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are present.  It is quite damp.  
   On the coral cliffs Heliotropium anomalum and a Euphorbia very similar to E. pitcairnense almost exclude everything else.
    At the tops of the cliffs a low growth of Eugenia rariflora and a form of Timonius (?) sp. are very abundant on the edge, and for a few feet back of this [[strikethrough]] Thespesia populnea [[/strikethrough]]  Timonius sp. and Pisonia grandis make a dense low growth.

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Ipomoea sp. makes tangles over this brush and over the edges of the cliffs
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Back of this is a somewhat more open growth of Pisonia grandis, Pandanus sp., Celtis, Canthium, Timonius (?) in a number of forms, Alynia, Cassia sp., a Bidens 5 m. tall, Santalum Hendersonense, and a number of other trees and shrubs.  Underneath is a tangle of Polypodium sps. x Nephrolepis sps.  Davallia solida and Peperomia.  [[srikethrough]] The Polyps Here [[/strikethrough]]  This extends back at lest a half km. very dense in some places, thinner in others.  The ground in some places is finely pulverized coral, in others

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coarse broken coral, and in others the dissected, sharp, pitted raised coral rock known to the Polynesians as "Makatea."
  It is said that there are deposits of phosphate here.  I did not see any evidences of it.
  Here we found [[strikethrough]] two or three [[/strikethrough]] half a dozen  plants of Cordyline, which is, perhaps, with the [[strikethrough]] Cars [[/strikethrough]] Cocos nucifera on the beach, the only plants introduced by man.

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 The Cocos is said to have been planted by the Pitcairn islanders.  This is likely as the trees are all young.
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The Timonius (?) presents a maze of variations in leaf form, habit of plant, length and shape of corolla, size and shape of fruit and type of inflorescence.  It will bear much investigating.
  The Polypodiums, also, are variable.  Ordinary P. scolopendrium seems to run right into P. Euryphyllum var.
I collected quite a series of these variations, here, as on Pitcairn.
   Besides numerous sea birds - Frigate birds, Boobies, shearwaters, Boatswain