Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9273 Gesneriaceae 
Boea lawesii H.O. Forbes 
Morobe province, Atzera Range, disturbed lowland forest near the 8 mile 
settlement; elev. 200-400 m, lat. 6 deg. 41' S x long. 146 deg. 57’ E. 
with 9271 ; saxicolous herb to slightly >50 cm total length; stems terete, 
articulate, light brown, sericeous or puberulent, ascending; leaves 
opposite, crowded at the stem tips, thickly herbaceous, withering quickly 
when cut, adaxiai surface dull medium green and silky puberulent x 
abaxially light green and densely white sericeous; lamina elliptic to 
lanceolate, typical blade 13.5 x 5.5 cm, apex acute, margin serrulate to 
repand, base oblique; venation penninerved, laterals in 6-8 pairs, oblique, 
mostly straight or slightly arcuate toward the margins, not noticeably 
ramifying, plexus invisible; petioles to 6 cm long, yellow green and 
pubescent, obliquely ascending, upper side flattened, at the base with a 
beard of long interpetiolar hairs; mature flowers not seen; infructescence 
assurgent, dichasial, axillary from foliated or aphyllous nodes, 30-35 cm 
long; peduncle light green turning brown, slender, to c. 25 cm length, all 
infructescence axes softly hairy, bracteate; the bracts foliose, pubescent, 
centrifugally decrescent; pedicels and calyx purple, puberulous; fruits 
linear, a spirally-wound capsule; seeds miniscule, brown, elliptic in 
shape, beaked at both ends. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9273 
date: Nov. 23, 1993 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9274 Rubiaceae 
Hydnophytum mosleyanum Becc. 
Morobe province, Bumayong, volunteer on cultivated trees, elev. <20 m. 
anthouse epiphyte; stems to 1.1 m length, weakly ascending, arching, or 
pendant, terete, mostly unbranched, clustered; surface greyish-brown and 
smooth; leaves opposite, succulent, spreading, inconspicuously and 
caducously stipulate, glabrous, adaxiai surface dull yellow-green x 
abaxially concolorous; lamina oblanceolate, typical blade 13.5 x 7 cm, 
apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, base obtuse; lateral venation in 4-6 
pairs, oblique and opposed, straight then curving at the margins and often 
closing, minor veins invisible, costa v. slightly raised above, laterals flush, 
below with the midvein flush and other nervation obscure; fruits shiny red; 
flowers on paired axillary stubs; the mounds stemlike, diverging, bearing 
flowers/fruits at the apex; bract hairs numerous and light brown; calyx 
synsepalous, the tube truncate, greenish-white, puberulent, ciliolate on 
the margin; corolla gamopetalous, entirely white, petals 4, sub-oblong, 
puberulent at the apices, hairs diminishing basiscopically and becoming 
essentially glabrous on the outer surface of the tube; throat densely white 
pilose, proximally puberulous; stamens 4, epipetalous at the throat, erect, 
basifixed, alternate the petals, no filaments, thecae 2, opening lengthwise, 
introrse; stigma bilobed, papillose, white; style white and glabrous; ovary 
rounded, shining green, glabrous. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9274 
date: Nov. 24, 1993 
det.: WT 
