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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instead of "fua sega" vine. It is as luxuriant at 1000' as on N. slope at 2500'. Occasional open spaces with vines and grass, but not dominated by the white flowered fua sega. The spring is a large stream of cold water (about 150 to 200 miners inches) coming out of the side of a hill, probably from a lava tube or other subterranean channel. It runs a few rods and disappears again. Fell in with some natives gathering oranges from a tree near the spring and obtained the following native plant names:- Mami - large shrub (No. 154) with large sessile brown fruits. •unu - tall lobelia like arborescent plants with white flowered "drumsticks" and large acuminate leaves. Pauono - Freycinetia ("ieie") vine. Pisupo - generic name for large fern. Lau pata - the large leaved, spreading tree (No. 141). Fue - vine with chordate leaves and white trumpet-shaped flower. Moa - small prostrate herb on ground, with violet-shaped leaves, orange berry and white star-shaped flower (No. 117). Mamala - the tree with the thin chordate leaves, spike of white flowers and small heart-shaped fruit which grows into plum-shaped drupes. (Speci- men taken in Tutuila). Leaoa - the huge banyan, Ficus - with prop roots covering an area 25' in dia. Ago - (in Toga - agoago) the herb plant with the red "drumstick", squashy stalked fruit and grass or lily-like leaves. (Common in Hawaii) called "ginger." Vi - large tree, green fruit, small lanceolate leaf. Landshells are called aki'ai. Back to Salailua. Met Mr. Jenson and wife, part white, trader, who have their two little girls in St. Andrews Priory, Honolulu. Also Mr. Ross white trader. Returned to schooner, put away specimens, pressed plants and wrote up notes. Saturday, May 17, 1924. Sailors caught a huge shark 10 or 12 feet long, said to be the largest