Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9301 Apocynaceae 
Parsonsia sp. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9 mile 
settlement, elev. 200-400 m. 
woody climber into tall canopy; lactiferous; stems terete, twining, green 
with brown pustular lenticels, nodes slightly thickened and with an 
interpetiolar line of scalelike teeth; leaves opposite, glabrous, coriaceous 
to papyraceous, very dark green above, light green beneath; fruits not 
seen; inflorescence terminal and axillary, paniculiform, pedunculate, all 
axes green and puberulent, variously bracteate; flowers 5-merous, dark 
brown stigulose; calyx cleft _halfway; corolla monopetalous, urceolate, 
yellow on the glabrate limb (brown elsewhere), throat obscured by 
acroscopic hairs; flowers bottled; at A. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9301 
date: Dec. 13, 1993 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9304 Oleaceae 
Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxb. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9 mile 
settlement, elev. 200-400 m. 
15 m subcanopy tree; outer bark pale brown, mostly smooth, wood 
stramineous, soft; twigs green, slightly compressed, lenticels pustulate; 
leaves opposite, exstipulate, glabrate, coriaceous, adaxially dark green 
and ceraceous x abaxially dull yellow green; petiole yellow green, 
flattened above, proximally swollen; midveins distinctly white to yellow in 
color; fruits not seen; inflorescence axillary, paniculiform, branching in 3’s, 
to c. 13 cm long, shortly pedunculate, all axes green with black spots, 
glabrous, terete or angulate, bracteate; flowers glabrous, perianth 
dichlamydeous, 4-merous; calyx green, gamosepalous; corolla 
choripetalous, fulvous, valvate, petal margins distinctly incrassate, 
adaxially with a subapical callosity or appendage; androecium of 2 
opposed stamens alternate the petals; ovary superior and glabrous, style 
short or lacking, stigma capitate. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9304 
date: Dec. 21,1993 
det.: WT 
