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Walking along the road encountered "hau" trees [Cordia subcordia], tall
plume grass (No. 190); and the low shrub with a four-petaled yellow flower,
linear lanceolate leaves, same as collected at Puka Puka and Faka'ofo.
Occasional small patches of taro. Large morning glory vine with blue
and white flowers; vine with large heart-shaped leaves; beautiful red flower-
ing cannas [Canna indica]; Ipomoea pes-capri, with lavender-purplish flowers;
large shrub Cassia with yellow flowers, (frequent in Hawaii lowlands); Pandanus;
mango; tall, large linear leaved, lilaeceous herb with large crimson spike (a
ingester ?); orange; guava; erect herb resembling cassava, with five to seven
digitate leaves (also in Samoa); pineapple; Cacao; red pepper; large tree with
thick ovate leaves and reniform, flat pods about 6 x 2 1/2 inches; triangular
stemmed rush (?) with tassle; rugose, hirsute leaved shrub, "Kosters curse",
[Clidonia hirta] (No. 187), with white flowers and small, hairy indago-blue
fruit.
Insects along here included:- large orange Vespid [Polistes hebales]
large green Ddichopodidae; huge grasshoppers; day mosquitoes (Aedes pseudo-
scutellaris]; small brown and white butterfly with black spot.
Further on:- tree with moderately large, leathery leaves, compound
raceme of small white flowers, and ovate green to gray-brown fruit. Very small
leafed, low herb with terminal spikes of minute white flowers (No. 184);
herbaceous shrub with 3 lobed subchordate leaves, pink to old rose flowers
and small, 5-locular capsules, (No. 194); maile fern; small tree with alternate
leaves in one plane, axillary, compressed spikes, 4-5" long, and jointed stem,
probably a Piper (No. 186); papaia trees; small slender herb with pairs of
opposite, small linear lanceolate leaves, and axillary sessile heads of very
small white flowers.
Passed the quarry (about 5 miles from Suva), opposite of which are two
luxuriently green islands. The enclosed bay is what is known as the Suva
"Hurricane Harbor." On the right of the road, which is here under construction,