Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10289 Annonaceae 
Cananga odorata (Lmk.) Hook. f. & Thoms. 
East Sepik Province, Waskuk Hills; along the foot track between 
Garuka and Ambunti; in Glei clan territory; swamp forest at elev. 100’ 
(c. 30 m); near 4 deg. ITS lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E long. 
with sequence 10290-10296; canopy tree with buttress swell; 
occasional, populations fertile; outer bark pale brown, smooth; inner 
bark and sapwood straw; leaves distichous, pliant, adaxial surface 
dark green x abaxially yellow-green; lamina mostly elliptic-lanceolate; 
inflorescence axillary or below the leaves, peduncled, bracteate, 
flowers very fragrant; perianth yellow, puberulent throughout; sepals 3; 
ovate, valvate; petals 6 (3+3), linear, isomorphous, flaccid and typically 
hanging; ripe carpels black, stipitate, the torus scarcely expanded on 
the fruit; seeds 4, lenticular; endosperm ruminate. 
Waskuk name = ‘koso me.’ A source of construction timber. An 
extract from the roots or bark is used to stimulate hunger when a 
person is sick and not eating. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1990-X, -1991-Y, -1992-Z, -1993-A, -1994- 
C; corresponding to TWD, TBK, RT+RTBK+TBK+BR, FR+BR, 
LF+TW; 8 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi and J. Regalado 10289 
(= Regalado no. 1496) 
date: July 6, 1995 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10290 Meliaceae 
Sandoricum koetjape (Burm. f.) Merr. 
keys to genus and sp. on Mabberley 
East Sepik Province; Waskuk Hills; alluvial swamp forest along foot- 
track between Garuka and Waskuk villages; elev. _40 m; near 4 deg. 
IT S lat. x 142 deg. 44’ E long. 
w. collection sequence 10289-10300; canopy tree on wet ground; outer 
bark not fissured, wood straw; twigs terete; indumentum (when 
present) of simple hairs only none stellate; leaves trifoliolate, spirally 
arranged, pliant, glabrate except for the petiole, concolorously medium 
green both surfaces, overmature leaves turning bright red; leaflets 
ovate, typical blade 1 1 x 5.5 cm, apex shortly acuminate, base acute or 
rounded; apical petiolule usually 3.0 - 3.5 cm long; lateral venation 6-9 
pairs, reticulum lax; thyrses axillary, shorter than the leaves, minutely 
puberulous, bracteate; flower buds entirely yellow-green; calyx 
shallowly 5-lobate, margins laxly ciliate; corolla imbricated in bud, 
petals 5; staminal tube present; fruits globose, immature (ripe fruit said 
by locals to be dehiscent with the exposed fully mature seeds red); 
epicarp provided with a brown pubescence, pericarp lactiferous; locules 
5 in one dissected fruit; seeds lenticular. 
tokples name (Waskuk) = ‘apkase me;’ the wood is strong and used for 
canoes and carvings. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-1995-F, -1996-G, -1997-H, -1998-1, -1999- 
J; corresponding to TWD, TBK, LF+RTWD, BR, RT+RTBK; 7 
herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll: W. Takeuchi & J. Regalado10290 
(=Regalado no. 1 ,497) 
date: July 6, 1995 
det.: WT 
