det.: W.T. 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10366 Cornaceae 
Mastixia kaniensis Melch. 
ssp. ledermannii (Melch.) Matthew 
East Sepik Province; April River near confluence with the Sitipa; 
pristine lowland hill forest on mafic substrate, ascending Crestline at c. 
200 m elev.; colls, centered on 4° 34’ S latitude x 142° 35’ E longitude. 
w. collection sequence 10365-10375; 20 m+ canopy tree, bole straight 
to base, inner bark and sapwood concolorously yellowish; twigs and 
branchlets terete, puberulent, often opposed; leaves opposite, 
exstipulate, coriaceous, induplicate, glabrous; lamina elliptic, typical 
blade 8x4 cm, apex various: acute to obtusely acuminate, margin 
entire, base tapering; lateral venation in 4-6 pairs, feeble, finely areolate 
between; petiole to c. 2.5 cm; inflorescence terminal, corymbose, 
puberulent, pedunculate, numerously bracteolate; flowers 
dichlamydous; calyx generally 5-dentate; corolla puberulous in bud; 
drupe ovoid, crowned by the persisting calyx and disk, often with the 
cylindrical style (stigma punctiform) also present. 
tokples name (Bugabugi) = ‘me has he;’ wood used for houses and 
canoes. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0846-F, -0847-G, -0848-H, -0849-1, -0850- 
J, -0851 -K; corresponding to LF+TW+WD, BR, RT+RTBK, TBK, 
RTWD, TWD; 8 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10366 
date: July 22, 1995 
det.: W.T. 
