olonan.

1778 L. Carter Diary 28 Aug. (1965) II. 1147 The decoction of Elona bark had cured numbers of it [sc. nettle-rash].

1784 J. King in J. Cook & J. King Voy. Pacific Ocean III. 319 They have also a finer sort [of fishing-line], which they make of the bark of a shrub named areemah.

1816 A. Campbell Voy. World x. 194 Their nets and lines are spun from the fibre of a broad-leaved plant called Ourana, similar in appearance to sedge or flags.

1875 C. Nordhoff Northern Calif., Oregon, & Sandwich Islands 233 Kapa, a kind of large sheet in which the chiefs dressed themselves, was made of the soaked and beaten bark of several shrubs, such as the wauke, olona, hau, oloa.

1891 W. D. Alexander Brief Hist. Hawaiian People xiv. 91 The ukeke was a strip of flexible wood or bamboo, mounted with two or three strings of olona or of cocoanut fiber.

1903 Sci. Siftings 25 45/1 An aged native fisherman was found using an olona trawl.

1920 Science 10 Sept. 241/2 Whalers in former times paid high prices for olona for making lines for whales.

1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iv. 124 All the necessities of life were available within the ahupuaa, ‘from uka, mountain, whence came wood, kapa, for clothing, olona, for fish-line, ti-leaf for wrapping paper,..[etc.]’.

1994 C. P. Stone & L. W. Pratt Hawai'i's Plants & Animals 251 Olona is a sprawling shrub restricted to rain forests.