Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 0340 Oleaceae 
Chionanthus sp. (laxiflorus-oxycarpus group) 
East Sepik Province; April River; Bugabugi 2 above Natawe; diverse 
lowland hill forest on mafics, ascending Crestline at elev. 300’ altimeter 
(c. 90 m); colls, centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. 
with 10341-10342; understory treelet; vegetative parts glabrous; leaves 
opposite, distichous, pliant, dark dull green both surfaces; 
infructescence below the leaves, ramifying, rachides opposed, axes 
puberulent and minutely bracteate; fruits rostrate, epicarp pale dull 
green; seed 1. 
Bugabugi name = ‘tau-mei.’ Useful only for house construction. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0749-X, -0750-Y, -0751 -Z, -0752-A, -0753- 
C; corresponding to LF, SBK+BR, RT, SWD, infructescence; 11 
herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10340 
date: July 20, 1995 
det.: WT 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10341 Icacinaceae 
Stemonurus monticolus (Schellenb.) Sleum. 
but the calyx is truncate, not lobed 
East Sepik Province; April River; Bugabugi 2 above Natawe; diverse 
lowland hill forest on mafics, ascending Crestline at elev. 300’ altimeter 
(c. 90 m); colls, centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. 
with sequence 10340-10342; 10 m treelet; leaves spiral, glabrous, firm, 
adaxial surface dark green x abaxially pale yellow-green and densely 
tuberculate; venation pinnate, obscure or invisible; inflorescence 
solitary in the axils, umbellate; flowers sessile, crowded at the summit 
of the rays, dull yellow; calyx truncate. 
Bugabugi name = 'kol' wa,’ (pronounced with a long vowel on the o). 
Used as a general construction timber. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0754-F, -0755-G, -0756-H, -0757-1, -0758- 
J; corresponding to LF, SBK, SWD, RT, TW+BR; 10 herbarium 
duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10341 
date: July 20, 1995 
det.: K. Demas (LAE) & W.T. 
