Monday, June 9, 1924. Holiday, celebrating King George's birthday (June 3). Field trip, alone, around edge of Suva Bay to N. and W. Along a very good road, built up, with mangrove thickets on one, and in some places on both sides. Derth of insect specimens. Caught Sarcophagid on Mangrove. These are covered by lots of striped or mottled gray and brown snails - (more sea than land shells,) although they much resemble the latter. In places there was an abrupt rise or bluff on the right, covered with the familiar Lantana and the "[illegible]" saga" vine of Samoa which is here called "mile-a-minute" and identified as Mikania scandens. Saw large monkey-pod (?) trees and another pinnate leaved dark green leguminous tree (No. 197), with thin flat, light green pods; "Koa haole" (of Hawaii) [Leucaena glauca Benth.] "Kamani" [Barringtonia speciosa Linn.]; and bamboo. There seem to be two species of mangroves. One, the kind collected at Apia, with large pinkish flowers, here has a larger "projectile" and grows to a height of 30 to 40 feet. It is probably Rhizophora mucronata Lam. called "Dogo" and having a blood red sap used by the natives to dye their hair. (No. 195). The other, which is the more common, is lower, but with large prop roots. The flowers have four thickened, yellow-green sepals, and four white hairy petals; the "projectile" like fruit comes out from a brown based portion in a curve and reaches a mature length of 8 to 12 inches, (No. 196), probably Bruguiera Rheedii Blume. Another tree common in the mangrove swamps (No. 198) has a near umble of bright red torch-shaped flowers and little vase shaped fruit. The principal roadside weeds are:- Verbena (same as Hawaii) sensative plant [Mimosa pudica Linn.] various spp. of grasses, ferns, lantana, and a coarse, solanum-like shrub (No. 191). Also saw bananas, sugar cane, "ki" [Cordyline terminalis], hibiscus, breadfruit, coconut, tree ferns, and a Dracaena, (ki-like-plant) with green and red-purple, varigated leaves.