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Vau fali - erect grass with short alternate leaves, raceme with short boards
and reddish color. Also another kind of grass (111) much tasseled.
Lava - tall shrub with white milky latex, leaves in 3s, small compound raceme.
Lau gasese - large branching bipinnate fern
Masame - small tree resembling guava.
Koe - tall tree, large pinnate leaf, axillary-terminal raceme of small flowers.
Mauka - tall shrub with large pinnate leaves, raceme of small 5-locule
pubescent fruits with blue-green seeds (eaten by pigeons).
Essi - papaya tree, planted about houses.
Foi - banana, quite abundant in lowlands.
Pi soa - shrub, sub-chordate leaves, 5-petalled, yellow-green flowers.
Mangugu - tree mango-like leaf, terminal compound raceme of berries.
Fuafua - (100) tall tree, hau-like leaves, lavender flowers and 5-sided
(loculed) capsules.
Nakai - tall shrub or tree with leaves in 3s.
Maki - tall shrub, large linear, alternate leaves.
Oleve - climbing vine with thick, subovate, pointed leaves, coarse stem.
Kamagu - tall, straight tree, with branches only toward top, used in making
canoes.
Kuse - common Sedge, (specimens collected in Phoenix group).
Poalulu - tree with numerous thick leaves.
Lau mopá - bird's nest fern.
Lama samoaa - the kukui, used for die in the process of tattooing (hakau).
Lau fau - banana-like plant, smaller trunk and larger leaf stalks, very
abundant throughout lower rainforest and lowlands.
Cocoo - tree which produces cocoa-bean; numerous small groves in lowland.
MogauĂ - tree with uneven lanceolate leaves and small crabapple-like fruits
with 7 locules and hard yellow seeds.
Polo feu - the red pepper plant.
Ifi - large tree with moderately large, coarse leaves.
Vailena - (110) grass with bifed spike.
Lau gasese - tall sedge, (112) long narrow leaf.