284 SAMOAN PLANTS AND THEIR VERNACULAR NAMES. 
Faupata (Cypholophus ...... ). A plant, growing from 4 to 8 
feet high. Flowers and-fruit sessile. Of the fibres of the inner bark 
the Samoans make their beautiful white shaggy mats called ** Ie-sina "' 
and “ Si‘aloa.” 
Fausoga, al. Soga (Pipturus propinquus, Weddell). A very graceful 
small tree. Inner bark used for making fishing-twine and lines. 
Fruit a white crystal-looking capitulum. 
Fautu (Hibiscus tiliaceus). 
Fauui vel Faüi (Ziliacea). A rather pretty-looking tree. Wood 
- hard, and valuable for various purposes. Flowers yellow, apetalous ; 
sepals leathery, valvate. Stamens oo. The inner bark used for mak- 
ing fishing-lines. | 
Fau-uta (Maoutia australis, Weddell). : 
Fena, al. Oli (Eugenia neurocalyz) ; varieties :—Fenaui, Fenatoto. 
A tree, erect, about 19 feet high. Branches spreading, bearing beau- 
tiful sessile sweet-scented flowers and fruit (the latter used only as a 
rfume, often suspended to the neck by a string). Leaves opposite, 
exstipulate, minutely dotted (dots scarcely discernible by the naked 
eye) ; bracts alternate, spine-like, situated just above the axils of the 
upper leaves. Calyx 8-lobed, 4 inner and 4 outer alternating with 
each other, all purple-red. Petals 8, in two rows, straw-coloured, yel- 
low, attached to the calyx just above the attachment of the stamens, 
which also are yellow, long, and very numerous; filaments free; an- 
thers not very small. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules numerous and long; pla- 
centa central; style awl-shaped, simple ; stigma simple. Flowers in 
clusters on the stem. In bloom in June. 
Fetai. A plant, with a string-like, light brown, leafless stem, creep- 
ing, twining ; apetalous, moneecious. Ovary superior. Fruit subdru- 
paceous, superior, surrounded by the enlarged persistent calyx. Used 
by some natives to produce abortion. 
Fetau (Calophyllum inophyllum). The “Tamanu” of the Tahitians. 
Flowers, as well as the albumen, odoriferous. 
Fiafiatuli. Another name for the * Tamole" (Portulaca quadri- 
alled on Rarotonga ** Luna." 
Filimóto (Flacourtia sp.?). A fruit tree, 15-20 feet high. Leaves 
alternate, ovate-lanceolate, petiolate, serrated, exstipulate. Young 
leaves very thin and reddish-purple colour. Inflorescence... Calyx 
small, flat, persistent ; 4 small, rounded segments, which do not meet. 
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