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8. Pandanus - fala fairly abundant
9.? puka vaka occasional (tall tree with green fruit and cordate leaf used for making canoes)
10. Ficus - mati occasional (ovate leaf and small red-brown figs)
11. Fiber plant - fau "
12. Pemphis - gagie (ngangie) marginal fringe
Principal Undergrowth on Fonua lava. (Names from Magistrate).
1. Maile fern - maile
2. Birds nest fern - lau mea
3. "Puff-ball fruit herb" - nasevau (little puffy fruits, edible)
4. Boerhaavia (purple flower) - nuna
5. "Red top herb" - atiati
6. Beach runner - totolo
7. Dodder over plants - fatae
8. Large dry-land taro - tamu
9. Ipomoea vine (white flowered) - fui
10. Papaya - esi
11. Bunch grass - makeku = (in Samoan) mutea
12. Brake ferns - rata maile or maile kimoa
Tournefortia moths plentiful, their caterpillars called anufi, appear larger and different from those on the dryer islands to the north. Spiders plentiful called kuma. Saw blue-white spotted and red-brown butterflies. Lizards are called pili, the large chameleon lizard is called moku. Land crabs - unga.
On the S. side, the reef is about 150 yards wide with a moderate surf.
Sand beach with sandstone slabs.
Roll 34:4 Magistrate and Capt. Uikilifi in front of typical marginal vegetation amid the birdsnest ferns, momi trees, etc. S. side Fonua loa, looking N.W.