Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9322 Lauraceae 
Neolitsea brassii Allen 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9-11 mile 
settlement, foothill forest, <300 m elev. 
tree to c. 10 m height, inner bark off-white, wood yellowish and dense; 
crown virgate, the twigs slender, terete, glabrous; leaves alternate, spiral, 
somewhat conferted, glabrous, coriaceous, pellucid punctulate, shiny 
yellow green above, glaucescent beneath; venation pinnatinerved, 
reticulated, plexus minutely cancellate, major veins embossed on both 
surfaces; fruits not seen; inflorescence in sessile fascicles, axillary or on 
aphyllous stem, yellow; involucral bracts calyculate, cotyloid, glabrous, 4, 
decussate; flowers 4-5 per head, homoclamydeous; tepals 4, petaloid, 
venose, tube c. 5 mm long, pilose, limb spreading, segments hairy 
abaxially, glabrous within; flowers unisexual, male: stamens 6 or 9 in 
whorls of 3, apparently no staminodes, epipetalous at top of tube, 
filaments pilose, hairs diminishing distally, innermost? whorl biglandular, 
the glands geminate, spreading auriculate, sessile, anthers clavate, 
sparsely pilose, thecae 4, anthercells in distinct concavities opening by 
flaps; gynoecium not evident— rudimentary or otherwise; female flower 
not seen in bottled material, taxon ?dioecious. 
bottled coll at A. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9322 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9323 Solanaceae 
Solanum dunalianum Gaud. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, inland from the 9-11 mile settlement, 
foothill forest at elev. <300 m. 
c. 1 .5 m shrub; stems light green, glabrous, echinate, white and pithy in 
XS; twigs slender, angulate, glabrous, inermous; leaves alternate or 
paired with a reduced member, approximate, glabrous, exstipulate, 
herbaceous, somewhat concolorous yellow-green both sides; 
inflorescence axillary, a circinnoid raceme 4 cm long, pedunculate, axes 
glabrate, not noticeably bracteate; flowers radial, 4-merous, perianth 
dichlamydeous; calyx accrescent in fruit, sparsely hairy to glabrate; corolla 
pink-blue, stellate pubescent on both surfaces, ribbed, petal margins 
incrassate, apex with an uncinate callosity; stamens alternate the petals, 
anthers erect, basifixed, yellow, poricidal; ovary superior and glabrous, 
style terete, stigma slightly expanded; berry globose, epicarp smooth, red 
at maturity. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9323 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: D.E. Symon, July 1998 
