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No. 240 



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A large tree, 8 feet in girth, with an unbuttressed 

 bole of 75 feet, and reaching an over all height of 

 120 feet. 



Leaves. — Compound, alternate; stalk, 6 to 12 

 inches; leaflets, alternate; petiole, j$ inch; 

 blade, 2^ to 4 inches x 1 to If inches; asymmet- 

 rically ovate, acuminate, glabrous, thin; twig 

 grey-brown, covered with small, red-brown len- 

 ticels. 



Bark.— i 



shedding 





inch thick, nigger-brown, scaly, scales 



in fairly large plates made up of 



numerous thicknesses of papery scales; inner 



bark yellow; solution colourless, faint green. 



Wood. — Sap 2 inches, white ; heart light yellow. 



Rays. — 290, very indistinct, owing to white colour, 



show up very little on quarter, sinuous. Pores. 



■Clear, 13,000, very small, immersed in soft 



tissue; more often radially septate (2-5) than 



single. Soft tissue. — Surrounds pores. General. 

 Though a pale yellow when wet, it is almost 



ivory white when dry; rather cross-grained; 



solution wood colourless, no precipitate; cuts 



rather hard; 48 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Hydrographer's Range, below Embi 



Village. 

 Date. — August, 1922. 

 Native name. — Pohana (Horonda). 

 Remarks. — A medium, hard, straight-grained 



wood. 



Material collected. — Leaves and bark. 



No. 272 



Largo tree, 8 feet girth, 100 feet over all, and bole 



of 70 feet. TJnbuttressed. 

 Leaves. — Compound, alternate, exstipulate. Stalks, 



12 inches; brown, white, or light-brown lenticels. 



Leaflets simple, sub-opposite, and a terminal one; 



petiole, i to f inch, rusty hairs; blade, 2\ to 



5| inches x 2 to 3 inches; ovate, acuminate; 



midrib and veins covered with rusty hairs below; 



upper surface glaudulous, scabrous; leaflets in- 

 crease in size from base to tip of stalk. 



Flowers. 



panicles. 



Buds; heavy, terminal erect cymose 



Bark. — £ inch thick, grey, inner bark red-brown; 

 solution yellow, pale green precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap undefined, white to rose coloured. 



Rays.— Clear, 80, yellow; a little sinuous, but 

 chiefly when crossing soft tissue lines; l-15th 

 inch deep, showing up well on quarter as wavy 

 satin linos. Pores.— Conspicuous ; 1,500 to 

 2,000; single and radially septate (2). Soft 

 tissue. — Short, broken, very indistinct lines join 

 up rays; sometimes they are so close as to give 

 the effect of a continuous zone or narrow 



of sofe tissue. General. 





ring 

 \. pleasing mahogany- 

 grained wood, light and soft, and very fissile 

 along lines of soft tissue. Solution wood colour- 

 less, very pale green precipitate. Cuts firm; 

 28 lb. per cubic foot. 

 Locality. — Uberi Rest-house, 2,500 feet. 



Taubobu (Seligina). 



Date. — August. 

 Native name. 



Remarks. — A very soft, open-grained timber. 



Material collected. — Leaves, flower buds 



bark. 



wood, 



No. 276 



Large 





tree, 6£ feet girth, 50 feet bole, 100 feet 

 over all. Small buttresses or spur roots. 



inch, 



Leaves. — Simple, alternate; petiole, 

 swollen: blade, 5 to 8£ 



2 



elliptical to ovate, acuminate, glabrous; midrib 

 and veins minutely warty. 



Bark. — 3-1 6th inch thick, mottled grey and brown, 

 scaly; scales coming off in irregular patches 

 8 inches across, leaving the surface more or less 

 scrolled; inner bark red, streaked with white; 

 exudes latex sparingly; solution colourless, faint 

 green precipitate. 



Wood.— Sap ill-defined, about li inches; white, 

 merging to light red, then dark red. 



Rays. — 370, a dark red-brown; very sinuous indeed 

 around pores, and broken by them. Pores. 



• Clear. 



2,500 to 



3,000, 



more often septate (2) 



than single; 300 to 500 pores to the square inch 

 are filled with red resin. Soft tissue. — Red- 

 brown lines, coarser than rays, link up the pores; 

 they are very wavy, average 170 to the inch, and 

 are much broken ; here and there about one to 

 the inch, two or three continuous concentric 



lines 



occur 

 red-brown heavy wood, 



close together. General. — A dense 



showing 



little or no 



grain. Solution wood colourless, faint green pre- 

 cipitate. Cuts very hard, leaving shiny surface; 

 64 lb. per cubic foot. 



Locality. — Baroe, Delta of Purari. 



Date.— Collected in October, 1922. 



Native names. — Ulawaipa (Vailala), Ara 

 (Evara). 



Remarks. — A sound constructional timber, and 

 possibly good for cabinet work if it dries light 



enough, 

 on Warn 

 Damoni, 



Being used in the construction of mill 



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Material collected. 



Leaves, bark, wood. 



No. 277 



Large tree, 9 feet in girth, 60 feet of bole, and 

 120 feet over all. Small buttresses up to 4^ 

 feet. 



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

 blade 4 to 7 inches x 2| to 3 inches; elliptical 

 to obovate, acuminate, ^entire, glabrous. A 

 double marginal vein. Twig attacked by gall 

 insect at axils of leaves. 



Bark. — J inch thick, yellow-brown; scaly; scales 

 for the most part papery, though here and there 

 they shed in fairly large stiff pieces. Inner 

 bark immediately below the scales, bright green ; 

 within yellow. Solution pale yellow, muddy blue 

 precipitate. 



Wood. — Sap ill-defined, 



for 4 inches to a yellow-brown, then comes the 



starting yellow, deepens 



heart, which is a very dark brown. 



Rays. — 230, brown; sinuous around pores; do not 



5,000 to 6,000, 



*es. 



show up on the quarter. Poi 

 ' single and radially septate (2). Soft tissue. 

 Short broken lines link up the pores indistinctly, 

 while here and there rather more definite lines 

 occur, which give the illusion of continuous 

 rungs, but are really much broken. General.— 

 .Mouse-brown wood, rather cross-grained. Solu- 

 tion wood colourless, brown precipitate with a 

 blue tinge. Cuts hard; 25 lb. per cubic foot. 



Date. — Collected October 



Xath 



re 



(Evara). 

 Remarks. — 



1922. 

 name.— Harikou (Vailala), 



Kaipa 



A medium hard wood. Works easily, 

 and should prove a useful cabinet wood, as it 

 shows a pretty grain. When first cut it has a 

 smell similar to Ocotea hull at a. 



Wat 



collected. — Leaves, bark, wood. 



