SAMOAN PLANTS AND THEIR VERNACULAR NAMES. 848 
Fisóü (Colubrina Asiatica, Brongn.). Habit twining. Flowers 
yellow. Leaves used as a substitute for soap. * *U*u fisoa," to be 
cleansed or anointed with fisoa, is a phrase used in native poetry. 
Fúa. The collective name for fruits and seeds. 
Fu'afu'a (Kleinhoovia hospita, L.). A valuable timber tree, whose 
wood, when full grown, is very durable for house-carpentering ; its 
flowers are small and reddish ; its fruit covered with a membranous 
lobed capsule, somewhat like the fruit of Dodonea. There are two 
kinds or rather two states of the wood; the one mature and hard, 
the other young and soft; the hard is not attacked by the white ants, 
the other very readily. Fu‘afu‘a mala, the soft kind. Fu‘afu‘a fatu 
(stony), the hard kind. : 
Fu‘apine (Myrsinea). A small tree, with exstipulate alternate leaves. 
Flowers in racemes. Fruit white, fleshy, eaten by the children. 
bark dark, studded with light dots. This tree is called on Manua 
** Lalamea ? and “ Lalamelo.” 
Fue. The collective term for a great number of twining or climb- 
ing plants; indeed, everything with the habit of a Convolvulus, a 
Cucurbitacea, or Pea is called a “ Fue;" often having a distinctive 
term added, e. g. “ Fue-asage.” See “ Asage.” 
Fue (Morinda sp.?). A climbing plant, with a round rough stem, 
opposite, entire, small, ovate-lanceolate, shining leaves, interpetiolar 
stipules, and an inferior fruit in a capitulum. 
Fueàfáüga (Cucurbitacea). 
Fuemaga (Jasminum sp.). A neat, pretty-looking creeper, trifoli- 
olated. Corolla sweet-scented, white, monopetalous, 6-8 somewhat 
irregular lobes, sestivation imbricate. Stamens 2. Stigma flat. 
emea. The Waterbine. 
Fue-manogi (sweet-scented) (Jasminum sp.). With a woody, twin- 
ing, scandent stem. Flowers white. Lobes of corolla 6, imbricate, 
twisted at the apex. Stamens 3. Ovules ascending. 
Fuesa; Fueselela (the Sacred Bindweed, the Sun-nooser), refer- 
ring to the legend recorded in Turner’s ‘Nineteen Years in Polynesia,’ 
pp. 248-249 (Hoya sp.)- 
There are at least three species of this in Samoa :— 
1. Beautiful, roundish-oblong, thick leaves, white and pink- 
flowered. The true “ Fuéseléla.” 
9. A yellow-flowered one. Leaves ovate-acuminate. . 
