Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10251 Rubiaceae 
Neonauclea brassii S. Moore 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills; spur ridge above the foot track 
between Garuka and Ambunti; in Glei clan territory; hill forest at 
altimeter elev. 450’ (137 m); near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
w. collection sequence 10245-10254; subcanopy tree; small buttress 
present; outer bark scaly and weakly decorticating; wood orange- 
brown, very dense, faintly scented; stipules spathulate, glabrous, 
keeled, caducous; leaves opposite, glabrous, thick but brittle, adaxial 
surface dark green x abaxially pale yellow-green; infructescence 
terminal and axillary, heads globose. 
Waskuk name = ‘phoo.’ Used for posts and house construction. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1872-U, -1873-V, -1874-W, -1875-X, - 
1876-Y, -1877-Z; corresponding to RTBK, RTWD, TWD, TBK, LF+RT, 
BR; 6 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10251 
(= Regalado no. 1465) 
date: July 3, 1995 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10252 Mimosaceae 
Paraserianthes faicataria (L.) Nielsen ssp. falcataria 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills; spur ridge above the foot track 
between Garuka and Ambunti; in Glei clan territory; hill forest at 
altimeter elev. 450’ (137 m); near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
w. collection sequence 10245-10254; unbuttressed canopy tree; 
herbage covered with small black ants; outer bark pale brown, lineate 
but not fissured; inner bark pinkish; wood straw; leaves spiral, 
bipinnate, puberulent, concolorous medium green both sides; leaf 
rachis with raised glands; pods oblong, plane, dull green. 
Waskuk name = ‘yau-somb.’ Useful only as firewood. Local villagers 
recognize two species; the second being called ‘taup yau-somb,’ and 
described as having especially hard wood. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1878-A, -1879-C, -1880-F, -1881-G, -1882- 
H, -1883-1; corresponding to LF+FR, TWD, TBK, RTBK, RTWD+prop 
RT, BR; 7 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10252 
(= Regalado no. 1466) 
date: July 3, 1995 
det.: WT 
