Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9332 Apocynaceae 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, lowland forest near the 9-11 mile 
settlement, foothill forest, <300 m elev. 
woody climber into high canopy; lactiferous; twigs dark reddish brown, 
terete, glabrous, pustulate/minutely tuberculate, twining; leaves opposite, 
fleshy, glabrous, upper side glossy green x glaucescent beneath; petiole 
green, glabrous, at the base the stem surcurrent into an annular scale; 
fruits not seen; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, mostly 5-6 cm, 
pedunculate, bracteate, all axes glabrous; flowers yellow to light green, 
actinomorphic, bisexual, 5-merous, dichlarnydeous; calyx gamosepalous, 
lobes triangular, puberulent or with minute glands; corolla choripetalous, 
rotate, turned to the left, petals incrassate, adaxially hispidulose, 
abaxially glabrous; stamens alternate to the petals, filaments columnar, 
inserted into a dilate base with scattered hairs, anthers closely appressed 
to the stigma in a radiate pattern; ovary glabrous, crowned by a robust 
style distally expanded into a 5-angulate stigma with a spathulate 
translator in the angles. 
bottled coll at A. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9332 
date: Jan., 1994 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9334 Buddleiaceae/Loganiaceae 
Buddleia asiatica Lour. 
Morobe province; Atzera Range, inland from the 9-11 mile settlement, 
foothill forest at elev. <300 m. 
heliophytic shrub; wood whitish; leaves opposite, dark green above, 
abaxially white tomentulose; spikes axillary, c. 20 cm long, shortly 
pedunculate; seeds minute, numerous. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 9334 
date: Jan., 1994 
det.: WT 
