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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