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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).