University of Illinois at Chicago 
PLANTS OF JAVA 
RUBIACEAE 
Lasianthus cyanocarpus Jack 
Det. By: A. McDonald, January 5, 1993 
Field Char: Lignescent shrub, branching at base 
or not, basal stems to 2 cm diam. , corollas 
white, fruit metallic azure. 
Locality: Ujung Kulon Reserve, trail from Taman 
Jaya to Puncak Cibiun, on first rise to peak, 
4.5 km E of Taman Jaya. 
Habitat: Primary(?) forest, associated with 
Eugenia, Tabemaemontana, Horsfieldia, 
Knema, etc., palms dominant in 
understory. Understory. 
350 m,006°12’S X 105°30’E 
A. McDonald & Afriastini 3377, May 18, 1992 
This is a voucher specimen for 
anticancer and anti-AIDS screening 
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z3705-N, U44Z3706-O. 
Collected under the sponsorship of: U.S. National Cancer 
Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Arnold 
Arboretum (Harvard University), Field Museum of 
Natural History and Herbarium Bogoriense, LIPI. 
Please notify Field Museum Herbarium of any new 
determination of this collection, specifying that 
it is a University of Illinois at Chicago voucher. 
