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Insect, and Animal Names and Other Native Words.
1. Mat grass with a small slender leaf and clover like blossoms, abundant,
(va'ova).
2. Large tree with purply red "apple"-like fruit (pukana).
3. Kamani-like tree. (tamanu = pupua = talano).
4. Large tree with coarse ovate leaves and small white flowers (vetau).
5. Boerhaavia-like plant (same as Nassau) (gran).
6. Boerhaavia-like plant with purple flowers (monoi) (mungamunga) (Plant S
7. Low shrubby herb with reddish panicul (same as Nassau) (Putuunu).
8. Small herb with chudate leaves (pohni).
9. Fern (same as Nassau) (mali'le)
10. Banana (wuti = mala).
11. Tall shrub with chordate leaves and axillary panicles of white flowers
(fiber plant) (wan or van) (Plant Spec. 33).
12. Cultivated plant with a long lanceolate leaf - growing with taro (pulunu)
13. Giant taro (pukika).
14. Sugar cane (tou).
15. Gardenia-like tree with a white, trumpet-shaped sweet smelling flower,
(tiale) (Plant Spec. 34).
16. Lepidium-like plant, with bottle-brush white flowers (gran).
17. Birds-nest fern (lau kotava or kosewa).
18. Noni, with a large leaf and small fruit (I saw no ripe ones), abundant
(nonu).
19. Milo tree (Pahitian mlo - told me by Hono, I didn't see the plant).
20. You tree, the hau-like tree (ekamava).
Dragonflies - (pepe)
Flies (especially the abundant house fly (ranu)
Lamae (asterpillar) or Tournfortia moth - white moth with pink and blue