Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10344 Euphorbiaceae 
Homalanthus novoguineensis (Warb.) Schum. 
keys to this result on Airy Shaw 
East Sepik Province; April River; Bugabugi 2 above Natawe; diverse 
lowland hill forest on mafics, ascending Crestline at elev. 600’ altimeter 
(183 m); colls, centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34'E longitude. 
regrowth treelet on ridgeline; outer bark smooth, pale brown; wood 
white and soft; leaves alternate, herbaceous, glabrous, adaxial surface 
dark dull green x abaxially glaucous; lamina ovate-rhomboid, glandular 
at the base; inflorescence spiciform, bracts minute, glands compound 
and dorsal on the bracts; capsules globose, about 5 mm diameter, 
glaucous; style arms short and recurved. 
flowers bottled. 
Bugabugi name = ‘wei de ne.’ No use reported. Sap said to be 
injurious on eye contact. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0771-W, -0772-X, -0773-Y, -0774-Z; 
corresponding to LF+TW+BR, SBK+BR, SWD, RT+RTWD; 6 
herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10344 
date: July 20, 1995 
det.: WT, May 1997 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10345 Rubiaceae 
Timonius sp. 
East Sepik Province; April River; Bugabugi 2 above Natawe; diverse 
lowland hill forest on mafics, Crestline at elev. 700’ altimeter (c. 215 m); 
colls, centered on 4° 33’S latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. 
w. collection sequence 10340-10353; 5 m treelet, one of several 
individuals in fruit, a relatively common species somewhat resembling a 
Ternstroemia cherryi at first sight; twigs terete becoming compressed 
at the top; stipules acuminate, appressed hairy, fugacious; leaves 
opposite, crowded at the stem tips, lacking domatia, coriaceous, 
adaxial surface dark dull green and glabrous x abaxially yellow-green 
and laxly hairy on the costa; lateral venation in 6-8 pairs, tertiary nerves 
obscure; drupes single from the axils, globose, glabrous except for 
minute scattered hairs at both poles, crowned by the cylindrical 
remnant of the calyx tube; pericarp red, splitting irregularly at maturity; 
pyrenes many, elongate, longitudinally arranged, enveloped by a red 
and pulpy arilliform mass. 
tokples name (Bugabugi) = ‘porame;’ use not recorded. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0775-A, -0776-C, -0777-F, -0778-G, -0779- 
H, -0780-1; corresponding to LF, SBK, SWD, FR, RT+RTBK, BR+TW; 
8 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10345 
date: July 20, 1995 
