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Along S.W. coast and away, steering S.E.
Sea calm, good light wind from N.E. to E.N.E.
Schooner rolled badly during the night.
Summary of the Plants on Hull Island.
1. Coconut - large grove W. end.
2. Bunch grass, (Lepturus).
3. Erect weed (found on Sydney) with "dandy-lion"-like tuft and lavender flowers.
4. Banana (only under cultivation and then do not do well - too dry.)
5. Beach runner with yellow flowers and burr.
6. Portulaca - erect, many stamened kind.
7. Boerhaavia - with white flowe rs and small leaves.
8. Boerhaavia - lavender flowers and coarse leaves.
9. Ipomoea vine (with white flowers).
10. Puapua (Tafono) tree.
11. Buka tree (some very tall, 50-60 feet).
12. Sida.
13. Red-topped erect herb (found on nearly all these islands).
14. Pemphis bushes (near salt water ponds and lagoon entrances).
15. Noni (only a few bushes seen). Mr. Shafer says it is good for rheuma-
tism: the leaves heated or mashed up into a poulitice.
16. Pandanus (only 2 plants on island).
17. Small leafed running herb.
18. Low grass with thick bottle-brush-like flowering stalk.
19. Velvety-leaved bunch grass. (Introduced by Shafer from Funafuti).
20. "Honolulu weed" - near camp.
21. Another grass with 5-forked inflorescence(introduced by Shafer).
22. Low erect herb, with very small flowers but red on floral leaves. (In-
troduced by Mr. Shafer from Funafuti and originally from New Caledonia).