Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
1 1 674 Myristicaceae 
Horsfieldia subtilis (Miq.) Warb. var. aucta de Wilde 
keys to this result on de Wiide 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, track to Mt. Widau at Wara Sename; colls, 
centered on 6° 43’ S, 145° 00’ E; swampy forest with 
anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter elev. 2425’ (740 m). 
colls sequence 11670-11683; 3m understory shrub; branchlets 
terete, grayish-brown or green; leaves distichous, subfleshy, 
bullate, glossy dark green, light green beneath; flowers 2-valved, 
yellow-orange, female perianth glabrous inside; fruits orange-red, 
valves 2, fleshy, rugose. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘e-be’. Used in construction. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11674 
date: March 5, 1 997 
det.: WT; 7/97 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11675 Melastomataceae 
Medinilla crassinervis Bl. 
Chimbu (Simbu) Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife Management Area, 
near Haia village, track to Mt. Widau; colls, centered on 6° 43’ S, 
145° 00’ E; hill forest with anthropogenic disturbance, altimeter 
elev. 2475’ (755 m). 
colls sequence 11670-11683; climbing shrub, stem appressed to 
tree trunk, terete, green or very pale brown; leaves whorled, 
herbaceous, adaxially dark dull green, yellow-green or reddish- 
brown underneath; flowers pinkish-red in bud, hypanthium light 
green; fruits globose, light green, 5 septae in XS, seeds 
numerous. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘senobu’. Stem rubbed against spear to 
give it a red color. 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11675 
date: March 5, 1997 
det.: WT; 7/97 
