blade, 8 x 5-15 x 9| inches; ovate- 

 cordate, acuminate, entire, glabrous above and 

 a felt of soft hairs beneath. 



Bark. — § inch thick; light brown. Very pustular; 

 crumbling; ridged; often twisted spirally round 

 bole. Inner bark yellow; corky; bitter to taste. 



conspicuous on the quarter. Pores. — Conspicn 



ous. 

 2-3. 



2,400-2,500 single and radially septate 1 , 

 Evenly scattered except where concentric 



Soft tissue. 



narrow bands of small pores occur. 



— Absent. General. — A pale-yellow or white 

 timber, uniform grain. Solution wood colour- 

 less, no precipitate. Cuts soft and clean ; 33 lb. 

 per cubic foot. 



Yellow Variety of Wood. 



Rays. — 250, yellow, up to l-25th inch; show up 

 as slightly darker oblongs on quarter; slightly 

 sinuous around pores. Pores. — -Conspicuous, 

 4,000 to 5,000, mostly single, a few radially sep- 

 tate (2) evenly scattered. Soft tissue. — Absent. 

 General. — A saffron-coloured timber. Solution 



wood pale, no precipitate. Cuts soft and clean; 

 39 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Veimauri. 



Date. 



May, 



1922. 



Native names. — Sabi (Suku), Tiga (Buna), Ziga 

 (Binendele), Pepoia (Vailala). 



Remarks. — The bark has a medicinal value. u Tinc- 

 ture of the bark is somewhat fluorescent; may be 

 used medicinally in eases where simple bitters 

 are indicated; appears to be useful as calumba." 

 F. L. Bancroft, M.B., Queensland Flora, p. 741. 

 " Fruit eaten. Bark soaked in water produces 

 vomiting and cure in cases of sore stomach." 

 Roth in the same publication. "The wood also 



furnishes a 



good 



dye." Bailey, Queensland 



an 



Flora, p. 741. The wood is a useful pine sub- 

 stitute, and is well known in Queensland 

 Leiehhardt Pine. 



Material collected. — Leaves, wood and hark. 



straight Sarcocephalus sp., No. 024. 



A tall tree, 7| feet in girth with a 75-ft. bole and 

 90 feet over all. Buttressed to 8 feet. 



Leaves. — Simple, opposite; petiole, 1 inch to 1*J 

 inches; blade, 6 to 1(3 inches by 51 to 8 inches; 

 ovate to broadly lanceolate; somewhat cordate 

 at base; acuminate; a felt of hairs below, glab- 

 rous above; midrib and petiole very stout; 

 venation very clear and regular. 



Flowers. — A composite head l£ to 2 inches in dia- 



meter. 



Iniu 



r 



Bark. — Yellow-brown, ridged, pustular. 



bark white. 

 Wood. — Sap undefined, white. Axes easily, splits 



well on the back. 



Rays. 



-220, of which 50-60 are coarse and the rest 

 are fine. 1-GOth inch deep; show up as thin lines 

 on quarter. Pores. — Conspicuous, 1,300 to 2,000; 



single, but more often radially septate (2-3) in 

 zones of less or more porous wood. Soft tissue. 



— Absent. General. — A yellow, straight -grained 



wood; solution wood colourless, no precipitate; 

 cuts soft; 27 II). per cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Yalu. 



Date. — December, 1923. 



Native name. — Aruntimf (Yalu). 



Remarks, — There is another sarcocephalus with 



yellow wood and fruit eaten by pigs. This one 

 is not eaten. See Papuan Nos. 19 and 158. 



Mater 



collected. — Li 



wood, bark. 



Solution, yellow to orange; no precipitate, or I'ncaria ap., No. 417. 



faint traces of precipitate. 



Sap undefined, pale yellow or white to 



W 



dark yellow. 

 White Variety of Wood. 



Eays. — 180-200, yellow, slightly sinuous, some- 

 times prominent, sometimes obscure, very in- 



F.12389.— 10 



A creeper. 



Leaves and stem. — Hai 



irv. 



Flowers. — Red calyx tube and greeny-yellow 

 petals; in heads of indefinite number on l^in. 

 pedicel. 



Locality. — Mcnari; 4,000 feet. 



