103 ntFFEttENT QVAlVmKS OF WOOD. 



wood ; liala, sweet, i and when young the tree ifi 

 liere of very elegant grtjwth. JU WcJiihala (island 



some of wliich went covered by a profusion of 

 beautiful flowers of a dark-red colour: tlic flowers, 

 however, are often observed to diflcr in colour on 

 the same tree, and even on the same stalk ; tliey 

 gfoir in dnst^, sme b^Tli^ the tmAht ex- 

 ternally of :4ldlirk-red eolonrj and internally of 

 a dull vt'llow ; others having it entirely of a 

 dark-red, and others again Inive the corolla 

 partly red and white externally ; the young 

 Imtm Bffft of a 4arknE«<J eoii«^, Und give an 

 elegant scpp^mm 1^ theti^ fM^ m$ mi 

 observed in the s]>ecie!^ found at the island of 

 Erronianga ; indeed, the species found ;it the; 

 Sandwich Islandti had a more hantUome ap- 



]pimmm^ in iti gemtik ibm tlmt ui Bmitiaikga. 

 At Saadiricli Mm^t two varieties of the 

 wOcmI aire dj^jirifcd ^ihe natives, depeinjiir^ji 



however, only on the no-e of the tree ; the yoiin[p 

 or ^vhite wood is called lau, keo, keo ; (lau, 

 wood ; keo, keo, white ;) and the red wood.^ 

 lawj li))k^ hnla * (lau, wood j litila> livihf teA,) 

 As before iftated, the wood, when taken from a 

 yonnr^ tree, is white, contniidng' luif ;i sinidl 

 (pumtity of oil ; as the tree increases in ^rowth, 

 the wood becomes of a yellowish colour, au<l the 



