Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9202 Rubiaceae 
Gardenia lamingtonii F.M. Bailey 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, Metroxylon-dominant 
swamp forest adjacent to Waro and Ubogo villages, elev. 425 m, canopy 
somewhat open, lat. 6 deg. 32’ S x long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
w. Carallia 9201 ; an epiphytic tree; outer bark scaly, decorticating; wood 
brownish-yellow, dense; twigs slender, reddish-brown to pale brown, 
lenticels pustulate; stipules yellow-green, long-acuminate, caducous; 
leaves opposite (often appearing alternate by abscission), coriaceous, 
glabrous, adaxially dark shiny green x abaxially medium green; lamina 
elliptic, typical blade 13.5 cm x 5.25 cm, apex acuminate, base 
cuneate_often subequal; venation arcuately penninerved, the laterals in 
6-8 pairs, finely areolate between, major veins prominulous on both 
surfaces, yellow; petioles mostly 15 mm, flat or channelled above; fruits 
globose, 5 cm dia., epicarp orange with brown corky pustules, the fruit 
disintegrating to a fascicle of dry arching fibers after seed release; 
flowers solitary, axillary, showy; calyx tubular and sheathing, c. 6.5 cm 
long, limb obliquely truncate with white spreading hairs esp. at the apex; 
corolla gamopetalous, pale yellow and glabrous, 15-17 cm long, 
salverform, tube very slender, glabrous outside, pubescent only at the 
throat and interior staminate interval; limb of 6 linear-oblong lobes, each 
bright orange, divaricate, glabrous, with age becoming revolute on the 
margins, segments contorted in bud, to c. 40 mm long at maturity; 
androecium of 6 stamens, epipetalous below the throat, anthers linear, 2- 
celled, 15 mm long, dorsifixed, sessile; ovary inferior, unilocular; style 
simple, slender, glabrous becoming velutinous near the throat; stigma 
capitate and sulcate. 
flowers bottled at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9202 
date: Sept. 11,1993 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9204 Burseraceae 
Canarium acutifolium (DC.) Merr. 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, Metroxylon-dominant 
swamp forest adjacent to Waro and Ubogo villages, elev. 425 m, canopy 
somewhat open, lat. 6 deg. 32’ S x long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
with sequence starting 9201; large canopy tree, outer trunkbark pale 
brown and flaky, inner bark stramineous, wood white and dense; twigs 
robust, subterete, irregularly furrowed, surface pale greyish-brown often 
with sooty-colored patches, conspicuously raised lenticels; stipules paired 
at base of petiole, subulate, greyish-brown and glabrous; leaves alternate, 
imparipinnate, mostly 4-5 jugate; lamina dry, coriaceous, glabrous, 
concolorously yellow-green both sides; leaflets elliptic-oblong, proximally 
reduced otherwise essentially conform, not geniculate, typical large blade 
22 x 10 cm, apex narrowly acuminate, base truncate to rounded_often 
unequal sometimes suboblique; venation divergently pinnate, main veins 
yellow, prominulous on both sides, laterals generally 16 - 18 pairs, 
opposed or not; petiolules 10-20 mm, terete, not swollen, estipelate; 
rachis 20 - 25 cm, shiny green, rhomboid in XS, surfaces lineate, 
glabrous; petiole stout, to c. 20 cm long; flowers not seen; infructescence 
axillary, paniculiform, 20 - 30 cm total length, all axes woody; fruits 
drupaceous, ovoid, typical 13 mm x 10 mm (dry); epicarp green or bluish- 
green, glabrous; mesocarp dry and yellowish; seed single, stony. 
NCI screening code: U44Z-8466-N, -8467-0, -8468-P, -8469-Q, -8470-R; 
corresponding to LF, RT, TWD, TBK+RTWD, TW+BR. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9204 
date; Sept. 11,1993 
det.: WT 
