University of Illinois at Chicago 
PLANTS OF JAVA 
OPILIACEAE 
Lepionurus sylvestris Bl. 
Det. By: A. McDonald, January 5, 1993 
Field Char: Understory shrub ca. 2 m tall, 
lateral branches in whorls of 3, bark green; 
flowers cream, fruit yellow twining red. 
Locality: Ca. 5 km SE of Taman Jaya, "Kehutan 
Cijaga Besar", Cijaga Besar River watershed. 
Habitat: Primary forest; associated with 
Eugenia, Arenga, Pometia, Polyosma, 
Blumeodendron, etc., slopes to river, 
on forest margin. 
100 m,006°12’S X 105°30’E 
A. McDonald & Afriastini 3429, May 29, 1992 
This is a voucher specimen for 
anticancer and anti- AIDS screening 
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z4578-M, U44Z4579-N. 
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. 
