Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 260 Acanthaceae 
Peristrophe sp. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, swamp forest around Haia; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; anthropogenic regrowth at 
altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,254-11,264; subshrubs on margin of 
subsistence garden, .5 m height; stems purple-green, swollen 
above the nodes; branches paired, erect; leaves herbaceous, 
adaxial surface very dark dull green and with linear cystoliths, 
abaxially dark purple; bracts foliose, deep purple; flowers 
zygomorphic, corolla tubular, constricted near the base, limb 5- 
merous. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 11,260 
date: Sept. 21,1996 
det.: WT; 12/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11261 Myristicaceae 
Myristica cornutiflora J. Sinclair 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, Papua side; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, swamp forest around Haia; colls, centered on 
coordinates 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; anthropogenic regrowth at 
altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
coll, sequence 11,254—11,264; 5 m treelet next to Myristica 
11254; twigs terete, surfaces light brown, not lineate; leaves 
distichous, fleshy, sub-bullate, adaxially very dark green, 
abaxially yellow-green; inflorescence pedunculate, all axes 
yellow-green; flower buds dull yellow. 
flowers bottled. 
coll.: W. Takeuchi 1 1 ,261 
date: Sept. 21,1996 
det.: WT 
