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AMORPHOPHALLUS CAMPANULATUS, Blume.—Native name Pia. A very abundant 
plant in the lower portions of the island. 
Many warm climates. 
CoLocasIA ANTIQUORUM, Schott, var. ESCULENTA, Engl.—Native name Taro. Exten- 
sively cultivated by the natives, sometimes in dry ground, but more generally in artificial 
ponds or rather swamps, often of large size. 
Cultivated in most warm climates. 
ALOCASIA MACRORHIZA, Schott.—Native name Kape. Almost as commonly cultivated 
as the foregoing, and often planted on the embankments of the Taro-ponds. The leaves 
sometimes attain an enormous size, one specimen that I measured exceeding 13 feet, 
including the petiole. 
Cultivated in most tropical countries. 
EPIPREMNUM MIRABILE, Schott.—Native name Pikimato. Low-lying places and 
ravines a little distance from the sea, scrambling up the trunks of trees to a 
considerable height. I did not see flowers or fruit, and am indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown 
for the determination. 
Pacifie Islands and northwards to Java. 
CYPERACEZX. 
(I am indebted to Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., for the determination of the species.) 
CYPERUS ROTUNDUS, Linn.—Waste places near Avarua, not seen elsewhere. Perhaps 
introduced only. ; 
A. weed in all warm countries. 
KYLLINGA MONOCEPHALA, hRottb.—Common by the sides of roads, &c., and in the 
eultivations of the natives. 
Pacific Islands, tropical Asia, and Africa. 
MaRISCUS ALBESCENS, Gaud.—Common in moist places, by water-holes, Xe. 
Pacific Islands and tropics of the Old World. 
MARISCUS ALBESCENS, Gaud., var. f. vENTRICOSA, C. B. Clarke.—In similar situations 
to the preceding. 
Sandwich Islands, Tonga, Australia. 
MARISCUS CYPERINUS, Vahl.— Very plentiful in open or shaded, damp or dry places, 
and apparently exceedingly variable. 
Pacific Islands, plentiful. 
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