PLANT LIFE OF NASSAU Except for the coconut trees the vegetation facing the beach might be that of Wake, and, I gathered from Correla and Hono, a bright Tahitian man, is typical of most low south Pacific islands. It consists of Seavola, Touria, fortie, Pandanus, and a tree called Tautono, with leaves and shape like Hawaii Kamai, but with small fruits, green when immature, white when full sized and fibrous like a husked coconut when fallen to the ground, shaped like a tangerine orange and about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches across and 1 inch thick (a summary of it, plants with their native names is given later). The undergrowth includes a banyan vine with lobed, sub-cordate leaves and a small bur, a Boerhavia-like low plant Lepidium-like small shrubby plant with linear-lanceolate leaves, some serrated truncates at tip and white flowers on a bottle-brush-like stalk. Inside this marginal fringe the dominant plant is the coconut palm which grows thickly over the greater part of the interior, except in several low swampy areas to be described later. Among these grow the large Buka trees, leaf three to five inches broad and six to ten inches long. Some of these fully four to six feet in diameter, of soft wood, with an elongate sub-cordate two species of grass are found, one in clumps, similar to bunch or wire grass above the general level of the vegetation, as it truncated by the wind. About fern with a palmate frond, and are generally scattered over the ground. A (found in Hawaii) grows about, at the passes of the coconuts and in the damper areas. Birds-nest ferns grow in crochets of other trees, especially in the Pandanus, or which there are two sp., the one with large edible fruits and shrub or small tree, a fiber plant, called Roe, and a species of noni. Some of the marshy - "Kepunas" (my name) are planted to taro and bananas With them, but more especially where they are absent one finds the following