Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10283 Dichapetalaceae 
Dichapetalum timoriense (DC.) Boerl. 
East Sepik Province; Waskuk Hills; buttress ridge above the foot-track 
between Langu and Garuka villages, in territory of the Amaki clan; 
elev. approx. 600’ (c. 185 m), near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E 
long. 
w. collection sequence 10277-10286; woody ?climber, single sighting; 
twigs stellately hairy, terete, orange-brown; all indumentum harsh and 
somewhat irritant; stipules linear, fugacious, inconspicuous; leaves 
spirally arranged, firm becoming brittle when mature, adaxial surface 
dark glossy green x abaxially light green; lamina elliptic, typical blade 
19 x 9 cm, apex acute with the costa excurrently apiculate, margin 
subentire, base unequal; venation pinnate, the major laterals in 5-9 
pairs, reticulum lax; infructescence axillary, dichotomously and 
sparingly branched or not, peduncle + rachides c. 4 cm long, all axes 
with indumentum as the stem; drupes orange-yellow, misshapen or 
trigonous, indurate, suture lines very faint or absent; epicarp coarsely 
hairy. 
tokples name (Waskuk) = 'asanaka pok;’ said to have no use. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1963-T, -1964-U; corresponding to LF+RT, 
stem; 3 herbarium duplicates and 1 set distributed through NCI. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Regaladol 0,283 
(=Regalado no. 1 ,490) 
det.: W.T. 
date: July 5, 1995 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10284 Burseraceae 
Garuga floribunda Decne 
East Sepik Province; Waskuk Hills; buttress ridge above the foot-track 
between Langu and Garuka villages, in territory of the Amaki clan; elev. 
approx. 600’ (c. 185 m), near 4 deg. 11’ S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E long. 
w. collection sequence 10277-10286; deciduous canopy tree, 
buttressed, bole enveloped by strangling fig, inner bark reddish-brown, 
wood stramineous; twigs robust and cylindrical; stipules elongate, 
caducous, pseudostipulate on the petiole, stipels present on the rachis; 
leaves newly flushing, apically crowded, imparipinnate, variously hairy; 
leaflets immature, oblong-lanceolate, apex attenuate, margin crenulate- 
serrulate, base usually rounded and unequal; lateral veins numerous 
and equispaced; inflorescence paniculate, large and open, axillary, 
pedunculate; rachides bracteate and puberulent; flowers: bisexual, 
dichlamydous, radial, 5-merous, puberulent; calyx subglobose with 
small triangular lobes, tan or pale flesh-colored; corolla divaricate, 
petals yellow; stamens 10, inserted on the margin of the receptacle, 
filaments patently hairy; anthers basifixed, opening lengthwise; ovary 
globose with a spreading indumentum like the androecium; style 
cylindrical, hairy at the base; stigma capitate. 
tokples name (Waskuk) = ’wok-wok;’ use not recorded. This was said 
to be the true wok-wok; not the coll. Meliosma 10140 as reported from 
the last expedition. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1965-V, -1966-W, -1967-X, -1968-Y; 
corresponding to BR+TW, RT+RTBK, TWD, TBK+RTWD; 8 herbarium 
duplicates distributed through NCI; flowers bottled at A/HUH and LAE. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Regaladol 0,284 
(=Regalado no. 1,491) 
date: July 5, 1995 
det.: WT 
