Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10155 Rhamnaceae 
Gouania (between javanica and leptostachya) 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills, buttress ridge above Garuka 
village (from the foot track towards Waskuk), advanced regrowth in 
foothill forest, elev. 200-250’ est, (60-75 m); near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 
142 deg. 44’ E long. 
w. 10154; common, populations fruiting; woody climber typically 
draped as a iayer over tree crowns; stems terete, cirrhous; leaves 
alternate, chartaceous, hirtellous throughout, adaxial surface dark dull 
green x abaxially slightly lighter and lepidote; lamina ovate, margins 
crenulate or serrulate, base cordate; pinnativeined with laterals 
equispaced and arcuate; infructescence racemiform, ascending, 
peduncled, all axes tomentellous; fruits 3-alate, epicarp green turning 
brown, shortly hairy. 
Waskuk name and use not recorded. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0892-F, -0893-G; corresponding to RT, 
stem; 5 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10155 
(= Regalado no. 1394) 
det.: WT, May 1997 
date: June 25, 1995 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10156 Sapindaceae 
Cupaniopsis macropetala Radik. 
keys to this result on Adema 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills, buttress ridge above Garuka village 
(from the foot track towards Waskuk), advanced regrowth in foothill 
forest, elev. 200-250’ est. (60-75 m); near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 
44’ E long. 
with 10155 et seq.; locally common in secondary growth; populations 
generally sterile: only a few inds. flowering; understory subarborescent 
<10 m height (said by locals to occur as a large-sized tree when 
mature), not myrmecophilous, sparingly branched, the stems 
channelled; vegetative parts densely pubescent, hairs simple and 
mostly spreading, lacking stellate tufts; leaves pinnately compound, 
spiral, coriaceous, bullate, dentate, adaxial surface dark dull green x 
abaxially yellow-green; leaflets oblong, typical 12.5 cm x 5.5 cm, 
acuminate, base rounded; venation pinnate and equispaced, laterals 
typically 1 5 pairs, each vein free and terminating in a serration, abaxial 
costa occasionally with linear glands; leaf rachis striate; inflorescence 
axillary, congested, about 2 cm length, bracteate, scarcely branched, 
rachis obscured by the globose buds, indumentum dense; one flower 
dissected for examination: perianth 5-merous; sepals rounded and 
concave; petals narrower but approx, same length as the calyx, 
acuminate, adaxially each petal with 2 hairy scales; stamens 8: 7 long 
and one short, inserted within a fleshy and glabrous disk; anthers 
basifixed, filaments patently hirtellous; pistillode 2-fid and pubescent; 
fruits not seen. 
Waskuk name and use not recorded. Flowers bottled at A. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0894-H, -0895-1, -0896-J, -0897-K; 
corresponding to RT, BR, LF+TW+BR, SWD; 4 herbarium duplicates 
distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10156 
(= Regalado no. 1395) 
date: June 25, 1995 
det.: WT 
