Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10348 Elaeocarpaceae 
Aceratium (closest to parvifolium Schltr.) 
also possibly a form of A. oppositifolium DC. 
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. 
with sequence 10345-10347; treelet <10 m height on ridgecrest; wood 
white; twigs slender, black, hairy; leaves opposite, papery, adaxial 
surface dull green x abaxially blue-green glaucous and appressed 
hairy; leaf flush reddish-brown, pubescent; mature lamina oblongish, 
generally <6 cm length, apex acuminate and apiculate, margins 
serrate; lateral veins 8-12; inflorescence axillary, few-flowered; flowers 
completely brown and withered at time of collection; fruits not seen. 
Bugabugi name = ‘fay.’ No use reported. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0793-V, -0794-W, -0795-X, -0796-Y, - 
0797-Z; corresponding to LF+FL+TW, BR, SBK+sapwood, 
RT+RTWD, SWD; 6 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10348 
date: July 20, 1995 
det.: WT, May 1997 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10349 Monimiaceae 
Faika villosa Philipson 
East Sepik Province, April River, Bugabugi 2 at Natawe, hill forest on 
mafic substrate at elevation 300’ (c. 90 m); colls, centered on 4° 33’S 
latitude x 142° 34’E longitude. 
with Syzygium 10343; understory shrub in shallow gully; vegetative 
parts with white spreading hairs; leaves subcoriaceous, rugose, adaxial 
side dark dull green x abaxially pale green, long setiform hairs 
throughout; lamina oblongish, typical blade 27 cm x 9.5 cm, apex 
caudate, margins laxly serrate, base usually truncate sometimes 
slightly notched; venation pinnate, laterals irregular, closing by 
supramedial looping nerves, anatomose to the margin and between 
veins, randomly and laxly areolate; petiole short, obscured by hairs; 
infructescence congested, axillary, globose; drupes obovoid, 15 mm x 
1 1 mm (dry), sessile on a swollen torus; epicarp glossy black when 
ripe. 
fruits bottled at Harvard. 
Bugabugi name and use not recorded. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10349 
det.: S.S. Renner 
date: July 20, 1995 
