SAMOAN PLANTS AND THEIR VERNACULAR NAMES. 365 
Taitaiipo. A tree with opposite exstipulate leaves. 
Táláfálü (Mieromelum minutum). A small tree. Branches slender, 
somewhat spreading. Leaves shining, green, alternate, exstipulate, 
minutely dotted. The stamens appear more hypogynous than peri- 
gynous; the disk upon which they are inserted, however, has a 
perigynous appearance ; they are not inserted in the calyx, but both 
the petals and stamens are inserted upon the disk, which is persistent ; 
the ovules, 1-2, are pendulous. Ovary like a twisted leaf. Placenta 
central, its dissepiments appear like twisted leaves, whose outer edges 
unite with the sides of the ovary, and form several cells. Fruit a 
berry, filled with contorted green leaves. Epicarp red, very full of oily 
cists, and beneficial in a skin disease called the “ manemane.” A 
tincture made from these berries has a peculiar and powerful odour, 
in a diluted form useful in phthisis ; mixed with water, it assumes a * 
milky appearance. 
Talie (Terminalia, sp. pl.). Shrubs and small and large trees. 
Two or three species or varieties. “ Talieula (the necklace Talie), 
the kind from which necklaces are made ; Taliefoagia (the Talie that is 
cracked), “the kind whose fruit is eaten," teste Pratt. The former is 
probably T. littoralis, the latter T. Catappa. i 
Tamanu. The timber of this tree is durable, and rather paler than 
Red Cedar, but very different from that of the tree which goes by the 
same name in Tahiti (the “ Fetau” of Samoa). - 
Tamole (Portulaca quadrifida). A pretty yellow-flowered weed, 
procumbent, creeping. Leaves alternate, dotted. Stipules woolly. 
Calyx superior, composed of two thin sepals united at the base. Co- 
rolla monopetalous, but having its 5 lobes slit down to the base, 
giving it the appearance of a 5-petalled corolla. Stamens epigynous. 
Ovary inferior, crateriform, crowned by an operculum. tyles 6, con- 
nate. Stigmas 6, curved downwards. This is called also “ Fiafiatuli.” 
Tamole (Cinchonacea). Small herbaceous plant 4-9 in. high, erect. 
Stem square, rounded at the sides, flat front and back. Leaves with 
largely developed interpetiolar stipules, smooth, entire, minutely 
dotted. Fruit a 2-celled capsule, many-seeded. This plant is used 
medicinally by the natives of Tonga in pains of the head and fever. . 
The Samoans often call it by the name of ** Tamole-vai," which pro- 
perly belongs to another plant, viz. :— 
Tamole-vai (Limnophila menthastrum). A swamp plant. Leaves 
