A slender Areca related to A. novohibernica was common, as was a species of Calyptrocalyx , which I had already found in abundance around Mt. Bosavi. The latter was a particularly ornamental palm. Its regularly pinnate leaf was an exquisite copper shade on emergence and bore elliptic leaflets whose apices were drawn into fine pendent drip tips. This excerpt is the first two pages of the article that originally appeared in the July 1997 issue of Principes . Several color photos accompany the article.
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