Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10199 Rutaceae 
Melicope sp. (latifolia group) 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills, first buttress ridge above the foot 
track between Garuka and Waskuk, territory of the Glei clan; hiil forest 
at altimeter elev. 200’ (60 m); near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
with collection sequence 10196-10201; subcanopy tree on steep 
slopes; twigs angulate, puberulent; leaves opposite, digitately 3- 
foliolate, coriaceous, adaxial surface dark dull green x abaxially 
medium green, hairs canescent; infructescence infrafoliar, panicled, 
puberulent throughout; capsules with 3 or 4 bivalved cocci, dull green, 
shortly hairy, each segment with one glossy black seed. 
Waskuk name = ‘enganminuk.’ The crushed leaves are used for 
cleaning hands. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1015-O, -1016-P, -1017-Q, -1018-R, - 
1019-S; corresponding to SWD, RTWD, SBK+sapwood+BR, 
RTBK+RT+BR, LF; 5 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10199 
(= Regalado no. 1427) 
date: June 28, 1995 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 0200 Moraceae 
Ficus calodictya Summerh. 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills, first buttress ridge above the foot 
track between Garuka and Waskuk, territory of the Glei clan; hill forest 
at altimeter elev. 200’ (60 m); near 4 deg. IT S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
with collection sequence 10196-10201; woody climber in the high 
canopy, sparsely lactiferous; stems highly ramifying, twigs slender; 
stipules 5 mm, linear-acuminate, fugacious; leaves spiral, firm, 
conspicuously areolate, glabrous, adaxial surface dark dull green x 
abaxially yellow-green; figs fascicled, minute, receptacle yellow-green, 
asymmetric and widest near the summit. 
Waskuk name = ‘poiwank ser pok.’ The dry wood burns slowly and is 
useful for carrying a fire from one site to another. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1002-Y, -1003-Z, -1004-A, -1005-C, -1006- 
F; corresponding to SWD, FR+TW, BR+stem, RT+RTBK+RTWD, 
LF+stem; 10 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10200 
(= Regalado no. 1424) 
date: June 28, 1995 
det: WT 
