seen here so far. My Morima boy shaping well, the Kalokalo doubtful Everywhere close to the sawmill the ground is very stony and apparently unattractive on that account for gardens., as no sign of native cultivation has been seen. Forest consists of a well spaced stand of the supercanopy trees , an abundant second layer of trees 25-30 m tall and about 20-30 cm in diameter, a substage up to 20-30 m high, and an ill-defined lower layer of small trees and saplings. A big leaved Amaracarpus (?) is perhaps the most common undergrowth small tree (4-6 m) in this stony forest. Usually there is a fairly abundant herbaceous undergrowth of few species (ferns, Merantaceae, Mapania, an erect prickly saggitate aroid, etc.) which thickens in the shallow hollows. The ground slopez evenly towards the sea. Sat. April 14: Rain yesterday and last night registered 118 points. Enough rain this morning to spoil my collecting. Built a palmleaf house for shelter, then beat it back to camp. Only a few scuds of rain in afternoon and we have most of our laundry dry. Botanized about a mile in the direction of Sewa Bay. Still fine tall forest. Most interesting plants were 3 spp. of spicate ground orchids, two of them looking like Malaxis . A sprinkling of big trees in flower and attracting birds, but am reluctant to cut anything that looks like a mill log. Spared a 30 m Hibiscus (red flowers) and a big Garcinia which were dropping flowers on the governmentroad. A Mucuna with very big pale green flowers also in flower. Last night, after two blank nights near camp in the primary forest, the boys set traps in Izod's coconut plantation on the coast. Results: 2 very spiny, chunky big, shart-tailed brown Rattus, and five small gray Rattus which might be R. ruber. Nothing got by jacking; too much rain. Listened in on the radio for the first time last night. Good reception from Australia at 9 PM. Same old Palestinian and North African troubles as weeks ago. Rus and Lionel, hunting together, got nothing by jacklighting tonight. A Petaurus, Nyctimene, and a fair sized fruiteating bat which should be Rousettus or a small Dobsonia, shot by Lionel's boy Tinker. Sunday April 15: Hot day, only slight showers, clouds drifting from a northerly direction. Botanized a short distance up the Creek, not shown on the l-mile map, which runs to the south of camp and into Waikaiuna Bay. Best day so far, but forest not abound- ing in species and very little in flower or fruit. Two gairsized trees were a Ceribora, common here, and a Syzygium with very small white flowers and small leaves. My first epiphytic orchid for the trip; a true "botanical" with purple flowers. Several ferns from moist banks of the creek, and a pretty small pinnate clump palm. Creek gravelly. Two of the small rats is traps last night. A cuscus, pale purplish in general coloration, shot in a tree this morning by Tinker. Apparently different from the young animal bought from a native a couple of days ago. Lionel to Bwasiala village, 3-4 miles down the coast, this afternoon to arrange for carriers and guides to take him on a reconnaissance of the mountains. Returned in rain about 7:30 bringing two Nyctimenes and two Petaurus he had shot in flowering Calophyllum inophyllum trees along the coast.