is a bluff, with ki, tree ferns and several interesting looking spp.of trees and shrubs. Walked a few hundred yards further to the end of the road, at which point a much overgrown, muddy path begins. Here saw a shrub with dense, compound raceme of star-shaped white flowers, with five slender petals and slender, conical, truncated fruit (No. 185). Took specimens of small hermit crab on damp bank. Stag-horn fern; prostrate legume - resembling very small clover, with small purple flower (shaped like a canoe with sloping sail), and small brown pod, white pubescent on stem, leaf and sepals (No. 183). Collected several small hymenoptera on a yellow flowered composite (No. 188), including bees, Polister, black and yellow wasp. Returned to ship, picking up specimens of the plants noted on way out which were in fruit and flower. Also noted a leguminous vine on Mangroves with a large lima-bean-like pod; and another large leaved vine with bright pink blossoms. While pressing the[illegible]plants had the pleasure of meeting Mr. A. E. Ward, Artist, who gave me some interesting information about the plants and other subjects:- No. 187 he identified as Kösters Curse and told me the following anecdote about how it got its name: "It was introduced as a garden plant by a Mr. Parr. It later escaped and became a great pest because of its ability to spread rapidly. Someone asked the son of Mr. Köster, a neighbor of Parr's who it was who had introduced the plant. Young Köster replied "Parr." Thinking he had said "pa", the misinformation became fixed that Köster had introduced it and despite Köster's efforts to correct the mistake it has been known as "Köster's Curse." Upon seeing a specimen of Hibiscus tiliacius, Mr. Ward said that a factory was started to make wood pulp from the soft wood, but was later abandoned. The fiber of this plant (which in Viti is called "Vau") is most useful, being 6 to 7 feet in length and very strong.