Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9309 Myrsinaceae 
Conandrium polyanthum (K. Schum. & Laut.) Mez 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, hills near 9 mile settlement; disturbed 
lowland forest at elev. 200-400 m, moderate slopes. 
with 9307; understory treelet c. 5 m, twigs terete, pale brown, glabrous, 
smooth; leaves alternate, spiral, exstipulate, spreading, glabrate, opaque 
punctulate on transmitted light, adaxial surface dark shining green, 
sometimes sub-bullate x abaxially light green; lamina elliptic, typical 
blade 17.5 cm x 7.5 cm, apex acute-acuminate, margin entire, base 
acute and equal; petiole 1-1.5 cm, glabrous, green or brown, distinctly 
flattened adaxially; venation unicostate, penniveined, laterals numerous, 
>25 pairs but feeble and somewhat obscure on the fresh herbage, not 
obviously reticulate, costa flat above, prominulous below; fruits not seen; 
inflorescence: terminal, axillary, or extra-axillary; paniculate, c. 12 cm 
long, pedunculate, axes green and glabrous, not obviously bracteate; 
flowers lax, glabrous, pedicels to nearly 1 cm, glabrous; perianth 
bichlamydeous, 5-merous, dextrorsely contorted on both series, calyx 
cleft nearly to the base, segments ovate, green, with hyaline margins 
often fimbriate; petals oblanceolate, red with black spots, margin basally 
fimbriate; androecium of 5 stamens opposite the petals, fleshy, the 
anthers dilate and apparently sessile, coherent around the style, 
poricidal, outer surface yellow green with black spots, red at the 
connivent apices; gynoecium: ovary superior, globose, the style simple, 
terminal, subulate, stigma punctiform, placentation apparently free 
central, ovules numerous in a single locule. 
flowers bottled 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9309 
date: Dec. 13, 1993 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
93 1 0 Pittosporaceae 
Pittosporum sinuatum Blume 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, hills near 9 mile settlement, elev. 200- 
400 m in lowland forest. 
understory shrub 1-1.5 m height; leaves whorled, to 6-7 per verticel, 
papery, short hairy on veins, adaxial surface dark glossy green, bullate- 
rugose x abaxially dull medium green with all veins prominent, exstipulate 
but with the bracts from fallen flowers often stipuliform; fruits immature, 
ellipsoid, 4x3 cm, angulate, 4-5 alate in XS view, shortly stipitate, epicarp 
glossy yellow green; inflorescence with an involucre of linear bracts; 
perianth bichlamydeous, usually 5-merous; calyx essentially free, pale 
whitish-yellow; corolla sometimes to 7 petals, coherent in the lower part 
into an apparent tube, entirely yellow; androecium equal in no. to the 
petals and alternating; ovary ellipsoid, non-stipitate, hairy; style with 3-fid 
stigma. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9310 
date: Dec. 26, 1993 
det.: WT 
