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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Magiooa - manist (?) edable root, 6-digitate leaf. Filimoko - (97) tree with raceme of white flowers and small red berries. (Tutulia specimen) Kapukoi - tall shrub or small tree with moderate size pinnate leaves. Oa - tree with pointed, serrate leaves in 3s and comp. raceme of small yellow flowers. Loa - (106) small trees with red-haired fruits containing red seeds, used in making red paint or dye. Lau mamoi -- (105) shrub with raceme of red flowers and purple green fruit. Faga magu - canna or indian shot. Ua - shrubby herb, three lobed, serrate leaves, used in making kapa for lavalava. Lau talotalo - lilacens, large leaved plants (spec. taken on Sydney). Mutea - nutgrass (abundant near beach). Fuifui - Ipomoea pescapri (along beach, also in lowland). Vavai - tree with 7-digitate leaf. Malila - cultivated herb with white or purple-red flowers (104). Fui - monocot, climbing vine (115), large fleshy leaves and white catkins. Avaava aiku - (116) erect shrub, noded leaves, red catkin. (very abundant undershrub in rainforest, found even at 3,000'. Back to schooner with a number of plant specimens. Thursday, May 1, 1924. Ashore with Mr. Beck, Correia and sailor Joe Hicks, taking the trail used yesterday went inland 3 to 4 miles to a large cleared area planted to taro, bananas, sugarcane, etc., elevation 1275'. Collecting good; insects abundant; landshells commencing at 650 feet, on banana leaves, ki, and herbs. Usual dark leafhopper and small orange and fuscous bug on Taro. Butterflies abundant, Hypolenna bolina. A blue green and black sp. the "dead leaf" - dark brown sp., large Papilio "swallowtail", and many moths. Syrphid flies and long brown bugs in grass. Several small thatched huts in taro patch. Trail continues on up ridge