362 SAMOAN PLANTS AND THEIR VERNACULAR NAMES. 
Popona. A tree, with leaves opposite, a very small, white flower, 
and drupaceous fruit. Called on Manu’a, ** Măea.” 
Pua (Gardeniacea). A dark green, spreading tree, 12 feet high. 
Flowers large, white, fragrant, monopetalous, contorted in æstivation. 
Pu'a (= Puka) ( Hernandia peltata). A large, spreading tree, 20 
feet high. Leaves entire, cordate, subacuminate, peltate, exstipulate, 
alternate, dark, shining green. Flowers corymbose; the flowers 
of each corymb arranged in threes within an involucre of 4 bracts, 
of these three flowers one is pistiliferous and two staminiferous. 
Calyx 4-lobed. Petals 4. Stamens 3 and 4 or 6, abortive, epigy- 
nous. Disk 4-lobed. Style curved. Stigma leafy, flesh-coloured. 
The fruit peculiar, being contained within a large, membranous, or 
rather fleshy, transparent, globular cup. Canoes are often made by 
hollowing out the trunk of this tree. 
uàneva. A twining shrub with opposite ternate leaves, and long 
Pualulu. A large tree. Wood very hard, used by the natives for 
making mallets and wooden adzes, called “To‘ipua.” Flowers mo- 
nopetalous, regular, æstivation imbricate, sweet-scented ; stamens 5, 
alternate with the lobes of the corolla; stigma 2-cleft, flat ; leaf-like. 
Fruit 1- or 2-celled, placenta parietal.— Very much like the Puavao. 
Puapua. See Pua. 
Puapua (Guettarda speciosa). A tree. Leaves opposite, with in- 
terpetiolar stipules. Corolla monopetalous. The fruit contains a 
6-lobed stone, each lobe consisting of 2 wings; the lobes surround a 
bony, concave axis, 
Puapua-lalo-ülu (Labia). A herb. Leaves small, opposite, 
dotted, crenated, in whorls on a roundish or obsoletely square stem. 
Flowers lilac, in terminal racemes. 
Puatiali (Mirabilis Jalappa). A beautiful erimson flower, which 
opens about 4 P.M.  [* Four o'clock ” of the West India colonists.— 
Ep.] Introduced. 
Puavao (Fagrea Berteriana). A tree somewhat spreading, 10-20 
feet high. Leaves Opposite, entire, roundish (many of them halved), 
minutely dotted, coriaceous, on short petioles arising from a thickened 
sheath, which embraces the young stem or common axis, and gives 
it a subjointed appearance. Calyx arising on a stalk from between 
two thick sheathing bracts, thick, tubular, 5-lobed, persistent, imbri- 
