Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9223 Sapindaceae 
Toechima erythrocarpum F. Muell. 
Southern Highlands province, Kutubu, limestone ridge S of Ubogo 
village, mature hill forest, 425-500 m elev., near 6° 33’ S, 143° 12’ E. 
with sequence starting 921 1 ; subcanopy tree, outer trunkbark dark 
brown, transversely lined, wood straw; branchlets robust, hollow, ant- 
inhabited, apices brown-tomentulose, channelled, terminal bud stiffly 
erect; leaves alternate, pinnately compound, exstipulate, to ca 60 cm 
long, axes densely pubescent, striate; leaflets alternate, dry-herbaceous, 
adaxially glossy dark green, abaxially dull dark green, bifacially 
puberulent on veins, elliptic, the distal blades generally largest, to ca 23.5 
x 9 cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, base cuneate to subtruncate, 
often unequal; venation with 13-17 arcuate laterals, regularly spaced, 
comose in the nerve axils, veins weakly impressed above, raised below, 
petiolules ca 10 mm long, proximally swollen; flowers not seen; 
infructescence from woody callosities on the stem, racemose, rachis 
stout, yellow-green, striate, densely pubescent, generally ca 10 cm long, 
bracts inconspicuous, cuneate, hairy; fruits trigonous, broadly or acutely 
angled, 30 x 28 mm, glossy yellow-green, glabrous, locules 3, valves 7 
mm thick (spirit material), seed 8 mm long, arillode small, positioned at 
the funiculus, testa smooth and glossy. 
NCI screening code: U44Z-8490-0, -8491 -P, -8492-Q, -8493-R, -8494-S, 
corresponding to TWD, TBK, RT, LF, TW+BR; 5 herbarium duplicate 
sets distributed through NCI. 
carpological collection made. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9225 
date: Sept. 13, 1993 
det K. Demas, Sept 93 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9224 Clusiaceae 
Calophyllum sp. 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, limestone ridge S of Ubogo 
village, toward the Hegigio River, mature hill forest at elev. c. 425 m, lat. 6 
deg. 33’ S x long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
w. 9211; c. 5 m understory treelet, outer stembark yellow-brown, inner 
bark white but oxidizing to brown; wood dense, light brown; twigs shining 
green, terete, glabrous; leaves opposite, exstipulate, firm, adaxial surface 
dark shining green x abaxially yellow-green, glabrous above, below brown 
puberulous on the midrib; lamina linear-elliptic, typical blade 19x5 cm, 
apex acuminate, margin entire, base acute; lateral nervation closely 
parallel, perpendicularly divaricate, costa prominulous above, prominent 
and fulvous beneath; petiole 1 - 1.5 cm long, transversely lined, flattened 
on upper side; flowers not seen; fruits mostly single on a short rachis to 2 
cm length, the axis shiny green and glabrous; drupe subglobose to ovoid, 
29 mm x 25 mm, epicarp dull bluish-green, glabrous; mesocarp white and 
rather firm; seed one, stony; testa brown, in cross section 4-angulate or 
alate. 
one dissected drupe bottled, at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9224 
date: Sept. 13, 1993 
