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TnE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER.^ 



" It is a matter of great interest to ascertain the indigenous fruits. The cocoa-nut, pandanus, 

 cordyline, bread-fruit, and kalo, are in the present list regarded as belonging to this class, although 

 many have supposed the natives transplanted them in their migrations, or that oceanic currents 

 drifted them upon the shores. To the former hypothesis the objection presents itself, that the bread- 

 fruit grows on the island only by cuttings, which could not be preserved for so long a voyage as 

 would be required to come from the nearest land, 1 and the kalo (Colocasia) does not possess much 

 persistent vitality ; to the latter the existing currents would prove an obstacle, as these strike the 

 Hawaiian group from the north-east, bringing huge pine logs from Oregon, but no tropical fruits." 



Ordinal Composition of the Flora of the Sandwich Islands. 



1 See S. B. Dole, Voyages of the Ancient Hawaiians. Hawaiian Club Papers, 1868, p. 4. 



