Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10369 Ctenolophonaceae/Linaceae s.l. 
Ctenolophon parvifolius Oliver 
East Sepik Province; April River near confluence with the Sitipa; 
pristine lowland hill forest on mafic substrate, ascending Crestline at 
elev. 450’ altimeter (c. 135 m); colls, centered on 4° 34’ S latitude x 
142° 35’ E longitude. 
w. collection sequence 10365-10375; canopy tree on steep slopes, 
buttressed, outer bark dark brown and manifestly corky, inside also 
dark brown; wood v. dense and difficult to chop, reddish-brown; 
general aspect of fresh cuttings somewhat like a Lucinaea or 
Psychotria; herbage glabrous; leaves opposite, coriaceous, glossy on 
both surfaces, adaxially dark green x abaxially yellow green; lamina 
elliptic to lanceolate, typical blade 6 x 2.75 cm, apex bluntly acuminate, 
margin entire, base cuneate to rounded; venation irregularly 
pinnatinerved, coarsely areolate; petiole 1 cm; interpetiolar stipular 
scars present (stipules all fallen); fructescence terminal and erect, 
projecting slightly above the leaves, weakly paniculiform, all axes 
stellately puberulent; calyx persisting on the fruit, sepals 5, imbricate, 
rounded, margins ciliate, exterior indumentum as the rachides; capsule 
oblongoid or obovoid, rostrate, longitudinally striate, opening 
lengthwise, epicarp pale whitish-brown, puberulent; seed 1; arilloid 
fimbriate and distinctively deployed on one side, fimbria translucent 
white when fresh drying to a dull reddish-brown on the collection. 
tokples name (Bugabugi) = me ta-le; used for house construction and 
posts because of the very strong wood. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0852-L, -0853-M, -0854-N, -0855-0, - 
0856-P; corresponding to LF+TW+BR, TBK+sapwood, RT, TWD, BR; 
7 herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 10369 
date: July 22, 1995 
det: K. Demas and W.T. 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
10370 Euphorbiaceae 
Macaranga lanceolata Pax & Hoffm. 
keys to this result on Whitmore in Airy Shaw 
East Sepik Province; April River near confluence with the Sitipa; 
pristine lowland hill forest on mafic substrate, ascending Crestline at 
elev. 450’ altimeter (c. 135 m); colls, centered on 4° 34’ S latitude x 
142° 35’ E longitude. 
c. 20 m tree next to Ctenolophon 10369; unbuttressed, outer bark 
greyish-brown and unfissured; twigs virgate, slender, terete; leaves 
spiral, conferted, coriaceous, glabrous, adaxial surface dark dull green 
x abaxially yellow-green; lamina lanceolate, apex attenuate, base 
biglandular: the glands minutely auriculiform and basiscopic; 
inflorescence spicate, epedunculate, entirely yellow-green, not 
exceeding the leaves, axes puberulous; bracteoles acuminate; male 
flowers globose in bud and somewhat lepidote; fruits not seen on 
collection. 
Bugabugi name and use not recorded. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-0857-Q, -0858-R, -0859-S, -0860-T, -0861- 
U; corresponding to LF+TW+RTWD, RT, BR, TWD, TBK+sapwood; 6 
herbarium duplicates distributed through NCI. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 10370 
date: July 22, 1995 
det.: WT, May 1997 
