Myrtaceae. 
Kavika vulavula, while the red is called Kavika damudamu by the Fijians. In 
Samoa the tree is called nonufi afi’a or nomula for the red variety, while the 
white variety is known as nonuui. The bark of the trees is used as an astringent, 
while the flowers and leaves are used for lung troubles. 
The trunks of the trees were hewn into posts and rafters for houses, also used 
in making the enclosures about temples. From it were also made the sticks to 
couple together the double canoes. 
SYZYGIUM Gaertn. 
Staminal discus wanting. Sepals usually short and broad or entirely missing. Petals 
a. waite and falling off together at the opening of the flowers.—Otherwise as in 
The genus Sy zygium consists of more than 140 species, of which only two or 
three are found in tropical Africa. The majority of the species of this genus 
occur in the East Indian-Malayan archipelago or region, while four are found 
in Australia, of which two are endemic. The Hawaiian Islands possess a single 
endemie¢ species which is known by the natives as Ohia ha or Paihi. 
Syzygium sandwicense (Gray) Ndz. 
Ohia ha or Paihi on Maui. 
(Plate 126.) 
SYZYGIUM SANDWICENSE Sega e Be in a et Prantl girs ge 7. (1893) 85.— 
Eugenia sandwicensis big 4 oe hee ie = Me a Pro oc, Am foam ae 
VII. ey deg et Fl. ra (18 ae in a (1873) 1 
Hbd . Isl. we gris —Del Cast. Tl FL Bits a if. Pec. VL (1890) 170; 7 
Heller in Mince. Bot. Stud. Bull. IX. (1897) 862. 
Sometimes a tree 20 m; branches an eras sharply gas leaves —— or 
obovate-oblong, oy and usually emarginate at the apex, glabrous, dark gree 
yellowish brown with red v eins, subcoriaceous, 4.10 em long, 3-5 em wide, on sain of 
about 12 mm, the marginal nerve continuous; cymes single or co pi igrate in the axils of the 
e e, 2 m 
The Ohia ha, or Paihi as it is called on Maui, oceurs on all the islands of the 
group and becomes often a tree 60 feet or more in height, with a diameter of 
trunk of one to one and a half feet. 
The bark is reddish brown and smooth and it ean therefore be distinguished 
easily from the Ohia lehua (Metrosideros), which has rough sealy bark. The 
wood of the Ohia ha is hard and durable and is of a reddish color. It inhabits 
the forests of lower elevations, but can often be found also up to 4000 feet. as, 
for example, on Kauai in the forests of Kaholuamano and Halemanu. It 
reaches its best development in the dense rain forest, while on open, exposed 
ridges it becomes stunted and is inclined to be shrubby. During the late summer 
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