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My Name
Ellice Is. Name
other name
15. Boerhaavia-like vine
umunga or gunga
makā ("kakee for horses")
(Plant Spec. 10)
16. Grass
17. Taro
talo
18. Banana
fufi
19. Convovulus-like vine
fu
20. Leafless parasite
(takimol)
(Vigna)
21. Low prostrate herb
with small ovate
leaves
sounds like numa = (nguma?)
22. Foodstools
talifiga
25. Large dry-land taro
famu
24. Cultivated bean-like
vī
vine on a pole
25. Large tree with
puka-val = (Hernandia pettata)
putty red fruit
26. Tree resembling kou, (It is kou, sew blossoms
kanava kanava
sap used as gum for
snarling birds (common
near the swamps).
27. Manioc (cultivated)
vatau or gnau, (root eaten)
28 Large tree
gatau
ELLICE ISLAND NAMES FOR INSECTS, ANIMALS, ETC.
Hermit crabs.
unga.
Moths
pepe
Cockroach
mongemonga
Ants
1o (or g1o) or leo
Flies
gnaum
t(hose on different plants called)
(after the plant as gneu-pua.)
A large brown spider caught in
pendanus head.
Spiders
Levaleva
Lizards
mo (not mo'o)
The lizards, moderately large skinks, are very abundant, appearing the