Plant Records from the Caroline Islands, Micronesia: 
Pacific Plant Studies 8 1 
Harold St. John 2 
After the close of active hostilities in the 
Pacific in 1945, the United States Navy made it 
possible for the University of Hawaii to send 
a scientific reconnaissance party into the Caro¬ 
line Islands, even though thousands of Japanese 
military prisoners and a few detachments of 
hostile "hold-out” bands were still there. Plant 
collections were made on Kusaie Island from 
December 24 to 26, 1945; and in the Palau 
Group, on Angaur Island, on January 2, 1946. 
Below are listed the species taken which have 
not previously been recorded from these islands 
or for which the vernacular names used by the 
natives have not been recorded. The specimens 
are deposited in the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 
Plants from Kusaie 
AN GIOPTERID ACE AE 
Angiopteris Beecheyana de Vriese 
A. eve eta sensu Hook, and Grev. non Hoffm., 
fide Hosokawa, Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa, 
Trans. 26: 44, 1936. 
Kusaie Island: divide S. of Lele Harbor, 
St. John 21,440, "taime.” 
OPHIOGLOSSACEAE 
Ophioglossum pendulum L. 
Kusaie Island: divide S. of Lele Harbor, 
St. John 21,443, "karkarweh.” 
1 This is the eighth in a series of papers designed to 
present descriptions, revisions, and records of Pacific 
island plants. The preceding papers were published as 
Bernice P. Bishop Mus., Occas. Papers 17 (7), 1942; 
17 (13), 1943; 18 (5), 1945; Amer. Fern Jour. 35: 
87-89, 1945; Torrey Bot. Club, Bui. 73: 588, 1946; 
Pacific Sci. 1: 116, 1947; Pacific Sci. 2: 96-113, 1948. 
2 Chairman, Department of Botany, University of 
Hawaii. Manuscript received September 1, 1947. 
CYATHEACEAE 
Cyathea nigricans Mett. 
C. affinis sensu Kanehira, non Schrader. 
Kusaie Island: divide S. of Lele Harbor,, 
trunks 8 m. by 2 dm., St. John 21,441, "po.” 
SELAGINELLACEAE 
Selaginella Kanehirae Alston 
Kusaie Island: Yekala Waterfall, St. John 
21,437. 
PANDANACEAE 
Freycinetia ponapensis Mart. 
Kusaie Island: Innemu River, St. John 
21,449, "fuka.” 
HYDROCHARITACEAE 
Thalassia Hemprichii (Ehrenb.) Aschers. 
Kusaie Island: Lele Harbor, in salt water 
1-2 m. deep, and on outer reef, H. St. John 
and H. 1. Fisher 21,433. First record for 
Kusaie, though abundant in the shallow 
water of the harbor. 
LILIACEAE 
Cordyline terminalis (L.) Kunth 
Taetsia fruticosa (L.) Merr. 
Kusaie Island: divide S. of Lele Harbor, in 
moist native forest, St. John 21,442, "ing- 
in-kal.” First record for Kusaie. 
DIOSCOREACEAE 
Dioscorea korrorensis R. Knuth 
Kusaie Island: Lele Island, cultivated, St. 
John 21,433, "ohkani.” First record from 
Kusaie. 
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