Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11974 Meliaceae 
Aglaia sp. 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province; Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, E of Haia village near Wara O, slopes of 
descending buttress ridge to the Pio River, colls, centered on 6° 
47’S, 145° 02’E, natural growth foothill forest; elev. 460 m. 
tree, dbh 33 cm, clear exudate from cut surfaces; leaves 
conferted at ends of branches, pinnate, axes dull orange-brown; 
leaf base swollen; leaflets fleshy but fracturing easily, yellow- 
green both sides; infructescence axillary, entirely brown, 
bracteate, calyx persistent. 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘oh-rai’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11974 
date: March 22, 1997 (out of sequence) 
det: WT 
Flora of Crater Mt., Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
11975 Meliaceae 
Chisocheton stellatus Stevens 
border of Chimbu (Simbu) and Gulf Province, Crater Mt. Wildlife 
Management Area, near Pio River in natural-growth foothill forest, 
colls centered on 6° 47’ S, 145° 02’ E, elevation 510-610 m. 
arborescent, dbh 21.0 cm; branchlets and apical bud robust; 
leaflets induplicate, fleshy, shining dark green above, yellow-green 
beneath, leaf axes furfuraceous; inflorescence spiciform, 
furfuraceous; calyx brown, truncate, corolla 5, pale whitish-green, 
free, circinnately reflexing; staminal column white, 5 stamens; 
ovary globose, shaggy (developing fr). 
Pawaian tokples name = ‘may’ 
coll: W. Takeuchi 11975 
date: March 24, 1 997 (out of sequence) 
det.: WT; 6/97 
