Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11175 Oleaceae 
Chionanthus aff. sessiliflorum (Hemsl.) Kiew 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia, main ridge of Mt. Widau; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with some 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2550’ (777 m). 
coll, sequence 11,175-11,188; 15 m treelet at edge of landslip 
near Crestline; trunkbark thick, slash pinkish, wood stramineous, 
branches grayish, lenticellate but otherwise smooth; twigs 
compressed at apical intervals, basiscopically subterete, surfaces 
very pale brown to whitish-brown; leaves firm, adaxially very dark 
green, abaxially yellow-green; veins yellow; petioles twiglike in 
coloration and appearance; fruits infrafoliar, ovoid, interior cavity 
tremelloid and transparent in cross-sectional view; epicarp pale 
brown, flaking. 
carpological and xylarium colls, made. 
NCI screening code: OFCZ-2162-L, -2163-M, -2164-N, -2165-0, - 
2166-P, -2167-Q; corresponding to FR, TBK, LF, RTBK+RT, 
RTWD, TW+BR; 5 multiple sheet sets distributed through NCI. 
coll.; W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,1 75 
date: Sept. 14, 1996 
det.: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11176 Gesneriaceae 
Cyrtandra sp. A, § Centrosiphon 
conspecific with coll. 11230, 12163 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
vicinity of Haia, main ridge of Mt. Widau; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; hill forest with some 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2550’ (777 m). 
coll, sequence 11,175-11,188; 2-3 m laxly branched shrub at 
edge of landslip, occasional, distinctive species; stems subalate, 
lineate between petioles, surfaces very smooth and pale whitish- 
brown; ‘stipules’ fleshy, carinated, cream-colored; leaves 
pseudoalternate, paired with a stipuliform member, blades 
fleshy/succulent, very thick; lamina dark green above, abaxially 
very yellowish-green; costa pale yellow or dull white, concolorous 
with petiole; petioles triangular in XS, broadly flattened above and 
keeled below; flowers in bud only; perianth entirely shiny yellow; 
calyx ventrally cleft, tube base truncate, deciduous from the fruit; 
corolla obtuse in bud; fruits ovoid, epicarp dull light green, berry 
turns white and soft when ripe (according to villagers). 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘ya ma lu;' the stem sap is mixed with 
water in bamboo receptacles and the resulting solution is then 
force-fed to newly caught wild pigs; said to calm the pig for 
domestication. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,176 
date: Sept. 14, 1996 
det.: WT, May 1999 
