other Islands of the Pacific it is abundant; and may be easily 
procured. 
** Other parts of the draczena are also useful. The natives 
frequently plant the roots thickly around their enclosures, 
interweave the stems of the plant, and form a valuable per- 
manent hedge. The branch was always an emblem of peace, 
and in times of war, borne, together with a young plantain 
tree, as a flag of truce, by the messengers who passed between 
the hostile parties. The leaves, wove together by their 
stalks, formed a short cloak, which the natives wore in their 
mountainous journeys; they also make the most durable 
thatch for the sides and roofs of their best houses, are em- 
ployed in constructing their tents in war, and their tem- 
porary abodes during their inland excursions.” 
The specimen from which our drawing was taken was 
furnished by Mr. Lambert, in March 1834. 
It is propagated either by seeds or by truncheons of its 
stem, which when cut down will throw up suckers from its 
base, just as the Asparagus, when its early shoots are de- 
stroyed in the spring, will continue to replace them by fresh 
bourgeons from its bottom. 
