Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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of plants which we passed. Numbers refer to field numbers of plant specimens. Lowland Plants Fifi, large tree with mango-like leaf, and large brown fruit, latter used for oil. Ulu - breadfruit, quite a few trees in lowlands. Moli, orange, the fruit apparently does not get yellow, but is ripe while green. Guava, (Native name same) abundant in lowlands. Mango - mango, some of the trees having a diameter of 2 1/2 to 3 feet. Maukefu - at least 2 spp. of Sida (113), also a small herb with a burr (114) and terminal lavender flowers, and a similar plant with yellow axillary flowers. Ava Samoa - jointed stemmed herb with a rather large leaf. Maso oe - tall tree with large pinnate leaves. Vau fefe - the sensitive plant - Mimosa. Lau kioke - an erect herb with small yellow flowers. Lau ka - The "maile fern" specimens of which were taken from Fakaofu (?) or Puka Puka. Ki - (Hawaiian Ti) Cordyline terminalis. Fala - Pandanus (not abundant). Fala Samoa - a wild or semi-cultivated pineapple; occasional small fruit. Mamala - tree with thin chordate leaf, spike of small white flowers and small purple heart-shaped young fruit and large plum-shaped fruit. (speci- men taken before). Ufi lei - an Ipomoea-like vine. Auke - Hibiscus (red flowered) (108). Fuga sega - (95) a vine with fasciclose head of white flowers. Exceedingly abundant through lowlands and lower forest, climbing over trees and covering the ground. Ava pui - monocotyledonous herb we call "ginger" in Hawaii. Masa - coarse herb with large leaves, 6 ribbed fruit filled with rough seeds (shaped like orange seeds) and edible root. Gogu - (noni) Morinda citrifolia (?) not abundant. Fau - hau (Hibiscus tiliacens).