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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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. Mogauí - 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.